I Went Inside India's Mysterious Meteorite Crater
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2024
- I trekked down to India's mysterious meteorite crater. See what's down there and why NASA visited it! It's attracted scientists from around the world due to its strange characteristics and anomalies, which I'll show you as I trek down to the base. This is Lonar Lake in the state of Maharashtra.
Tour guide was Amol Sardar +91 997 544 7088. This video was not sponsored.
Lonar Lake is a natural saltwater lake in Maharashtra, India, formed 52,000 years ago due to a meteorite impact. It is located within the Lonar crater and is known for its unique ecological features.
The lake is saline, alkaline, and supports diverse microorganisms.
It attracts scientists, researchers, and tourists interested in astrobiology and the origin of life.
Lonar Lake is also culturally significant, mentioned in ancient texts and surrounded by temples and archaeological sites. It is protected as the Lonar Wildlife Sanctuary.
If you want to do this same trip, you can stay at the nearby MTDC Resort in Lonar, and you'll find multiple guides there. I've made a video reviewing this hotel too • India's Best $32 Hotel... .
00:00 Going inside a meteorite crater
00:15 Things get weird quickly!
00:50 What are we going to see?
01:23 How was Lonar Lake created?
02:55 Why is Lonar special?
4:34 Beautiful running step well
08:11 Incredible temple tour (Kumareshwar Mandir)
13:26 Why do scientists come to Lonar?
14:14 Special stargazing temple (Sri Yagyeshwar Mandir)
16:14 Jungle trek
18:45 A lady forgot her shoes!
21:54 Arriving at the lake
23:09 Testing the lake's water
24:56 Scientific theories about Lonar Lake
26:40 The soil's magnetic power
28:49 Ancient Indian step well and temple
32:20 Compass-breaking magnetism inside temple
33:44 Should you visit Lonar Lake?
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This was one of the most interesting places I've ever visited! Are you going to go?
I stayed at a Govt. run hotel right on the crater, which was the opposite experience of this, watch it next th-cam.com/video/u3RC4Tt0ezs/w-d-xo.html.
Tour guide was Amol Sardar +91 997 544 7088. This video was not sponsored (I've never ever done one actually!).
I missed this man, I live nearby this place if I would have known you are coming I would love to meet you there. I really missed this time man. Let me know next time you come here
I am loving your traveling.. and India has beautiful hidden gems... It's lovely to hear you and your wife have little giggles along the way too x
I had been twice at this place on my way to nagpur...but couldn't explore like Karl....been up to first shiva temple in summer and had child water...❤ u Karl for this unseen footages 😊
Loved this. More of such videos please. Thanks!
Hello Karl, you have done a great job. I know about lonar lake from my childhood but never saw any exploring videos about it. Also Amol's phone number will be a great help for me. I hope to visit there sometime. Great going.
He's an amazing guide with multi-faceted knowledge about culture, history, science, and wildlife. Always wanted to go to Lonar! Thanks for the great video!
I've just added his details to the pinned comment so others can travel with him too.
Science?😂
@Nomad_Wanderer yes science
lick
Fantastic guide!
Very interesting video. Had no idea there was a crater this size in India.
I can imagine you coming back home after a long day of work of f-ing off scammers in my city of Kolkata, sitting down, having a beer and a pizza watching Karl's vlog but I still can't see your face. When I try hard, it just comes as blurred 😶
There are lots of things in India that you don't know, apart from the scammers who you bust 😅
This is a huge country, and it's really diverse and beautiful. You can call India a Europe of the East.
@@anootoshsarkar686yes
Hes solving the ugly crisis of India and you are balming him?.......Well and there is not enough info for you to judge that he judges India@@anootoshsarkar686
@@anootoshsarkar686you are wrong. There are many times he praised India in his video. He also knows a decent amount about modern India. He definitely doesn’t think India is full of scammers
Love from Tamil Nadu... for our Maratha Brothers
Wow, Lonar is my hometown, I'm really glad that someone like Karl got to see the crater, there are so many legends around this one.. and I must say one of the most underrated places in India, If you ever go to the place take a walk around the whole crater its really an amazing experience, you'll encounter some monkeys, peacocks and various kinds of insects and birds, the smell is bit horrid but some locals take a dive in it as its holy place, there are many ancient temples around and as I said many legends associated to them.
