Rwanda’s Riviera — bilharzia-free swimming, kayaking and coffee farms on the shores of a lake ringed by hills.
Twin-volcano island in Lake Nicaragua.
The Balkans’ largest lake, a national park of water lilies, pelicans and island monasteries.
Alpine lake high in the Abkhaz mountains.
Glacial lakes and a deep canyon.
Red-brick Gothic castle on an island in Lake Galve, home of the Karaim community and their kibinai pastries.
Remote island with a vast cathedral.
One of the world’s oldest lakes, with Byzantine churches on the shore and a UNESCO-listed old town.
The world's longest freshwater lake.
Trek to the world's second-largest hot lake.
North Macedonia's largest national park.
Saharan lakes that defy the desert, UNESCO-listed.
High pastures and glacial lakes along Kosovo’s southern rim.
Shrinking lake at the edge of the Sahel.
Stone marking where Livingstone and Stanley camped on Lake Tanganyika’s shore.
Cobbled colonial town above a lake.
High pasture lake with yurt stays.
Honduras’s largest lake, ringed by cloud forest, waterfalls and birdlife.
Sandy shore on Lake Tanganyika.
The world's second-largest alpine lake.
Deep-blue volcanic crater lake ringed by weekend cafes and piers.
Turquoise alpine lake at 3,560 m, the classic Karakol trek.
Island church on an alpine lake.
Crater lake ringed by three volcanoes and Maya villages — Aldous Huxley called it the most beautiful lake in the world.
Submerged sunken forest in a turquoise lake.
"Venice of Africa" — a whole town on stilts in Lake Nokoue.
One of the world's largest reservoirs.
Otherworldly landscape of limestone chimneys.
Tis Issat, the "smoking water" — the Blue Nile plunges 45 metres over a basalt lip below Lake Tana.
Turquoise alpine reservoir in the mountains above Almaty.
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