These Clearest & Bluest Water Bodies In India Should Be Your New HAPPY Place

Sometimes distressed nerves and wandering minds are best resolved at the sight of an enchanting lake. And on the banks of benevolent rivers have nurtured civilizations and intellectuals for centuries.

If you have been looking for a philosophical retreat, then embrace these natural marvels of spirituality and calm.

"Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does."

– Margaret Atwood.

Credits: Feng Zhong
Pichola Lake, Udaipur

"I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers but hold up a ship."

– Michelle Williams

Credits: Michal
Chandratal, Lahaul-Spiti

"The water sustains me without even trying
The water can't drown me, I'm done
With my dying."

– Laura Marling

Credits: Dan Markeye
Tuipui River, Mizoram

“It was one of those places where mist lingers well into the day and the dawn chorus starts early.” 

― Fennel Hudson

Credits: Kanksha
Dal Lake, Srinagar

"A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable."

– William Wordsworth

Credits: Ashish
Parashar Lake, Himachal Pradesh

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

–Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Credits: Aayush
Pangong Tso, Ladakh

"Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship."

– H.M. Tomlinson

Credits: Kartik
Gurudongmar Lake, North Sikkim

"The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea."

– Isak Dinesen

Credits: Eleonor
Backwaters, Kerala

"Take your shoes off," purred the ocean waves.

–Dr. SunWolf

Vembanad Lake, Kerala

"The water. The lake. It flows through our veins, and there's nothing we can do about it… It's like venom.” 

– Karen Katchur

Tsongmo Lake, Sikkim

"Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty."

–Rumi 

Credits: DukeKashmir
Manasbal Lake, Kashmir

"The water. The lake. It flows through our veins, and there's nothing we can do about it… It's like venom.” 

― Karen Katchur

Credits: All Resource
Loktak Lake, Assam

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It’s always our self we find in the sea."

–e.e. cummings

Credits: Architecture Online
Agatti Island

"No man steps in the same river twice. For it's not the same river and he's not the same man."

Heraclitus

Credits: Sudipto
Teesti River

"The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire."

Pamela Hansford Johnson

Credits: Sam Hawley
Ganga, Varanasi