The Beautiful of Lake Three Colors

 The beautiful of Nature | The Beautiful of  Lake Three Colors | Lake Flores actually is one of mainstay attractions Flores.To reach the lake is located about 51 kilometers east of the town of Ende, the tourists can use the motor vehicle from Ende, also can use the intercity buses.

Lake Three Colors

Lake Three Colors

Sights in the area was fascinating. Thick white fog that moves slowly over the top of Mount Flores (approximately 1640 meters above sea level) is one of a very typical scene in about three-colored lake on the mountaintop. Three lakes are located adjacent to each other was also "not named". On the east side, there are two lakes, whose waters each green and brown. For the green lake, people usually call it by the lake spirits of young people (Tiwu nua ko'o fai muri). Dark brown spirit lake called soothsayers or wicked (Tiwu ata polo). 

On the west side there is a lake or dark green moss, which is called the lake spirits of parents (Tiwu Ata Mbupu). 

Lake Three Colors

A number of the suspect, change the color of the water in the lake caused by volcanic activity Flores, refracting the sunlight, the presence of micro-water biota , the occurrence of dissolved chemical substances, as well as due to the reflection color of the walls and bottom of the lake. A brief explanation that the color changes to blue water and white (now green) is made possible by changes in water chemical composition of the crater due to changes in volcanic gases, or can also be caused by rising temperatures. Meanwhile, the increasing concentration of iron (Fe) in the fluid causes the red color to black (now brown). The moss green color of the biota is possible certain kinds of moss. For ethnic communities Lio, Ende, Flores is the existence of Lake at an altitude 1690 meters above sea level (asl) that has a strong magical meaning. In the myth of their hereditary, Flores Lakes region is a kind of hometown spirit. Gates, Pere Konde, believed to be maintained by Konde Queen, the ruler.