With Travel Restrictions Falling Almost Monthly,

some tourist are starting to hunt for destinations with some danger attached,

I posted a couple of them here, well here is another dangerous site to go on holiday to, Vozrozhdeniya was once an isolated island in the Aral Sea. Today, it’s a wasteland infused with tonnes of anthrax, as well as other exotic and deadly diseases, a salty-sand wasteland where temperatures frequently reach 60 degrees Celsius and signs of life are scarce to non-existent. But you know what’s worse than a salt-covered wasteland – a salt-covered wasteland infused with anthrax and a plethora of other exotic diseases that the Soviet Union experimented with for years, that’s what makes Vozrozhdeniya one of the deadliest places in the world, how dangerous? for years, Aralsk-7 was part of a national biological weapons program and was used as a testing site for anthrax, smallpox, the plague as well as diseases like tularemia, brucellosis, and typhus, all of which seeped into the sandy soil, In 1971, a young scientist fell ill after her research vessel went through a brownish haze close to the island. She was diagnosed with small pox, despite being vaccinated against the disease, and she ended up infecting nine other people, three of whom died. A year later the corpses of two missing fishermen were found floating in their boat near the island. They had apparently died of the plague,

stories of locals drawing in nets full of dead fish abound in the area around Vozrozhdeniya, and in May of 1988, 50,000 saiga antelope which had been grazing on a nearby steppe famously dropped dead in about an hour, of mysterious causes. Its reputation is so notorious that ever since the former island – now 10 times its former size and connected to the mainland – was evacuated in the 1990s, only a handful of expeditions have been organized, if all of this does not put you off of visiting take anthrax as an example, its spores are notoriously hard to kill and can survive underground for hundreds of years, being washed in disinfectant and roasted at 180 degrees Celsius doesn’t seem to trouble the spores either, luckily, Vozrozhdeniya is not the most accessible place in the world. You’d need someone to guide you there, and the people of the area know to stay away, also there is the present trouble to contend with, but then that would make it an even more dangerous holiday!