The lake
Clear turquoise.
Milos Krstic — CC BY-SA 3.0 · D00shan — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Anja Ignjatovic — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Maja Stosic — CC BY-SA 4.0 · ZoranCvetkovic — CC BY-SA 3.0
Krupaj Spring is a karst spring in eastern Serbia, below the Beljanica limestone massif on the right bank of the Krupaj river at 220 metres, near the village of Milanovac, 35 km from Žagubica and 41 km west of Bor in a straight line. The spring's water stays between 9 and 11 °C, and its bed forms an amphitheatre with steep, nearly vertical sides. Its stream runs 435 metres before joining the Krupaj river. After a three-metre dam was built, the spring became an oval lake 40 metres long and 17 metres wide, overflowing in an attractive waterfall. Cave studies in 1998 revealed a siphon arm reaching more than 70 metres deep. The lake glows a bright, clear turquoise and blue under green forest, the water emerging from a cave opening in the limestone cliff and spilling over the dam in a wide white cascade. Visitors walk around the lake and along wooden paths, photograph the turquoise water and follow the stream towards the old mill. The water is too cold for swimming, and it gets busy on summer weekends.
Clear turquoise.
Over the dam.
Where water emerges.
Near the village of Milanovac, eastern Serbia
The water is very cold.
Spring and autumn.