Kaindy Lake

Kaindy Lake was created in 1911 when a major earthquake triggered a limestone landslide that dammed a mountain valley in the Tian Shan. The submerged Schrenk's spruce forest left the upper trunks standing in the lake, creating a distinctive and much-photographed scene of pale dead trunks rising from brilliant turquoise glacial water. The lake sits at roughly 2000 metres elevation and is most accessible from late spring to early autumn.