The trees of Lake Kaindy, Kazakhstan Lake Kaindy (Kazakh: Қайыңды көлі, Qayındı köli) is 400 me
The trees of Lake Kaindy, Kazakhstan Lake Kaindy (Kazakh: Қайыңды көлі, Qayındı köli) is 400 metres long and reaches depths near 30 metres in some areas. It is 129 km ESE of the city of Almaty, Kazakhstan and is 2,000 metres above sea level. The lake is very young; it formed after the 1911 Kebin earthquake triggered a limestone landslide which blocked the gorge and flooded the trees. The trees you see in the photo are dried-out trunks of submerged Picea schrenkiana and are not yet decayed. -TEL Photo credit: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/IMG_9366-Kaindy-e.jpg Read more: http://www.kazakhstandiscovery.com/kaindy.html#ixzz1z5gdTMbL;http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/most-incredible-sunken-forests/20675 See more photos (and Russians fishing) here: http://englishrussia.com/2010/03/02/ice-diving-in-kazakhstan/ -- source link
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