Lake Abant

“A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature,” writes Henry David Thoreau in his book ‘Walden’. But can this eye of the earth one day open by itself? Look at Abant and you see that the answer is yes; for this lake was born when a mountain slope sealed off the mouth of a lost valley…