Fun Fact: In 2020 around peak of the Summer the water of the crater turned pink due to the low levels, it was lockdown but we still managed to go there and witnessed pink amazing crater..!
If you dont mind, can you talk about some of the legends? also it turned pink due to low air pollution?
@@Sridarsh nope bcz of bacteria it's colured changed into pink
Yes legends reveal some scientific truths also
It has been assumed that the absence of rain, less human interference (owing to lockdown) and high temperature resulted in the evaporation of water which increased its salinity and pH and
due to a large presence of the salt-loving 'Haloarchaea' microbes. The colour of the lake water turned pink
@@Sridarshit turned pink due to algae or microbes.
India just keeps giving gems thanks to Karl and Manisha we get to see them all what an amazing country India really is much love and respect from England
Can’t wait to visit India again in December
Come India
Communicate me
But u guys from england tried to destroy us but God has other plans😂. India is emerging as a power now
hopefully India will stop giving us scammers other then that interesting country nice people and awesome food
@@abhishekarya5685under totaltarian dictatorship
This is incredible India!
Should get Praveen Mohan to investigate these ancient temples.
I am staying just 200 km from Lonar Lake. I have always planned to visit it but somehow was never able to.
Taking inspiration from your video now I will definitely visit it..
@jaytemkar8077 “Just” 200km? That seems pretty far to me!
@@Sniperboy5551 Lol..Carl Bhai visited the crater from Delhi (1400 km away) comparatively I am quite near to Lonar. For me it is 3-4 hrs ride only..
IKMKB is more incredible 🎉
The info provided by the Guide made the video more interesting. I recommend taking local tour guides whenever possible as they add so much value to the places you visit.
Geological Survey of India needs to protect and curate this site far better. This is a national treasure.
Feels proud seeing Amol (my friend's brother) representing my town :)
SEETA TIME THERE WAS NO SOAP SANDLES ETC.OTHERWISE BRAHMAN SHOW U HERE LEFTEVER SOAP BY SEETA AFTER BATH.OR HEEL SANDLES LEFT BY SEETA😅😅😅😅
As a science enthusiast, this vlog was amazing! I loved the little crumbs of knowledge the guide threw in, and the sites of the ancient temples awoke in me a strange sense of nostalgia
What nostalgia are you 500 years old
@@mayankify ........that's why I called it strange, dude, I felt nostalgia even though I've never lived in that era
@@zzzzzzhhhhh678 same same , it felt to home , so familiar , so many memories yet none
I'm from India but live in California. Had heard of this place but didn't know anything more than the fact that it was a lake created by the impact of a meteorite. Watched this video with my thirteen year old son who is an avid traveler and loves geography and science.
We both enjoyed the scientific, geographical, historic and mythological aspect of Lonar, so well explained by Amolji.
Thanks for this gem of a video, Karl! Please continue introducing us to such little known places.
Coz your main focus was not explore india. Your main focus to leave india as soon as possible. Its funny we have foreigners exploring india more whereas indians just leave and serve other countries 😅
Visit my place
@@silvershroud6263 My middle class parents in India were only interested in getting me, their younger daughter, married off and the only other option I got was when one of the campuses of the Univ of California awarded me an International Student Fellowship (full tuition + TA/RA position) to do my PhD there. So basically I got paid by a world class university to study and do my research. Why would I not take that opportunity?
Har har mahadev ❤
I've been there many times
Mind Boggling place India is.. When i think about ancient India, it blows my mind, Back then how rich & advance our culture were. And some of parts in mythology are in ongoing research which is quite fascinating. If ruler weren't invent us, Places like these should have been world treasures. I felt bad for my Country actually. "Good Documentary".
