Plitvice Lakes National Park is the biggest tourist attraction in Croatia, the reserve belonging to the UNESCO World Heritage   Park is a karst system consisting of 16 lakes, which have the common denominator Plitvice river. They are divided into two parts, depending on their geographical location. Thus became known as the upper lakes and lakes below.   Of these, stands Kozjak lake, which is the most stretched, and while being navigable....

Jiuzhaigou Valley is a nature reserve in southwest China, known for its waterfalls and lakes. The most important attraction of the area is the Five-Flower Lake, because of his amazing colors. Wide range of colors (cyan blue, yellow, dark green and yellow) is due to calcium carbonate in water....

The Emerald Lakes are located in New Zealand, on Mount Tongariro.  The lakes are considered to be sacred to the Maori people. ...

   Boiling Lake is a mystery to many curious. The lake is located in Pitons Morne National Park, world heritage of the country. The lake is basically a large hole in the Earth's surface, filled with gray-blue water. When evaporated to form a cloud of steam to the surface. The lake measures 60 feet in diameter.      We can say that is a huge natural boiler in which water boils. From measurements found that the shore water temperature varies b...

   Located on the island of Trinidad, this quaint lake contains asphalt that is sold to locals for over 100 years without the lake to drop. Pitch is one among the most impressive natural phenomena.      On a surface of about 47 hectares lies a huge "bucket" which has a depth of 80 m and that there are some 10 million tons of natural resin. This lake is strange about the existence of volcanoes in this area that pushes the earth's su...

 Like some chameleons, Kelimutu Lakes change their colors over the years.   Flores island residents believe that the souls of wizards abide height of mountains here, in a lake whose water appears black.   Lakes unusual color shades are surprising in itself, but you should know that not many years ago, its waters were other colors: black, brown and blue.   In 1960 were coffee with milk, red-brown and blue...

   Caspian Sea is considered to be the world's largest lake and is situated between Europe and Asia. Has the area of 371 000 km (389 000 km ² bay Bogazici Kara Gol) and maximum depth of 1 026 m. It is located at - 27 m (2006) from the World Ocean.       Caspian Sea level and hence its surface is subjected to frequent fluctuations. Thus in the Caspian Sea in 1929 was 442 thousand km ² (more than the Black Sea) and was located at - 2...

   In the hot summer sun, spotted lake (located in British Columbia and Washington), evaporates and crystallizes forming minerals are white circles that contain shallow pools that reflect the mineral content of water in blue and green.      This lake is very rich in mineral concentrations: magnesium sulphate (Epsom salt), calcium and sodium sulphate, including titanium and silver. Native name is Klikuk Lake and its water is used by locals to...

   The Red Lagoon is located in southwestern Bolivia, at the border with Chile. Lagoon is red, the color evolves during the day, the water transparency as to tap the red, through orange and even purple.      Mystery: the presence of microscopic organisms, some sort of shrimp whose color is changing sunlight. Laguna is home to millions of pink flamingos ......

   In Peru, between two massive mountain, lies the Altiplano, a plain at an average height of 3,000 m, called the Roof of the World, is located near Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake high altitude at 4127 m above sea level.      Viewed from space, looks like a jaguar Lake Titicaca and the bottom of the lake, the enormous depth of 2,000 m was a wall 20 meters high, the researcher discovered the submarine Cousteau. This wall to indicate the...

  In 1870, a Kansas student read in the newspaper where he wrapped his food an article about a lake in the mountains of Oregon, surrounded by high stone walls between which there is a volcano. The article raised the interest of little William Gladstone Steel to Crater Lake, that will animate his life later on. He campaigned tirelessly for the protection of its efforts against human activities have resulted in 1902 when the crater lake became the fifth U.S. national park. ...

   Baikal, besides being the deepest lake on Earth, can be considered as the oldest by about 20-25 million years of existence (excluding the Caspian and Aral) and one of the "living museum" where live about 800 species and 245 endemic plant species, his own.    Obviously, this treasure fauna and flora, this imposing natural monument with its size - 636 km length, maximum width 79.5 kilometers, 31,500 and 23,000 km2 km3 water - has aroused the interest o...

Dead Sea is a large continental sea, without leaks to the ocean. It is also the lowest point on Earth.  The only flowing river that feeds it is the Jordan river, which is the natural border between Israel, Jordan and Jordan west. Before it was called the Salt Sea or Sea of Asphalt.   The name "Dead Sea" was given by Greek Pausanias, who studied and a first date, and is not excessive because of high salinity is averse life here. Is the...