Lonar Lake

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Situated in Buldhana District of Maharastra, Lonar Lake is the third largest natural salt-water lake in the world. It has also a dam of 1800 m. and it is 170 metres deep. Lonar Lake comes after Bosmatvi Lake in Ghana, which has a diameter of 10000 m and New Cubec in Canada with a Dai of 3500 m.

Lonar is a tremendously striking place. The place also has an importance of its own as it is has the only lake in India that is bent out of hypervelocity meteorite impact. The hollow that is formed because of the impact is the third largest Crater Lake in the world. The fact revealed after the Geological studies that the lake is more than 40, 000 years old.

The destination is significant not just for its crater lake; rather it is imperative also for its magnificent temples. Today, however, nothing but the ruins of the temple remains. The village around the crater is abounding with legend of Lonar. Tourist can also see numerous peafowl, lots of migratory birds that has made the crater their home.

Lonar Lake is renowned for it's strange natural phenomenon. This great lake shaped due to the fall of a meteor from the sky. Another incredible phenomenon is the incessant flow of water through a 'Gomukh'. It is also an ancient religious place with countless legends about it. Ruins of many temples of 'Pauranic' age are still found here.

It is supposed that it was created 50,000 years ago by the crash of a huge meteor that descended on earth. The depression is roughly 7 km in circumstance and 1.8 km in diameter. It is the largest and oldest meteoric crater in the world.