Lake Endine is peculiarly charming during springtime: motor boats are forbidden, and it is a pleasure to discover it on a pedal-boat that you can easily rent on its shores or on a canoe.
In the small villages surrounding the lake you can find a lot of churches, rich in works of art, and medieval castles.

Surrounded by a bed of reeds, Spinone al Lago is a wonderful place to visit, with its many beautiful restaurants and the opportunity to have a nice trip by boat. Other villages worth mentioning include Monasterolo del Castello, well-known for its castle dating from the thirteenth-century and Endine Gaiano with its remarkable Romanesque church. At the bottom of the valley lies Lake Gaiano, a small lake surrounded by thick beds of reeds and dotted with water-lilies. To reach it, just leave the main road and go into the thicket of canes' labyrinth. It is a tiny pearl of nature, which is worth being seen at close quarters. Especially during spring and autumn, with the help of a pair of binoculars, you can see: garganeys, mallards, coots, water-hens, great crested grebes, herons. The lake as well as the bottom of the valley, including lake Gaiano is a natural paradise where crayfish and water-snakes live together.


To appreciate the lake walk down the muletracks going from Endine and the right shore up to Ranzanico and from here to Bianzano where you can find the marvellous fourteenth-century Suardi castle. There are lots of panoramic paths from which you can enjoy an amazing view over the underlying lake Endine, the upper side of lake Iseo, the Adamello chain and all the tops of the Orobie pre-alps. One of them leads to Malga Lunga, a farmhouse recently restored, containing a Museum on Italian Resistance and where you can have a good meal and stay overnight.
The neighbouring Valle del Freddo (Valley of cold), lying at 400 meters above sea level, is a natural reserve of great interest with an impressive alpine vegetation which is quite unusual at this height. This is due to a series of underground currents of cold air coming out of openings (mouths) in the ground giving out freezing air in summer, that create a microclimate similar to the Alpine one. A few kilometres away, in the hearth of the Cavallina Valley, in an oasis of peace, you find Gaverina's Spa, where you can combine hydrotherapy with different leisure activities, artistic itineraries and food and wine routes.

Watersport
	Lake Iseo offers a wide range of healthy sports activities: swimming, windsurfing, fishing, canoeing, canyoning, scuba diving, and sailing. Water sports are closely connected to the life on the lakeside where the building of boats dates back to immemorial times and wind and water have always been part of a daily challenge. Today, sailing is the most practised sport. In sailing clubs it is possible to rent a sailing boat by showing the qualification, or to find teachers and improve your sailing techniques. In the last few years, thanks to the fresh breezes blowing from lakeside small valleys, several places have become also surfers' favourite destination. A ship building industry has developed to meet everybody's requirements. Besides Monte Isola shipyards, specialized in building boats in an old-fashioned way, there are Riva's shipyards, worldwide famous for the beauty and the charm of their boats.