A short story about the lake. "Mountain peaks sleep in the darkness of the night..."
Nature on our planet is amazing and diverse, it has a lot of unusual places not at all similar to each other. Spectacular places surround us everywhere, green meadows and fields, enchanting and majestic mountains and fascinating landscapes of the mirror surfaces of the seas and lakes. Particularly beautiful are the places around the most beautiful lakes in the world. Lakes are a special, amazing beauty of nature. Formed in a natural way, the reservoirs form a special magical and attractive world around the seed, reflecting it in the mirror surface of their waters, expanding the space and captivating everyone who touches this beauty.
Lakes may be small or occupy large spaces, but certainly each of them has its own charm and its own world. All lakes carry their own beauty and charm. Let's take a look at the 10 most beautiful lakes in the world that everyone needs to see and touch this mysterious world. In fact, all these lakes have long been extremely popular among tourists, especially those who love eco-tourism and unity with nature.
1. Lake Tahoe (United States of America)
it big lake located in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the United States. Lake Tahoe is a freshwater lake surrounded by mountain ranges known as one of the most beautiful tourist destinations not only in Nevada and California, but also far beyond America. The lake is famous for its crystal clear and transparent water and amazing mountain scenery, majestically protected by mountain ranges located around the lake. There are also many here beautiful hotels for tourists.
Photo: Lake Tahoe (United States of America)
2. Shangrila Lake (Pakistan)
Shangrila Lake, or Lake Lower Kachura, is part of the Shangrila Resort, and is located in Skardu, Pakistan. Although Pakistan is considered by many to be a developing country, it is endowed with great natural beauty. This is a great tourist destination. Particularly well suited for holding honeymoon. All visitors to the lake get the impression of being in a fairy-tale reality, and all thanks to the amazing natural beauty. The lake has a picturesque view and its own, unique and charming atmosphere.
3. Lake of five flowers (China)
Five Flower Lake is located in Jiuzhaigou Valley, China. This is a very beautiful and attractive lake. Thanks to the amazing color of the water and the impeccable beauty, this lake rightfully belongs to one of the most beautiful lakes in the world. The color of the water surface of the lake itself is a combination of its algae and limestone bottom. This lake is also called Wuhua Hai. The immaculate purity of the water of the lake is the dignity of Jiuzhaigon - the national park of China. This mesmerizing and shallow lake radiates various turquoise colors, and its bottom is littered with the trunks of fallen old trees. The reflection of autumn foliage in the waters of this lake is especially beautiful, and this is a truly breathtaking manifestation of nature. The popular Pearl Falls, 28 meters high and 310 meters wide, originate here.
4 Peyto Lake (Canada)
Peyto Lake with turquoise water is the most famous in Canada. Peyto is very beautiful lake. It is located in national park Banff, in the beautiful Canadian Rockies. This beautiful lake is known all over the world for its breathtaking beauty and special color that slowly changes with the seasons. Peyto Lake is located at an altitude of 1860 m above sea level, stretching for 2.8 kilometers in length and 800 meters in width. An incredible color that delights numerous tourists is given to the lake by specific mountain glacial flour, which arrives here from glaciers that feed amazing body of water, and turns the water into a thick turquoise. The popularity of the lake was also brought by an unusual shape resembling a wolf's head. Peyto surrounded magnificent mountains and beautiful forests. amazing scenery captivate the beauty of any of the visitors.
5. Lake Baikal (Russia)
Lake Baikal is located in the southern part of Eastern Siberia. Lake of tectonic origin. This is one of the largest lakes in the world, the brightest and oldest freshwater lakes. The bottom of Lake Baikal is 1167 meters below the level of the World Ocean. The lake is in seventh place in the world in terms of surface area, which is almost 32 thousand square kilometers. UNESCO declared it world heritage in 1996, by reserves fresh water and unique nature surrounding coasts. Baikal water is unique and amazing, like Baikal itself. It is unusually transparent, pure and saturated with oxygen. The huge mass of water contained in Baikal and its mountainous environment create an extraordinary microclimate.
6. Pink Lake Hillier (Australia)
A lake of pink color, so bright that its color matches the color of children's chewing gums, bordered by banks of white sand and surrounded by the dense greenery of the eucalyptus forest, it all captivates anyone who visits Lake Hillier. All the beauty and unusualness of the lake opens from a bird's eye view, despite the fact that the lake is shallow and its length is about 600 m and its width is 250 m. Despite the pink color of the water, it is not dangerous and it is quite possible to swim in it, though the water here it is so salty that it exceeds the salt content in comparison with the ocean several times. The pink color of the water is attributed to microscopic algae - Dunaliella brackish, although the nature of the color has not been fully studied. Bacteria and microorganisms can also color the water, changing the color of the water depending on the season.
