Historically, the lake was used to cleanse the bones of the dead before their spirits returned to the ancestral homeland.

However, Blue Lake, as it’s known to visitors who hike within the mountains of Nelson Lakes National Park in New Zealand’s Southern Alps, is under severe threat of losing its purity.

It might be its beauty: Forming a V around the turquoise Tasman Bay, the area contains three national parks (Kahurangi, Nelson Lakes ... Abel Tasman National Park may be New Zealand’s smallest ...

this road is both a National Historic Landmark and a Civil Engineering Landmark and passes by almost every type of terrain the park offers, from glacial lakes, waterfalls and cedar forests to ...