Gorgeous! This is a million times better than great wall of China.
That's just a wall with do damn sunlight... Nothing to see there.. Go.. Click photo, come back.. Nothing to enjoy there
I think Maharashtra Gov. Should make him A Brand Ambassador for Maharashtra Tourism ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I'm amazed that there's so few people enjoying such a beautiful historic site. It looks like you had the whole place to yourselves.
I am glad it's unexplored and their are no bihari bhaiyyas littering everywhere. Stay away from maharashtra
@@PriyaK-cu1fzexactly , we people from ranchi are also fedup of these biharis
@@why-pu6on everyone in india is
@@PriyaK-cu1fzthe whole north likes littering and red red pan spits
people only know about tajmahal
Incredible India ehh! Absolutely amazing, incredible. Been with you on your journeys for quite a while now Karl through the town's and cities of India, Pakistan etc but this content right here, you and your wife touring all the ancient sites, the sites etc mentioned in the Mahabharata and other ancient texts is literally just mind blowing for me! There is so much of humanities history hidden from us especially in the west but not in India as most of these ancient sites mentioned in the ancient texts have been preserved and can be brought back to life by just visiting them. Thanks so much you guys 🙏 💞 much love from Ireland 🇮🇪
Har har mahadev❤
I THINK LAST ONE BUDDIST TEMPLE I SEEN THERE PHOTO ONLY MONK BUDDIST.
Absolutely loved this format of video. Love seeing Karl and Mani trekking about.
Karl always rocks ❤
Always
Thank you Bhai! I see you're a fellow COMPSCI nerd like me ☺️
@@KarlRock Thanks Karl, I am living in Bari, Italy. Please visit Italy also sometime.
i watch his scam exposed videos every week it's so entertaining to me
Quite Literally this time 😂😂
Fantastic job Amol, you really give people their money's worth! Examples, knowledge, and citing sources on top of being so chill!
India is a mini world. You will find desert, snow caped mountain, forest, valleys, ancient cites, lots of things. India is a place of varied nature. Always feel proud to be part of this holy land. 🇮🇳🇮🇳
Karl, you didn't have to worry about an attack cause the cameraman ALWAYS survives!
😂😂😂
Never knew this existed in India. Incredible!! Reminds me of the Uncharted game.
Uncharted the lost legacy is based on INDIA.
Such mysteries are all over the place. Google Praveen Mohan and look at some of his earliest videos. Ignore the later ones
I had not heard of this place and yet it seems so familiar. Every bit of it felt familiar, like I have been there before, lived there as a small girl in another life or something (and, no, I haven’t played any video games as you mentioned). It just felt so familiar. Wild and beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Sweet:)
A deja vu.
Hahah
What a fantastic guide - amazing enthusiasm given he's probably done this 10000 times.. Kudos.
Karl, this was so cool! I had no idea this existed. Thank you so much for sharing some of the beauty and history of India.
I didn’t know either and Im an Indian😅
Har har mahadev ❤
All I saw was crater pictures here and there, and I never knew there was so much going on around the crater and nearby places. Thanks for the video. I learnt a lot.
Haven't visited lonar even though I live in Maharashtra. That's really sad. Had read about it in school textbook. But now I will definitely visit.
The Guide looks damn Informed.. Would love to see guys like him in more tourist hit places
Thank you for sharing this incredible place Karl & Manisha
I was in Kerala & Goa in 2019 staying with friends but would have loved to have travelled more of these Ancient Sites 🙏🏻
Lemme tell ya, trekking through Lonar Lake in good ol' Maharashtra is like taking a wild ride in your own time machine! Picture this: you're stompin' through the ancient, rugged terrain, and suddenly, boom, you're surrounded by this mind-boggling, jaw-droppin' meteorite-formed lake that's been chillin' there for a cool 52,000 years. It's like Mother Nature herself decided to throw in a twist, giving you a glimpse of the past that's so darn epic, even my flashy billboards couldn't compete!
