{"id":48212,"date":"2026-01-07T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=48212"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:07:55","slug":"big-lake-almaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/big-lake-almaty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Lake of Almaty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nestled in the heart of the mountains at an altitude of 2,511 meters, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Almaty_Lake\">Big Lake of Almaty<\/a><\/strong>, with its azure blue water and pine forests, is a natural alpine reservoir located 15 km south of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Almaty\">Almaty<\/a><\/strong> in<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kazakhstan\">Kazakhstan<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2023, the road leading to the lake has been closed to motor vehicles for environmental reasons. However, it is possible to reach it on foot or by bike; the 10 km ride offers magnificent panoramic views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Credits: Marie Cl\u00e9mino<\/strong>, France<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Find <a style=\"color: #f57d20; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\">all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/novastan\/you-can-buy-novastans-pictures-of-the-day\/\">here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to <a href=\"mailto:photo@novastan.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Lake of Almaty, with its azure blue water and pine forests, is a natural alpine reservoir located 15 km south of Almaty in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":48214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[590,4902,470,4366,4002],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-48212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-almaty","tag-big-lake-of-almaty","tag-kazakhstan","tag-mountain","tag-photo-of-the-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48216,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48212\/revisions\/48216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48212"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=48212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}