CROOKED TREES: LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF A FAIRY TALE

As I am just an ordinary Malaysian teacher earning enough to live comfortably, I do not have the resources to travel far and wide to see as much of the world as I possibly can. Thankfully, there is this thing called the electronic media which enables me to see things that I would otherwise not be able to. 

Recently, I chanced upon one of the wonders of Poland when I was surfing the Internet.  What I am referrring to is the Crooked Forest of Gryfino in North West Poland.  This pine forest is what one can visualise as something  right out of a fairy tale.  It is described as a forest having around four hundred trees formed with a 90° horizontal bend in its trunk before rising vertically again. This grove of curved trees has been dubbed the 'Crooked Forest'.  According to information I sourced from the Internet, the curved pines were planted around 1930.  One source said that they were curved because of human intervention.  Hmm ... this is a possibility as we have all the curved Lucky Bamboo plants.  

To read more, you can click the LINKS below.

LINKS
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2011/05/crooked-forest-of-gryfino-poland.html
http://www.ilovepoland.co.uk/seven_secret_wonders_of_poland.htm
http://www.lifebeyondtourism.org/photoblog/2010/10/our-bloggers/age/age-18-25/crooked-forest/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047406/The-crooked-forest-Fantasy-woodland-come-straight-fairytale.html#ixzz1or3l2wKI