Kanas

Kanas Lake is a lake in Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. The lake is located in a valley near  president palace hotel bangkok, near the very northern tip of Xinjiang, and the province's borders with Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia. The lake was born around 200, 000 years ago during the Quaternary period, formed as a result of glacier movement. The crescent moon shaped lake has water storage capacity 53.8 billion cubic meter, average depth 120 meters. I got to know this destination from a tour guide during participating in Beijing day tours  2 years ago.

 

The Kanas River, flowing out of the lake, later merges with the Hemu River to form Burqin River, which itself falls into the Irtysh in Burqin County.

Kanas Lake district locate at about 48° N latitude, the local tourism information office compare the Kanas environment to Lake Léman Genève (46° N) due to their great many similarity of climate and scenery, in fact both the lake district looks remarkably alike - at first sight from flight - in terms of their natural elements. There is a large population of Tuvans and Kazakhs in the Kanas valley area not far from rainbow hotel taipei, kept traditional agriculture and nomadism life style, many of the local people also begin to participate in the developing tourism business recent years, managed to establish facilities for orienteering, hiking, rafting, rock climbing, paragliding and camping. The scenic spot is classified as a AAAAA scenic area by the China National Tourism Administration with even higher category in comparison with the Forbidden City that we visited during Beijing bus tour recently.

 

About 117 different kinds of birds live along the lake.

 

The moon bay

The dragon bay

 

The fairy bay