The 'Venice of the Alps': canals through a medieval old town and the cleanest lake in Europe.
Palm trees and Italian coffee on a Swiss lake, with Monte Bre and San Salvatore funiculars above.
The July jazz festival, the Freddie Mercury statue and Chillon castle along a lakeside promenade.
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.
The Lindwurm dragon fountain and the warm waters of Lake Worthersee, the summer capital of Carinthia.
Alpine lake named for Alexander.
Calm lagoon and voodoo villages.
Cool highland village at 1,400 m with crater lakes and cloud-forest trails — the base for hiking Bioko's wild south.
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.
The world's longest freshwater lake.
Remote island with a vast cathedral.
Pristine "blue pearl" lake near Siberia.
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.
The Balkans’ largest lake, a national park of water lilies, pelicans and island monasteries.
Twin-volcano island in Lake Nicaragua.
Rwanda’s Riviera — bilharzia-free swimming, kayaking and coffee farms on the shores of a lake ringed by hills.
Red-brick Gothic castle on an island in Lake Galve, home of the Karaim community and their kibinai pastries.
Alpine lake high in the Abkhaz mountains.
One of the world’s oldest lakes, with Byzantine churches on the shore and a UNESCO-listed old town.
The world's second-largest alpine lake.
Shrinking lake at the edge of the Sahel.
High pasture lake with yurt stays.
Saharan lakes that defy the desert, UNESCO-listed.
Sandy shore on Lake Tanganyika.
Stone marking where Livingstone and Stanley camped on Lake Tanganyika’s shore.
Cobbled colonial town above a lake.
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