A photo: pink lake Hiller (Australia)
7. Cave Lake Yucatan (Mexico)
cave lake Yucatan is amazing lake. It is located on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. This lake has no similar lake in the whole world due to its stunning and captivating beauty. The place where this beautiful lake is located is considered a paradise for adventurers. This lake is already many millions of years old, and the cave surrounding it is considered the most beautiful and is completely composed of limestone. Numerous myths about this place and its mysterious nature make it the most attractive tourist destination. The Yucatan Peninsula in southern Mexico protected area where there are no big factories and agriculture.
Photo: Cave Lake Yucatan (Mexico)
8. Lake Melissani (Greece)
Lake Melissani is located in Greece, amazing and beautiful country, known for its hospitality, impeccable waters and numerous sandy beaches. In the very center of the Melissani cave there is an amazingly beautiful underground lake, whose age reaches 20 thousand years. Its crystal clear turquoise waters framed by emerald thickets create a truly fabulous atmosphere here. The lake is a mixture of sea and fresh water. Sunlight penetrates through the dome of the cave and, depending on the movement of the sun across the sky, the water in the lake changes its color from turquoise, green, to piercing blue and even black. The dome of the cave was destroyed due to an earthquake and now sunlight penetrates inside, illuminating the walls of the cave and the waters of the lake, penetrating to the very bottom. The water here is so clear that even at a depth of 14 meters you can see the bottom of the lake.
9. Plitvice Lakes (Croatia)
These lakes are located in the largest national park in Croatia, and are one of the main tourist destinations in the country. Plitvice Lakes is a combination of nature and human activities. Plitvice Lakes National Park is a dynamic system of 16 lakes connected by 92 waterfalls. All sixteen lakes are connected to each other. The combination of all the lakes combines them into one lake. And this beautiful lake is famous for its unique color variations. Color shades range from gray to blue and green to azure. The color change depends on the amount of minerals in the water, the angle of the sunlight, and the organisms living in the water. Rainbows can be seen on the lake several times a day. This is one of the most beautiful lakes in the world, and the nature around looks incredibly fabulous. To a large extent, the beauty of nature is emphasized by the lighting system. The total area of the lakes is about 2 sq. km, and the entire national park extends over an area of 200 sq. km.
10. Lake Gali Ratti (Kashmir)
Gali Ratti Lake is located in Neelum District, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. This is a high mountain glacial lake. It is located at an altitude of 12,130 feet. Lake Gali Ratti is fed by the surrounding glacial waters flowing down from the surrounding mountains. This is one of the most beautiful lakes in the world, which can be highlighted in the list of the most beautiful lakes in the world.
Photo: Lake Gali Ratti (Kashmir)
Geographic features are everything that surrounds us, that is, they are stable or relatively stable objects with a specific location on Earth that can be described. Our article will talk about how to describe the lake.
Model plan for describing geographical features
Before drawing up a plan for describing the lake, you should briefly plan a story about any geographical feature. So, you can describe:
- population in a certain area;
- travel;
- natural resources of the country;
- geographical location of the mainland;
- relief of the territory;
- climate;
- natural zone/zones;
- country;
- Agriculture;
- description of the political map.
As can be seen from the list above, anything can be described, and for each object there is a plan. But if you don’t know it, then you can describe the object according to a typical plan, which is the following:
- Define a map, which can be political, physical, textual, or complex.
- Define scale.
- Familiarize yourself with the legend, i.e. determine what objects, conditional images, units of measurement are for expressing quantitative indicators.
- Find a given territory or object and describe it using a legend.
- It happens that one card is not enough to describe, so it’s worth using several to complete the picture.
Lake description plan: where to start
As mentioned above, there are typical types of description, but there is a plan for each object, including for such a water body as a lake. First you need to draw up a short plan, and then describe it in more detail.
Lake description plan:
- Name.
- The location of the reservoir.
- Basin type.
- Greatest depth.
- Salinity.
- Definition of a sewage or endorheic lake.
- Description of the coast.
In this lake description plan, it is also possible to add a division of salt lakes by chemical composition, which are divided into carbonate, sulfate and chloride. Lakes can also be divided according to nutrients:
- oligotrophic, i.e. a small amount of nutrients;
- eutrophic, i.e. where is contained a large number of nutrients;
- dystrophic, i.e. poor nutrients, mainly refers to swampy lakes.
Plan for describing the main information
The description of the lakes can be done following the plan described above. It is universal and suitable for the characteristics of any reservoir. But first, let's define it.
A lake is a naturally occurring body of water that is filled with water within a lake bowl and has no connection to the sea or ocean.
On planet Earth today there are more than 40 largest lakes, which have an area of more than 4 thousand km 2. The largest are the Caspian Sea, Huron, Victoria, Superior and Michigan. 
