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Sunday, October 18, 2015

The Coolest City On Earth Where You Can Not Wear Glasses Outside








Have you heard of a city where you can not stay outside more than 20 minutes? Unless you are very much fond of ice and want to become an iceman yourself. Yes, such a place exists on globe which literary can give you chills.
The place is named as Yukutsk, the capital city of Sakha Russia. This place is only 280 miles away from Artic circle. The city is very beautiful but very cold. Here the temperature ranges from minus 5C, at which the cold is invigorating and a light hat and scarf can do the job of keeping you warm, to minus 20C, where your nose starts sneezing, and you suffocate against the cold air. As the temperature increases your exposed skin get numb and you can suffer from frost bite.
You can not wear glasses here because the metal will stick to your cheeks and will take some chunks of flesh with it when you decide to remove them. The blanket of freezing fog will impair your visibility to 20 to 30 feet. Here you have frozen soil underneath your feet.
Even making pictures is a tough job here as you are unable to feel your fingers after a while, your camera gets blocked blocked in 10 minutes. The city is not only rich in fog but a center for extracting diamond. Another interesting fact about the city is that in January, there are only 3 hours of daylight per day.

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