Pitch Lake (Asphalt)

We toured Trinidad's natural wonder, Pitch Lake, which is one of only three that exist in the world (here, Venezuela and La Brae, California). Trinidad's is the only one that is actively mined.
We hiked across water filled crevices where the gases are escaping as the pitch heats and heaves upwards. We saw the pitch in varying degrees of stability from hard and crusted to soft and pliable, as well as the processed pellet form that is exported.