The description of the lake should begin with its name. For example, this is where the story of Lake Huron can begin. It is located in North America in two countries: Canada and the United States. It occupies an area of 59 thousand 600 kilometers, has a depth of up to 229 meters.
Next, it is necessary to determine the type of basin, which are divided by origin into tectonic (i.e., they are formed in places of a fault or shift of the earth's crust); glacial (when the basin was formed by plowing a glacier); river; seaside; failure (formed where frozen soils began to thaw); underground; volcanic; artificial.
It should be clarified that Lake Huron is freshwater, and was formed due to tectonic processes.
Other lakes should be described according to the same plan, for example, the largest in Russia and one of the largest among freshwater lakes - Lake Baikal. Let's look at a few examples.
Lake Baikal
It is worth starting the description of Lake Baikal according to the plan from its location. It is located in Central Asia, in the Irkutsk region of Russia. This is one of the largest lakes in the world, which occupies the seventh position in terms of area and is the deepest among freshwater. Its depth is 1637 meters.
Lake of tectonic origin. Scientists are still arguing about its origin, since they cannot fully establish the exact date. It stretches for 600 kilometers, and in some places it can reach 80 kilometers in width. The area of the reservoir is 31 thousand km 2, as, for example, the area of Belgium or Denmark. The coastline stretches for 2100 kilometers, in the west the coast is rocky and steep, and in the east it is more gentle. 
Lake Baikal is a wastewater, more than 300 rivers and streams flow into it, the largest are Snezhnaya, Barguzin, Sarma, and only the Angara River flows out.
According to the plan, the description of Lake Baikal can be completed by clarifying the volume of water. They are huge, and there are 19% of the reserves of all fresh water, second only to the Caspian Sea. More than 2 thousand species of plants and animals live in the lake, 2/3 of which are endemic, that is, living organisms that are found only in this reservoir. This abundance is explained by the high content of oxygen in the entire water column.
Lake Victoria
The plan for describing Lake Victoria should begin with the fact that it is located in East Africa on the territory of three states, such as Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. In terms of area, it ranks first on the mainland and third in the world and is 68 thousand km 2, the maximum depth is 80 meters, and the length coastline stretched for 7 thousand kilometers.
The lake is wastewater, the Kagera River flows into it, and the Victoria and the Nile flow out, but the main source of food is precipitation, and not its tributaries. 
The shores near the lake are mostly flat and low, heavily indented and swampy.
Lake Victoria is one of the largest freshwater lakes, which ranks third in area. It is home to more than 200 species of fish, due to which many animals feed.
Lake Chad
The plan for describing Lake Chad should begin with the fact that it is located in Central Africa on the territory of several states, or rather the Republic of Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon. 
The lake is in the twelfth position among the largest lakes in the world and covers an area of 26 thousand km 2. It is definitely impossible to designate the area, because during the rains it spills and the area increases to 50 thousand km 2, and during the drought the area is reduced to 11 thousand km 2. Max Depth reaches 12 meters.
In the south, the Shari River, which is one of the sources of food, flows into the lake, in the west, the Komadugu-Vaube River, in the east, Bar el-Ghazali.
This summer, August turned out to be hot and stuffy. On the day off, my mother suggested that my father and I go to the lake to swim. We liked the offer very much. We quickly packed everything we needed and hit the road.
We traveled for a long time, because the distance from our village to the lake is large.
It was hot, the windows in the car were open all the time. I looked out the window all the way, and I didn't get bored at all.
I looked at the yellowing fields and green meadows, at the river with lonely fishermen in the reeds, at the blue sky with white lambs of clouds, which seemed to float behind the car, not lagging behind and not overtaking it.
The road wound through cornfields, sometimes surrounded by walnut groves. Several times our path passed through villages and small towns. The streets were quiet and strangely thoughtful. Someone else's life flashed and flashed by, very interesting, bright, and sometimes
and mysterious. I watched, with bated breath, someone else's life, opening up for a second in fleeting pictures, as if in movie frames: here the girl came out and started playing with the ball. Before you have time to think about who she is, what she thinks and dreams about, a new picture opens up: a woman takes off her underwear from a rope stretched next to the porch of the house. Here
there is a truck at the railway crossing, and the driver says something to the old railway worker, waving his arms, and it is not clear whether they are cursing or laughing.
It is interesting to observe the diversity of life from the car window.
Here is the lake! It looked like the sea, only a narrow strip of the opposite shore was visible. Low waves lapped lazily at their very feet. I wanted to stroke them on the cool “back”. I leaned over to dip my hand into the depths, slipped and... Plop!
It’s good that it didn’t turn out to be deep, because I still don’t swim well.
