unknown seasonal lake "tadag taal" of almora (uttarakhand), which only filled with water for 1-2 month during rainy season. this lake is near nainital lake size, but even local people dont know about it. i went here for 2 times, but found dry field here due to bad timing. people do wheat farming in it, when it dried up. distance between almora to tadagtaal is near 85 km. View: https://youtu.be/OVyTrGRWqgY?si=z-pYOj51Acifj4ng
there r 9 lakes (one get dried, known as sukha taal) near nainital (uttarakhand), within 60-80 km range. u can visit all of them in half day, if u hv future plan to visit nainital.
let discuss about 8 lakes near nainital:-
1:- nainital.
6:- garud taal - this lake is consider that mahabharat lake, where gandharva take test of pandavas. this is also consider haunted lake, coz its only one lake which hv no human houses etc near it. unfortunately some missionary makes christian things (cross, ashram) near it. although i dont know, it build during british time period or after independence. View: https://youtu.be/LjqZwpjqkM4?si=bkCV1ylFRAdQpfRy
7:- sat tal = its 300-400 meter near garud tal. this is big lake. it is mix of 3 lakes (ram tal, sita tal nd laxman tal). if u want quite places, u can skip nainital nd come here. u will find two lakes, one seasonal lake, track nd waterfall also.
there is track near this lake....where one dried lake hanuman tal nd one seasonal lake bharat tal (which only appear in rainy time) exist. there is small waterfall also near it. this track is good for bird watching.