Chanderkup Lake " known as 'Ice Berg Lake ' situated in district Chamba, Himachal Pradesh."

 District Chamba of Himachal Pradesh is having very beautiful and wonderful landscapes like Mini-Switzerland Khajjiar, Chaugaan ground, it's beautiful rivers, Manimahesh, Kalatop wildlife Sanctuary and Lama-Dal lake, Ghadarasu Mahadev lake and Dhauladhar mountains which adds to the immense natural beauty of this area. In its beautiful hills just on two hours trekking from Lama-Dal lake there is another lake named "Chanderkup dal . "

                  Floating Ice Blocks in the Lake

The Chanderkup lake is a high altitude lake in Chamba district situated at an altitude of about 4100 metres from mean sea level. The lake remains frozen, even in summer  floating ice blocks can be seen which look like Ice Berg lake in Montana United States, this is why this lake is also called "Ice Berg lake. "

   Beautiful View of Ice Berg lake at Montana (U.S.) 

The Chanderkup is also known as Moon Lake. It is on two hours trekking from Lama-Dal leke. People used to visit this lake during the month of August. 

                 Morning View of Ice frozen lake

Here we can see that there are three lakes which are named moon lakes but with a little difference in names, the location wise position is as under :-

1.Chander tal (The Lake of Moon) Lahaul-Spiti. 

2. Chanderkup (Moon Lake) Chamba district

3. Chandernahan Lake  Rohru district Shimla. 

Some other beautiful views of ice lakes are :-

                     View of floating ice in Lake

               Ice Mountains around the Lake

The Himachal Pradesh has its immense beauty in its wonderful geography and climates and has numerous attractions from tourism point of view. one must visit Himachal with family and friends, when feel stress from over work and severe climates. 

                                  By :- Er. R C Verma