Then there was everything: swimming in clean water, barbecue, baked potatoes in the coals. And also - the evening sky with huge stars.
Late in the evening, when it was already dark, we left for home, but there were many impressions and for a long time. Just enough for next summer!
Some lakes are distinguished by their depth, others by the beauty of the surrounding landscapes. Some are simply surrounded by shores, others are shores with wonderful vegetation, and still others are generally bizarre rocks. But among all types of lakes there are those that differ in the specific color of the water. We will tell about them.
10. Lake Laguna Verde
Laguna Verde - salt Lake located in the southwest of the High Plains of Bolivia. For those who know Spanish, the name of the lake already speaks for itself - in translation, the lake is called the Green Lagoon. This name appeared for a reason, the water here is really green. The lake is located at the foot of the Licancabur volcano, and the beautiful green hue of the water is caused by a variety of minerals and other substances, including copper.
Source: wikipedia.org
9. Lake Bande Amir in Afghanistan
This is a chain of 6 dark blue mountain lakes located high in the Hindu Kush mountains in central Afghanistan. In 2008 they became Afghanistan's first National Park. The lakes were formed by mineral-rich water that seeps through cracks in rocks and rocks. The reason for this shade of water just lies in the mineral-rich water.
Source: wikipedia.org
8. Lake Pukaki in New Zealand
The water of Lake Pukaki can be characterized by a separate, own color, calling it glacier blue. The colorful lake was formed by melting glaciers many years ago. The lake is replenished with melt water to this day. Well, a special color is achieved due to the microparticles contained in its water.
Source: wikipedia.org
7. Colorado Lagoon in Bolivia
Lake Laguna Colorado is located in Bolivia near the border with Chile. The reddish hue of the water depends on minerals, as well as algae blooming in certain time of the year. This place is also a breeding ground for many species of flamingos, including rare ones.
Source: wikipedia.org
6. Colored lakes Kelimutu in Indonesia
Kelimutu lakes are one of the most beautiful colored lakes. Three lakes are located in the crater of the volcano, and each of them has its own color. The source of unique color combinations lies in the earth's crust and is known as fumaroles. The Colored Lakes are one of the most popular attractions on the island of Flores, attracting many tourists and explorers every year.
Source: wikipedia.org
5. Havasu Falls in the Grand Canyon
Havasu Canyon - part Grand Canyon, the Havasupai tribe lives here. This is one of the most remote places in America, the best way to get here is by helicopter or along the 13-kilometer horse trail. Most amazing place Havasupai - colorful waterfalls and pools. Such a diverse color of water is caused by minerals, in particular calcium and magnesium.
Source: wikipedia.org
4. Glacial Lake Moraine in Canada
The amazing Moraine Lake was also formed as a result of the melting of glaciers. It is located in Banff National Park, in the valley of the Ten Peaks. The color of the water here is also caused by special particles contained in the melt water of glaciers. Around the lake there are many tourist routes and trails, the only danger may be grizzly bears, which are quite common here.
Our nature is always a powerful source of inspiration for those who love and appreciate, contemplate it in all its innumerable manifestations. Nature always excites and attracts the attention of photographers, thanks to its spectacular views and endless beauty. Elements such as the sea and mountains awaken a storm of emotions in a person, bewitching and making you think about a lot. The harsh beauty of the mountains, the clear lines of the rocks against the blue background of the sky, bottomless and endless, like a great ocean, along which bizarre clouds float slowly, like magic ships that spread their snow-white and light sails on an endless and unknown path - this majestic beauty invites a person to think about eternity.
Mountains are one of the most breathtaking places on Earth. Mountains are usually called the part of the earth's land, which rises above the plain. Mountains are not alike, they differ in size and surface. Some mountains are huge, massive, several kilometers high. Others are calmer, they are low and even. And even their height can be only 300 meters above the surrounding area. Mountains are often isolated peaks. But usually they are combined into formations called mountain ranges. Such mountain ranges can include hundreds or even thousands of individual peaks. The most high mountain on the ground, it is Everest, 8848 meters high, located on the border of Nepal and China.
People have been photographing their grief ever since it became possible to photograph their expeditions. For quite some time, photographers have been photographing mountains to visually showcase their expeditions. Shooting mountains is a good opportunity to capture beautiful landscapes. In addition to their extraordinary beauty, the mountains have always given the opportunity to conduct a lot of interesting outdoor activities, such as mountaineering, ski snowboarding and skiing.
Traveling in the mountains, you can take breathtaking pictures of mountain landscapes that will attract and inspire. You can verify this for yourself by looking at pictures of mountain landscapes below.
Mountain height
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cape mountains
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Mont Blanc
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yellow mountains
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Mount Rainier
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Mount Orliakas
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Green velvet
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Cervino
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