😱The Lake That Turns Animals Into Stone! CONTEXT: Did you know there’s a lake in Africa so deadly that it can literally turn any living being into stone? This is Lake Natron, a surreal blood-red lake in northern Tanzania, near the border with Kenya. From the sky, it looks mesmerizing — painted in shades of crimson, orange, and gold — but beneath that beauty lies one of the most extreme environments on Earth. Deep under the Great Rift Valley, volcanic activity feeds the lake with sodium carbonat