by jyotsna at Monday, May 09, 2011 in Mountains and Peaks
Tags: highest lakes, lakes, World's highest lakes
Just imagine yourself witnessing a beautiful water body set against the backdrop of natural landscape! Isn’t it mind-blowing? Do you not feel like capturing it in your cameras for your lifetime? Well, that is the case with most of the nature-lovers like us.
We feel blessed that we experience such wonderful natural water bodies even in today’s world of pollution. These sceneries help us relax and unwind from everyday tensions of our lives.
Highest Lakes
There are a number of such striking sceneries of very high lakes across the world. Here are a few:
1. Ojos del Salado Pool (20,965 ft in Argentina
Nevado Ojos del Salado, meaning “Eyes of the Salty River” summit, is the world’s highest volcano. It is located in the south east border of Chile and Argentina. Sitting pretty at its foot on the east face is the unnamed crater lake, of a diameter of only 100 metres, a depth of 5-10 metres, but with an elevation of 20,965 ft (nearly 6,391 metres).
In spite of the generally dry conditions of the volcano, the crater lake remains a permanent one.
Photo by en.wikipedia.org