Surreal beauty of Serbia: An unusual natural phenomenon on Golija - these lakes are drying up in the rainy days, and are coming back in sunshine (VIDEO)

Near monastery Studenica there are Kosanin lakes on Golija mountain which are rare natural phenomenon, and only few people in love with nature know about this.

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The lakes are unusual because the water level drops and they dry up on rainy days, and when its sunny, the lake is returning. 

Kosanin lakes are two lakes, one smaller and one larger, in a shape of ellipse, around 900 meters above sea level on Golija mountain, which UNESCO declared as Biosphere Reserve in 2001.

They got the name after Serbian botanist Nedeljko Kosanin, born in this area, who was studying lakes on Golija.

In the immediate vicinity of these lakes there is Pridvorica Monastery, on the road leading to the monastery Studenica. Hardly accessible, since there is a 6 km road leading to it and vehicles can't use it.

Experts say that the smaller lake is a water surface that empties relatively quickly, and it is few meters above sea level higher than the big lake, where water occasionally flows on side channel, 30 meters long.

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Besides drying up on rainy days, and returning on sunny, another anomaly is linked to these lakes - experts think that a part of the lake is salt water.

Botanists explorers Branislav Matijevic and Milovan Gajic determined that based on the fact that frogs are located only in the upper part of the lake.

- Gajic and Matijevic were botanists and they studied Kosanin lakes in the eighties. In the book "Flora and vegetation of Golija and Javor" they wrote that they came to conclusion that frogs can't be heard at bottom part of the lake and that the water is salty. However, there are no specific analysis on that, but the lakes are under state protection of first category, and a lot is not yet  tested on the lakes - said Dragoljub Sekler for "Blic", Warden of Nature Park Golija.

There are mainly beech, fir and spruce, and pine trees on the south side around the lake. Big Lake has specific plant formation. It formed big and tall bushes.

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Besides adventurers, mountaineers and bikers, almost no one comes to these lakes. One of the regular visitors of these lakes is Aleksandar Lazovic from Kraljevo, who said that a group of bikers always has a route in this area in the past 10 years and that it is fascinating to go over the lake which has no water.

- There are bushes you can jump on. It is interesting to see when they are in water. There are few coves, but only one with bushes this big - said Lazovic.

Legend has it that the fairies gathered here and played kolo around these lakes. According to the myth, every bush represents one fairy. 

Watch what Kosanin lakes look like: 

(Telegraf.co.uk)