MR8913 Lake Tuz, Turkey

MR8913 Lake Tuz, Turkey, 2024.

Lake Tuz, Central Anatolia, Turkey. This very shallow lake (1-2 meters) is normally 80 km long and 50 km wide, at an altitude of 905 m above sea level. The lake’s waters have an extremely high salinity, and in summer the water evaporates almost completely, exposing a salt deposit averaging 30 cm thick. In winter, some of the salt dissolves back into the fresh water introduced into the lake as a result of heavy winter rainfall. The extraction of salt from the lake, which accounts for 70% of the salt consumed in Turkey. In 2001, Lake Tuz and the surrounding steppe were declared a protected area. Turkey’s largest nesting colony of pink flamingos resides on a group of islands in the southern part of the lake. 

Treat yourself with an exhibition quality, fine art photographic print, signed by the hand of Matthieu Ricard, buddhist monk, photographer and author. He has also been the French interpreter of His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama since 1989. Some of the photographs in his collection are printed in limited edition, signed, numbered and delivered with a certificate of authenticity.