DALHALLA!It's a place, not a thing. It's a composite word that comes from "Valhalla", which is the old Norse concept of heaven and "Dalarna" the province of Sweden where it is situated and it's probably the coolest place I will ever see a concert in my life.
It's an outdoor concert stage, built in 1993 at the bottom of an old limestone quarry that was carved into the ridge of a meteorite crater formed over 370 million years ago.
I'm sitting there listening to Elvis Costello with Allen Toussaint and his band in a perfect sound environnement, looking at the various layers of old earth crust and fossils that are oblique instead of horziontal due to the force of impact and the reflections on the walls and light off the emerald green lake behind the stage and my jaw is just hanging.......
It a must see again, for sure.
I mean this is wicked! I saw a great concert in a an outdoor amphitheater with walls full of fossils in one of only three visible Earth craters......damn that was SO cool!
Here's some info for y'all.....
Size: Europe’s largest meteorite impact site – and one of the world’s largest
Diameter: 75 km
Shape: Ring-shaped crater with circular central plateau
Meteorite diameter: 2.5 km at impact
Meteorite speed: 15 km/sec at impact
Energy released at impact: Equivalent to c. 500 million atomic bombs
Depth: from crater rim top to lake bottom: over 400m
Check out the official site for pix, slide show, movie and info:
http://www.dalhalla.se/
And the Dalarna Tourism page for it
http://www.dalarna.se/kulturidalarna/eng/dalhalla.html
1 comment:
Man! This would be worth a trip to Sweden al by itslef!!!!!
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