Kanas Lake

The Kanas Lake (Kanasi Hu), which means "beautiful, rich and mysterious" in Mongolian, locates 150km north of Bu'erjin Town in Xinjiang. Nestled in the deep forests and mountains of Altay (A Er Tai in Chinese), the lake is 1,374m above sea level and covers an area of 45sqkm (10 times bigger than Tianchi on Bogda Mountain) with the deepest point of 188m.The long bean-shaped lake reflects the surrounding snowcapped mountains. In autumn, it presents a picturesque landscape of forests in a riot of colors with gold, red, blue and green, which excites your sights and senses.