Jill Harness
Amazing Lakes From Around The World
by Jill Harness - December 4, 2009 - 12:06 PM

plitvice-lakes

The natural world is full of amazing colors and beauty, particularly within bodies of water. A recent post on Simon Seeks features some of the most incredible lakes from all over the world.

The lakes featured above are the Plitvice Lakes in Croatia. As you can see in the photo, the lakes are known for their cascading waterfalls and stunning colors. What’s truly fascinating about these lakes though are their constant changing of colors depending on the minerals and organisms in the water. Even the angle the sunlight hits the water will change the color of the lakes.

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Comments (7)

  1. I’ve been to Plitvice in Croatia, near the Bosnian border. What this picture doesn’t capture is the lakes are set at the base of a strikingly beautiful valley surrounded by mountains. It is simply stunning.

    posted by bo on 12-4-2009 at 3:20 pm

  2. A few years ago, PBS aired a great documentary about the Plitvice Lakes. It is titled “Land of the Falling Lakes.”

    Quite fascinating stuff. Watch it if you can get your hands on it.

    http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/fallinglakes/index.html

    posted by n2y2 on 12-4-2009 at 6:01 pm

  3. Wow. I want to go to there.

    And I mean that totally unironically.

    posted by Jacquilynne on 12-4-2009 at 8:47 pm

  4. Kluane (kl-OO-ah-NEE) lake in in Northern Canada along the Al-Can Highway is amazing.

    posted by Eric on 12-5-2009 at 5:10 am

  5. Jacquilynne, that word doesn’t mean what you think it means.

    posted by Sammy on 12-7-2009 at 2:48 am

  6. Plitvice Lakes were also the site of one of the first conflicts in the war that started after Croatia split from Yugoslavia. Sad…

    posted by VM on 12-10-2009 at 2:25 pm

  7. Yes i really want to go there !

    posted by Channy on 1-19-2012 at 8:20 pm

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