Amazing chalk quarries - Belarus captivates the hearts of tourists

Located on the intersection of trade routes, which keeps the "heart" of Europe, blue-eyed Belarus is one of the most beautiful countries of the former Soviet Union. Having a miniature size and population of about 10 million, White Russia, as its inhabitants call it, is famous for its fantastic landscapes, forests and lakes. Knowingly Belarus was nicknamed blue-eyed: over 3 thousand lakes and about 4 thousand rivers, like veins, pass through the country, giving fresh water to its numerous inhabitants, feeding meadows and fields, supplying production.

Rest on the banks of the republic's reservoirs is very popular not only among its residents, but also among tourists from near and far abroad. Travelers will not be disappointed by the beauty of the natural landscapes that surround Braslav Lakes, Lake Naroch or Cretaceous open-cast mines. Belarus is rich not only in natural reservoirs - artificial reservoirs play an important role in fish farming and industry. To such water reservoirs are also chalk quarries. In Belarus, in the Grodno region, Volkovysk district, near the urban village of Krasnoselsk, the chalk quarries are amazingly beautiful. There may be a question about how the careers can be amazing, the more Cretaceous?

Previously, chalk was mined in this area, then, when the groundwater came to the surface, the quarries were abandoned and proceeded to mining elsewhere. As a result of the activities of the miners, the water bodies have become breathtakingly beautiful, the bottom of which is covered by a chalky rock.

Exquisite, azure-turquoise, crystal clear water fills the chalk quarries. Belarus, famous for the whole world ecotourism, will soon add to the list of its attractions and developed tourism in these waters. A distinctive feature of quarries is the absence of any representatives of flora and fauna: since the bottom is covered with chalk, organisms can not live and develop.

The water filling these ponds is not always turquoise: time and laws of chemistry make amazing azure colors into the familiar blue-green color of water, which is filled with all the old chalk quarries. Belarus is a large chalk extractor, therefore, the developed quarries in the country are darkness. Particularly pleasing to tourists are those reservoirs in which the extraction of white powder has just ended: the residual amount of chalk makes it possible to give the water a rich bright turquoise color.

What can not be said about water is that it is warm. By no means: the underground waters filling the reservoirs, together with a fairly large depth, make the ponds a truly refreshing place.

Official bathing is prohibited here due to the lack of the necessary minimum of beach equipment, which makes the chalk quarries even more attractive. Belarus is always happy with the influx of tourists. She is happy to tell and show her memorable and historical places: Khatyn and Dalvu, Nesvizh and Polotsk, Naroch and Braslav Lakes, Silichi and Logoysk ski complexes, and now the Grodno chalk quarries are glad to welcome tourists to the edge of potatoes, forests and Lakes.