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Huacachina is a tiny town in southern Peru, an hour away from the Pacific coast. The town is a collection of resorts and restaurants around a blue-green laguna surrounded by huge sand dunes. One can sand board there and ride in a four-wheel-drive dune buggy. 

Legend claims every year a mermaid living in the laguna takes one man.The legend stems from the yearly drownings. People speculate that the cause of the frequent drownings is swimmers muscles cramp when the warm water on the top of the oasis mixes with cooler water below. (Source) 

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The Initiation Well in Sintra, Portugal 

Quinta da Regaleira, the estate where this well or “inverted tower” is 27 meters deep, and just like the rest of the estate it is packed with symbolic references to cosmology, alchemy, and mythology (mostly roman and greek), and perhaps even mentions to freemasonry. The gardens are huge and constantly well-kept, and are the best and biggest part of the 2-3 hour visit.

The owner of the estate as we now know it was 1800’s Carvalho Monteiro, who on the last floor of his palace actually had a secret door that led to his alchemy lab. He commissioned the Italian architect Luigi Manini to design pretty much all there is in his estate, and Manini did a splendid job, everything being thought out in an astonishingly detailed manner. There are waterfalls from which you can walk behind the falling water, lots of grottos and manmade tunnels to explore, majestic towers,and  beautiful fountains. 

One can reach the bottom of the Initiation Well after walking for a good 5-10 minutes below ground in near absolute darkness, although they recently installed some ambient lights down there. (Source)

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