On our first full day at the Italian Dolomites we decided to head off to a hike to a mountain lake. We drove quite a while through the majestic scenery, stopping at the first shop we saw (shops are few and far between, as we learnt at our accommodation town) to buy savoury snacks and […]
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Big Almaty Lake feat. Sultan
Big Almaty Lake was the first site I’d decided I wanted to see when I started researching Almaty, frequently heralded as the “most beautiful lake in Kazakhstan”. Hidden amidst the mountains at an altitude of 2,511 metres, this imaginatively named wonder is a turquoise natural reservoir which provides drinking water for the city. Due to […]
Lake Kaindy, the mystic sunken forest
110 years ago Lake Kaindy was a forest like any other. Then the 1911 Kebin earthquake happened, which created a landslide which created a dam, eventually causing rainwater to drown the forest. The trees have taken Ariel as a role model and still appear to be living underwater as mertrees, covered in sea plants and […]