Big Almaty Lake, located 28 km south of Almaty in the Ili-Alatau National Park at 2,511 meters elevation, is a stunning tectonic lake famous for its vivid turquoise color that changes throughout the year; it serves as a critical freshwater reservoir for Almaty, which restricts swimming, fishing, and boating to preserve its pristine environment and diverse wildlife including marmots, foxes, ibex, and rare snow leopards.
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Big, almighty lake. Who would have thought that Borat [music] was from such a beautiful country? Look, it's the up mom I think I need some at the start of the trail. In case anyone was wondering, I took a bus to get here. It's [music] bus number 211. It took me about 30 minutes to get to the trailhead. The trailhead that you see on your app is likely much further back. They're really trying to sell their electric bike. Super steep incline to get here, [music] but if you're fit, you can do it. And it only took me an hour to reach the lake. I thought it would be longer to be honest.
But a nice hour at the lake, and now I'm off to hike another peak. There's definitely a lot of clouds over this mountain range over here.
I would love to see it.
Cloudy mountains. Both peaks in this loop I'm doing seems [music] to be completely snowed over at the moment.
It's supposed to be a waterfall, I think. I don't see any waterfall here.
It's pretty dangerous to be going on this trail, so guess I'll call it. I was going to save this beer for the waterfall, but you know.
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