Most Beautiful Lakes

The beauty of lakes has attracted one and all.....



Here are some of the Lakes from around the world that are unique in their own special ways.....





Plitvice Lakes (Croatia): Sixteen Lakes interconnected by Spectacular Waterfalls



The Plitvice Lakes are a series of sixteen lakes interconnected by
spectacular waterfalls, set in a deep woodland and populated by deers,
bears, wolves, boars and rare bird species. A UNESCO World Heritage
Site, the lakes are renowned for their distinctive colours, ranging
from azure to green, grey or blue. The colours change constantly
depending on the quantity of minerals or organisms in the water and the
angle of sunlight.

Boiling Lake (Dominica): A Flooded Fumarole



The Boiling Lake is situated in the Morne Trois Pitons National Park,
Dominica's World Heritage site. It is a flooded fumarole, or hole in
the earth¢s surface, 10.5 km east of Roseau, Dominica, on the
Caribbean. It is filled with bubbling greyish-blue water that is
usually enveloped in a cloud of vapor. The lake is approximately 60 m
across.

Red Lagoon (Bolivia): Red (algae) + White (borax)



The Laguna Colorada (Red Lagoon) is a shallow salt lake in the
southwest of the altiplano of Bolivia, close to the border with Chile.
The lake contains borax islands, whose white color contrasts nicely
with the reddish color of its waters, caused by red sediments and
pigmentation of some algae.

Five-Flower Lake (China): Beautiful Multi-Coloured Lake with Fallen Tree Trunks



The Wuhua Hai, or Five-Flower Lake, is the signature of the Jiuzhaigon
National Park in China. The lake is a shallow multi-coloured lake whose
bottom is littered with fallen tree trunks. The water is so clear that
you can see the trunks clearly. The water comes in different shares of
turquoise, from yellowish to green, to blue. It is located at an
elevation of 2472 meters, below Panda Lake and above the Pearl Shoal
Waterfall.






Dead Sea (Israel and Jordan): Lowest Point on Earth



The Dead Sea is a salt lake situated between Israel and the West bank
to the west, and Jordan to the east. It is 420 meters (1,378 ft) below
sea level and its shores are the lowest point on the surface of the
Earth on dry land. The Dead Sea is 330 m (1,083 ft) deep, the deepest
hypersaline lake in the world. It is also the world's second saltiest
body of water, after Lake Assal in Djibouti, with 30 percent salinity.
It is 8.6 times saltier than the ocean. This salinity makes for a harsh
environment where animals cannot flourish and boats cannot sail. The
Dead Sea is 67 kilometers (42 mi) long and 18 kilometers (11 mi) wide
at its widest point. It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main
tributary is the Jordan River.



The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin
for thousands of years. Biblically, it was a place of refuge for King
David. It was one of the world's first health resorts (for Herod the
Great), and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products,
from balms for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilizers.






Lake Baikal (Russia): Deepest and Oldest Lake in the World



Lake Baikal is located in Southern Siberia in Russia, and it's also
known as the "Blue Eye of Siberia". It contains more water than all the
North American Great Lakes combined. At 1,637 meters (5,371 ft), Lake
Baikal is the deepest lake in the world, and the largest freshwater
lake in the world by volume, holding approximately twenty percent of
the world's total fresh water. However, Lake Baikal contains less than
one third the amount of water as the Caspian Sea which is the largest
lake in the world. Lake Baikal was formed in an ancient rift valley and
therefore is long and crescent-shaped with a surface area (31,500 km²)
slightly less than that of Lake Superior or Lake Victoria. Baikal is
home to more than 1,700 species of plants and animals, two thirds of
which can be found nowhere else in the world and was declared a UNESCO
World Heritage Site in 1996. At more than 25 million years old, it is
the oldest lake in the world






Lake Titicaca (Bolivia and Peru): World's Highest Navigable Lake



Lake Titicaca is a lake located on the border of Bolivia and Peru. It
sits 3,812 m (12,500 ft) above sea level making it the highest
commercially navigable lake in the world. By volume of water it is also
the largest lake in South America. Lake Titicaca is fed by rainfall and
meltwater from glaciers on the sierras that abut the Altiplano.