Kanas Lake

Kanas Lake is located in Hemu Hanas Mongolian Township in Burqin County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. In the Mongolian language, "Kanas" means "land of beauty, abundance and mystery". Mountains, rivers forestes and grasslands around the lake have retained their primitive state. It is the only area in Asia with natural scenery like that in Switzerland. In the scenic zone there are permanent ice-snow belts, frozen marshlands, alpine meadows, sub-alpine meadows, cniferous forests on mountain floating podzolic soil, broad-leved forests on mountain grayish black soil and meadow grasslands on black caleic soil. The color of the lake water changes along the change of seasons and time of the day. Sometimes it is emerald green, somtimes it is bright blue, sometimes it is grayish green and somtimes it is milky white.