Saturday 9 November 2013
Just three sisters, the water in the crater lake Kelimutu sometimes discolored as for other loan outfits.
Province of Ende Flores island, East Nusa Tenggara exists an architectural ensemble of three exotic natural lakes identical, side by side, but always bring different colors. Three lakes are located at an altitude of 1,690 m above the top of Kelimutu volcano.
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Local people believe that this is the resting place of the ancestral spirits, so they named the three lakes. Two adjacent lake called "Lake mesmerizing" and "Lake boys and girls", with green and copper red. Way beyond Lake in blue titled "Ho old people."
Over time, three lakes alternately bring different colors like green, blue, red, copper or even gray. Legend says that the lake here discoloration depends on the mood of the ancestral spirits are local shelter here.
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Unlike Green Lake in Mount Gambier South Australia is typically change color from blue to gray metal in a certain time period (December to March the following year), situated in the mountains or lakes Yudamari Nakadake in Japan changed from the sun to the color green, three lakes at Kelimutu, Indonisia can switch colors at any time during the year. Do not have any rules, only the lucky visitors to witness the spectacle strange discoloration of tank.
Although no scientific tests have been carried out, but it is believed that gas ejected from the hole at the bottom of the lake causes water discoloration phenomenon in two adjacent lakes in the East.
When sprayed on the air, they interact with the mineral water in the lake that changes color. Indonesian Institute of Sciences confirmed if the water in a lake that is grayed out, it is a sign dark volcanic eruption coming.
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Visitors are advised to visit this morning to watch the great moment of the lake and down the mountain before the sun off. The jagged volcanic rocks and slippery trail around the lake mouth is often dangerous to visitors at dusk and night. Those who stumble down the lake before most of whom do not hold the network. In 1995, a Dutch tourist who fell into the lake and his body has not been found.
The phenomenon of color change and suddenly found the body has died at weaving stories strange and curious for any visitor.
