Aussichtspunkt Tagebau Hambach — Attraction in Elsdorf

It's like a German Grand Canyon. It's so strange, that you have no idea it's there until you get to the edge and then your brain struggles to comprehend just how vast it is.

I'd have liked to have flown my drone closer to the machines but the weather was bad and I wasn't sure if they'd allow me to do this.

The reasons behind mining lignite like this are unpopular with some, and controversial with others, but there is no denying the fact that if men and women are determined enough, pretty much anything...

Hey everyone....so this was a bomb, even though the weather was not very kind to me and I was only marginally walking... there are few places and you never have a chance to see something like this... kilometers of stretching strips of rubble, big machines, smiling workers... the workers themselves built several rest areas or observation towers in the past... it is surface mining of brown and black coal, but you can read more information from...

If you want to witness a horrifyingly large hole in the ground, look no further. It's a great place to witness the sheer amount of destruction we humans can achieve when we really give it our best. The scale of this monument our need to rip out natural resources has created is as close to Lovecraftian horror as we can come. The huge mining machines, relentlessly clawing at the soil, are quite a sight to behold. Would...