The lake that turns life to stone!

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A bird statue lies at a dead tree branch in the lake area, it seems like someone has made it. But in the lake, who made it? Actually, it’s not an artificial statue, it was alive. Is it magic or folktale? No, it is real and there are scientific reasons behind. 

The ghastly salt Lake Natron lies in northern Tanzania, near the border with Kenya. It is one of the most serene lakes in Africa. The lake basin is approximately 65 km long, and 22 km wide although on average only 20% of this is ever covered by water. Arriving there you will see the shores of this lake are covered with thousands of intact petrified bird and animal corpses that have washed ashore. The birds appear to have been preserved almost perfectly, feathers and all. Nature forced them to be transformed into this form. Read more