Glacial lake staircase high in the Rila mountains.
Taiwan's largest, most scenic lake.
Central Europe's largest lake.
Soda lake of flamingos and tree-climbing lions at the Rift Valley wall.
Hike between villages to a crater lake.
Cathedral-sized salt chambers with an underground lake and Ferris wheel.
Brunei's largest lake, a black-water heritage park with boardwalks, a tiny island and rare white-collared fruit bats.
Stilt and floating villages on Southeast Asia’s largest lake, which swells five-fold in the monsoon.
The world’s longest teak footbridge, best at sunset near Mandalay.
Stilt villages, floating gardens and leg-rowing fishermen on a Shan hills lake.
Sacred Inca island on the world’s highest navigable lake.
Island castle at the meeting of three sea lochs — Scotland’s most photographed.
Six sapphire lakes held by natural travertine dams in the Hindu Kush — Afghanistan’s first national park.
Freshwater lake ringed by biblical sites and lakeside hot springs.
Sail the deep blue of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake on Earth and the cradle of Inca legend
Step onto the springy reed ground of the Uros islands, hand-woven villages floating on Lake Titicaca for centuries
Lakes, oak woods and Muckross House below Ireland’s highest mountains, explored by jaunting car or bicycle.
Earn the impossible turquoise of Laguna 69, a glacial lake under the white walls of the Cordillera Blanca
The "troll’s tongue" rock ledge jutting 700 m above lake Ringedalsvatnet.
Storybook lakeside village in the Alps.
Rift-valley site of the world’s oldest parliament, where the tectonic plates pull apart.
The world’s deepest and oldest lake, frozen into blue ice sheets each winter.
Adventure hub between two lakes.
Poetic landscape of lakes and fells.
The world’s largest volcanic lake, with Batak villages on Samosir Island at its centre.
Lake city with a covered wooden bridge.
Imperial garden of lakes, pavilions and the Long Corridor on the edge of Beijing.
Canada’s first national park: Lake Louise, Moraine Lake, the Icefields Parkway and a gondola up Sulphur Mountain.
Two hundred kilometres of glaciers, turquoise lakes and peaks between Banff and Jasper — often called the most scenic drive on Earth.
Ferry between baroque palace-gardens and a fishing-village island on a serene pre-Alpine lake
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