What the hell you want to say..m just say it normally and formally... what's the problem with you to speak in this way😂 genz
What
Wow, Karl that place is amazing. Terrifying to think something so large hit the earth. Love your videos and vibe. Much love and respect from Scotland
Loved this trekking vlog Karl!
Please make more videos visiting these ancient heritage sites. Lots of love and success to you and your wife 🙏🏻
I found this to be one of your most interesting videos Karl - absolutely fascinating! Not related, but could you visit the Barabar Caves one day?
Thanks, I'm really surprised by the feedback. I'll do some more in-depth vlogs like this. It really needs an incredible location like this. I'm gonna do some long 90 minute vlogs later this year... just gotta edit em! It's a big job.
Well I look forward to seeing what you plan later@@KarlRock ! (my vote is Barabar Caves - intriguing with a lot of mystery as to how they could have been made with such perfection!)
Theres plenty like this in south India with old mysteries and ancient temples
Yove got to visit south India more - karnataka ,kerala and tamil nadu
greatest mysterious site in the world is also in Maharashtra. it is the Kailasa Temple of Sambhaji Nagar.
That's coming up in the next vlog
@@KarlRockwaiting for it ❤
Yeappp Giant Monolithic Temple and cave carvings done by Rashtrakutas ❤️
Amazing and beautiful!!!
Thanks for taking viewers to unknown places of India. ❤
This is possibly one of your best & most interesting vlogs! What a fascinating place! Thanks for sharing this experience with us!
What a wonderful place. Just as you said it reminded you of the video game I said the same thing. I love your tours Karl. What a great guide.
Thanks for exploring this place. Many people in Maharashtra itself might have not visited here .
I hope we realise we have all the things in India itself. Let's promote and support local tourism first
Gapp aai ghaalya. Bapacha nahi tujha maharashtra. Aala motha bhaiyya invite karaayla yad zava
I am afraid we will go spit and litter pee everywhere and talk loudly ruining the place. On the other hand, govt cant even provide a clean bedsheet.
This is incredible!!! Need more of such lesser known amazing information and places. The guide was really really good, wish all guides were this good in India! ❤️
Awesome travel vlog, with a faint touch of documentary, presented in the most sublime manner by my bro Karl. 😊❤
Really interesting "documentary", Karl! Not only the nature is beautiful there, but also the religious part related to the temples and the scientific part related to the meteorite and the transformation of the area, with the different magnetic field. It was almost like being there, although being there would be amazing.
Yep, he covered all things and feelings, complete package
Wonderful video, thanks both of you for sharing so much interesting information and the rawness of it all. The temple was stunning.
Maharashtra is full of such beautiful sights! Glad you two had such a good time visiting the crater and Lonar Lake. When you're back in Mumbai, do visit the beautiful new Nita and Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre. It's incredible. Greetings to you both. Jai Hind and Kia Kaha!🙏
Har har mahadev 🕉
Its always so sad to see such beautiful temples being completely in ruins and destroyed. Oh what could have been and what would have been !!!!
India is full of wonders.. Never ending sights..❤
Spell-binding! An amazing video and an amazing guide! India can do with more such people! Keep it up!👍🙏
Karl, more videos like this please. I really enjoyed watching it!
Welcome to maharashtra , the land of great warriors !❤❤
Love seeing the majestic ruins and crater! Love all your videos ❤
How I wish I had a 'love the video' button on TH-cam - this was absolutely amazing! Kudos Karl and thanks so much for sharing this video...
Just when i was going to ask if you could post the guide's name... i see that you already have. Excellent job - Amol!
Good to see Amol here. He's one of the best guides I have met in India!
Amazing scenery, a lot of history shown here, thanks. :)
Finally someone is exploring Vidarbha region.
Thanks karl and please visit places nearby amaravati, nagpur, chandrapur, bhandara gondia and jabalpur in madhya pradesh
Vidarbha has also blessed with best national park.
