It takes just an hour to get to The Valley of Geysers
from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski by helicopter.
Beneath hills mounds, silver river threads, desert mountain dales are passing in the curly green.
As on the map the panorama from the Pacific Ocean with white waves lace to lifeless,
bristling menacing pointed cogs of mountains.
The helicopter flies round volcanoes Karymsky and Malyl Semyachik.
The valley of the river Shumnaya meets tourists with black steep rocks, bands of waterfalls.
And canyon itself is yellow outcrops of slopes, meandering river on the
bottom - the river Geysernaya - steamy grounds, white splashes of streams.
Geysers stretch out almost for 5 km along the stream of the river Geysernaya,
beginning from "Firstling" and to upper geysers on the waterfall "Troynoy".
Geysers take up a special position among hot springs
Their calm periods change with periods of stormy activity, every geyser has its own periodicity of activity
This phenomenon is both beautiful and rare.
There are large geysers only in Iceland, Yellowstone park in the USA, and in New Zealand.
But The Valley of Gaysers has no equal in beauty and loftiness of the landshaft
and in number of gathered together flowing springs on the limited territory.
Variety of forms and colors of the Valley of Geysers
is created not only with intricate rocks and precipices, flora,
streams of the water and steam, waterfalls, geyserite cones,
but also with thermophile algae and bacteria, developing everywhere, where at least one water jet appears.
You will never find two similar geysers.
"Troynoy" is famous for its grey brown colour geyserite and three gryphon.
"Sakharny" is like a huge flower of lily. "Bolshoy" has the highest fountain. "Maly" is the most powerfull
in the Valley in quantity of streaming water for 24 hours.
"Velican" strikes with its grandiosity.
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Combination of many natural conditions: forms and depths of subterranean
canals, pressure, tributary/ confluent of cold water, overheat steam is necessary for hot spring to gush.
Geysers' activity depends mainly on the quantity of surface/superficial water,
for example atmospheric precipitates, pouring into bosom/ entrails.
Separating from abyssal centre steam and gas heat them.
When boiling water streams through fissures rush into the surface with fountains.
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