The picture below looks like it is from a fantasy or science fiction movie such as Avatar, but this place exists on Earth!
This is Plitvice Lakes National Park in Crotatia. The park hosts sixteen lakes and two waterfalls. I am a fan of large nature scenes, and this one is simply breathtakingly beautiful. According to the park website, during the Pleistocene era, water ate away at the porous rock of a mountain creating a multitude of reliefs which form the lake basins today. These lakes also host a wide variety of flora and fauna including 28 different endemic plant species. Another notable feature about this ecosystem is that the different lakes tend to vary in color. The lakes flow and cascade into one another allowing the accumulation of organic matter which leaves varying levels of minerals in the lakes. More so, this flow of organic matter has
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| Compare the different shades of the water. The top one is more aqua marine while the one below has more of a green tint. |
For more information about the Plitvice Lakes National Park, look at its UNESCO page at http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/98/
and the official park page at
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