Very nice,. Thank you for uploading this I had read / heard about this crater long back. Your video is the next best to an actual visit.
I loved this video. Very real, easy and fun to watch you two! 😍 and also because I have been wanting to go to Lonar crater for a long time, staying in Bombay. But the guide really helped to explain things well so now makes me want to go there. And the “hain na”, “chalo” are soo endearing!
Wow! I would love to see Lonar Lake for myself one day!
You welcome
Wow Thanks Karl For showing this I have never seen something like this before so cool i would not want to go down there alone either amazing place thanks so very much for taking us along with you enjoy this ..Much Love from Canada
Hello Carl!
I saw many of your blogs, but this is extra ordinary. Thanks 🙏
Awesome, extraordinary video, very informative, never knew this part of Ancient India, thank you very much for exploring Ancient places, it's a rare masterpiece video !!!
Nice video Karl!
I think at 8:52 he mentioned that the 2nd part is the vimana marg (aeroplane passage)/ anataral (space) that connects the Earth area (ritual area) and the heaven area (for the deity).
The guide's knowledge is encyclopedic and covers such a range of knowledge domains!
Glad you had such a knowledgeable guide, i ignored the myth and took in the scientific stuff, never would have figured it out by myself. Awesome video, loved it. Generally i hate guides, first time loved it due to abundance of knowledge and route taken..
'Mythical Stories" along with science creates a mysterious spiritual experience...otherwise everything is just plain old fact..kind of soulless
It is the MYTHOLOGY which make it more interesting and intriguing
Beautiful video and wonderfully guided by Mr. Amol ji. Just a small addition on magnetosomes, they are not microorganisms, MAgnetosomes are actually membranous organelles found in magnetotactic bacteria found in these regions. These organelles help in sequestering iron in it, biomineralize this iron to magnetic crystals or nanoparticles. Its really very interesting to study. The pink colour change that had occurred in Lonar lake was due to a group of microorganisms called 'Haloarchaea' , which produced pink pigment and which are salt loving, as its shown here that the pH is highly alkaline. I had missed a chance to visit Lonar lake when I was around, would have loved to learn more about the microbiology of the place but couldn't come here as I had to leave for some other work, but hope to visit this place once. Great video!!!
I'm just 100 kms away from lonar but never had been there. Your video awake me to visit the place...
So informative...
Thank you
makes me want to visit this place the next time I visit India. Terrific. these places must be marketed more . Deserves to be on the highlights
Maharashtra is incredible, not been marketed well, I m from Maharashtra but never went to many amazing places of historic importance.
This guide you had is incredibly knowledgeable. WOW. Love it.
Karl, Excellent video/tour of LONAR LAKE ! First question to my mind, where did they quarry all that stone used for building, etc. ? From the crater itself ? Also, where did the all/most of these workers come from ? Amazing !! Thank you both for sharing, and all the best from the U.S.
Ancient Indian Kings used to have superhuman beings like oversized intelligent animals, called as 'Yaksha, Gandharvas, Naagas' ... they used to serve the kings and build huge temples with precision, they never used to come out in open... in India they still have the remains of their bastions in many places as they were employed by different dynasties
They probably had a great network of ferrying things around be it goods, construction material or maybe people as well. Who knows the town that has settled nearby had been settled for that actual purpose but people just forget that fact or the documentation got destroyed in a course of time.
Its mostly carved out of rock, or the rock is moved from nearby in the crater itself.
If that was the case their skeletons would have been found and they would have had their offsprings living with us today. Just pause and think what you are saying. To achieve this superhuman strength is not necessary - Pulley system, knowledge of mechanical engineering and architecture is necessary. Another very important thing is the vision of the kings - to harness water and create step wells for the people. It's a work of intelligence, not brute strength. @@samayvyateet
If that was the case their skeletons would have been found and they would have had their offsprings living with us today. Just pause and think what you are saying. To achieve this superhuman strength is not necessary - Pulley system, knowledge of mechanical engineering and architecture is necessary. Another very important thing is the vision of the kings - to harness water and create step wells for the people. It's a work of intelligence, not brute strength. @@samayvyateet
Amazing. India keeps on surprising!🎉
Yaay! My hometown. Back in the days I used to see a lot of ISRO and NASA delegates at the site.
well i woke up at 7.30 uk time and instantly wanted to go to India beautiful thanks karl
Thanks for watching!
