One of the best aurora spots on Earth, on Great Slave Lake, with an ice road in winter.
The port of Ometepe, an island of two volcanoes in Lake Nicaragua.
The gateway to Lake Atitlan, three volcanoes and the Maya villages reached by boat.
The Walker sculpture garden, the Mississippi falls and lakes inside the city limits.
Carved wooden houses of the Siberian merchants and Decembrist exiles, an hour from Lake Baikal.
The white Lake Palace floating on Pichola, the City Palace and rooftop dinners over the water.
A Bai walled town between Erhai lake and the Cangshan mountains, the backpacker capital of Yunnan.
Ali Pasha's lakeside castle, a monastery island and silversmiths, at the foot of the Pindus mountains.
Rozafa castle above the largest lake in the Balkans, the bicycle city and the gateway to the Albanian Alps.
A red-brick island castle in Lake Galve and the kibinai pastries of the Karaim community.
A church on an island in an alpine lake, a castle on the cliff and cream cake on the shore.
The Jet d Eau, the United Nations and the Red Cross, on the lake where the Rhone leaves the Alps.
The Olympic Museum on a hillside above Lake Geneva, with the Lavaux vineyard terraces next door.
Palm trees and Italian coffee on a Swiss lake, with Monte Bre and San Salvatore funiculars above.
The Lindwurm dragon fountain and the warm waters of Lake Worthersee, the summer capital of Carinthia.
The 'Venice of the Alps': canals through a medieval old town and the cleanest lake in Europe.
The July jazz festival, the Freddie Mercury statue and Chillon castle along a lakeside promenade.
Turquoise lakes among sharp peaks.
Alpine lake named for Alexander.
Calm lagoon and voodoo villages.
Broad tidal lagoon and beaches near Robertsport.
A salt lake turned pink by algae, where salt-gatherers wade waist-deep and the water floats you.
Sacred volcano and crater lake.
Cool highland village at 1,400 m with crater lakes and cloud-forest trails — the base for hiking Bioko's wild south.
Big Five savanna on Rwanda’s eastern border, restored from near-collapse with lions and rhinos reintroduced.
The world’s largest man-made lake, with houseboat cruises among drowned trees and elephants on the shore.
Clear freshwater lake teeming with cichlids.
A lake of 29 islands in the terraced hills near the Congo border — canoe trips, no crocodiles, safe to swim.
Rwanda’s Riviera — bilharzia-free swimming, kayaking and coffee farms on the shores of a lake ringed by hills.
One of the world’s oldest lakes, with Byzantine churches on the shore and a UNESCO-listed old town.
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