I have never heard of any other place where history, mythology, extraterrestrial, Geological and paranormal stuffs all exist simultaneously.
The guide is so knowledgeable. From mythology to history to scientific research, he knows all salient features of this place.
My father is the in charge for Lonar Crater Development Authority and the dept didn't knew you were coming if they knew they would've done special arrangements for you to view the crater more efficiently coz being a youtuber you are definitely promoting the place for more and more tourists to come which would def boost the tourism of the place so next time he would be happy to help and make special arrangements for you !!
That place is gorgeous. It's amazing you had it all to yourselves.
Thank you Karl for this interesting video. I've been looking for it ever since you said you would make it, following my previous comment. Very interesting!
Kamran
The guide was absolutely great... Indepth details and had clarity... Hope we meet similar guides during travel...
Didn’t even know this place existed. Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome. Please visit soon.
Your tour guide needs a separate TH-cam channel of his own. 😄That guy is so knowledgeable! Anyway, interesting video. Just a request, carry some torches next time you visit any ancient site. The first temple was so dark, we could see nothing.
All phones have torches. They didnt light it out of respect.
@@raiideas Where did respect come in this? 😂 Phone flash lights are not focused light, try using a phone flash inside a dark room you will know!
While visiting ancient monuments, usually the tour guide carries torch light with them. That is what I was talking about.
@@YourEducationSaathiYou're right anyone who has lived in a remote place knows the difference between a torch and a phone flash 😂.
Thank you for this video, Lunar added to my check list.... Amezing guide and great efforts by Karl and Manu....
Thank you again 💞
Karl, very interesting video. Thanks for sharing this video with your viewers. 👍👍👍👍
Namaste Karl, I think the bug was a millipede and amazing adventure. I liked the waterfall
It is a millipede. Goes into a tight coil when threatened
Thanks Maya! You can tell I'm a city slicker hehe
The guide should prepare for upsc😊
amazing video; i love how passionate and enthusiastic the guide was
thanks for taking us there karl and manisha :)
Dear Karl
Good to see you showing the positive side of India ..Love to meet you someday. BEST WISHES
Intriguing ! would definitely do that trek....beautiful
Pretty scary to see so many of these massive craters from thousands of years ago. makes me worried about what the impact of something this huge would be today. I never heard of this one.
Hi Karl this was an amazing vlog--superb; thanks to your wife and the guide......simply awesome.
What an informative video! Thanks to the guide and Karl 🙏
Maybe the shoes are all that is left from a tiger attack ! Thanks for touring this area for me, because I would never do it myself !
Haha, I wish I was witty enough to think of that during the vlog!
WOW! How absolutely gorgeous! What a magical beautiful place! ❤
The guide was talking pure science and history of the place.. Amazing..
Very informative and interesting video. But the guide is quite knowledgeable. Really liked the video!
I also visited Lonar Crater and the guide was him. He told us many scientific things about this crator. There are 15 temples in the Lonar and the carvings on those temples gives you idea of our Ancient India. I saw one carving in which woman wear fashionable dress with goggle.
The largest meteorite crater is in India and this is the first time I am seeing it ! Many thanks.
Great video! Sooo interesting and also slightly terrifying watching y'all walk thru the jungle lolll
Thank you! This was fascinating, hope to visit one day and have such a great guide too.
Thank you both for sharing this excellent video 👍🏆, that was so interesting, the Temples are so fascinating, the work that must've gone in to the build and the craftsmanship, Truly Wonderful ❤ Naughty Karl😲 for not telling your wife about the 🐆🐅🐂🦚 if it had been me, you would've seen me for dust 😂❤