Senegal, the Atlantic side of the lake rose the gentle touch of pink
Rally Team departure from Paris after a long journey thousands of kilometers, crossing the Mediterranean, through the Sahara desert, finally reached the end of the contest ─ Dakar, Senegal in West Africa. Endless sand dunes in Cape Verde, the wheels roll, sand filled, the engine roared to noisy, full of uproar.
However, in the dunes on the other side, but it is a different world: a pink oval-shaped lake nestled quietly in the golden desert, the blue of the Atlantic close and Bristol. Dark skin naked man driving the boat in the lake pink salvage operations, the women dressed in colorful dress of white sheets on the shore side of a busy salt dome, the air smelled faintly soothing rhythm of folk melodies, full of a Tian Ran quiet.
This is Rose Lake, the famous natural landscape of Senegal.
Rose Lake is an area of only 3 square kilometers of the lake, which is located in the western end of the continent - Cape Verde, Senegal, from Dakar, the capital of this country 35 km. As the curved tip of the hook of Cape Verde from the vast African continent, extending toward the Atlantic Ocean, nestled in the Rose Lake on the line between the ocean areas. Looking from the air, a thin golden sand and blue waters will be Bi pink lake separated. Sea and Lake are inlaid with silver and white lace ─ ocean is waves, the lake is a salt crystal, a perfect color match, Dan-nature is indeed the master.
Rose Lake is a beautiful color that halophilic microorganisms masterpiece. With the changes in water salinity, its color from light green to dark red showing the colors. December each year to next January, is the most beautiful lake rose, because of the sun and water rich in minerals, microorganisms and chemical reactions, it presents as a general pink silk, which is also the name of the rose from the lake .
It is incredible that this coated side of the Atlantic turned out to be a touch of pink demons raging fury leaves gifts. Locals say the most beautiful color of the lake when the hot wind is blowing in the east to the occasion. At that time, the salt lake algae outbreak in the hot air of the catalyst, the lake into a blooming rose.
The Atlantic pampered love roses flowers, was the Sahara desert from the distant devil ─ Bode La hollow sandstorm. Bode La hollow at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert.
Thousands of years ago, the waters of Lake Chad was here boundless expanse of blue waves. As global climate change and human development needs, this area was the North American Great Lakes with Lake Erie, one of the freshwater Great Lakes continue to dry up comparable to shrink, just in the past half-century to reduce its size by 5%. After the disappearance of bare blue lake bed into a Bode La canyons, the lake bed, the thick sedimentary diatom remains, in the Sahara became dry under the sun exposure of silicon-rich mineral sand.
The annual dry season, Sahara desert air blowing sand on the floor rolled up Bo Dela concave form clouds of sand storms. It is nearly 50 km per hour speed, squeezed through the Tibesti Mountains and the desert mountains formed Ennedi after corridor, like a golden sword, waving in the West African earth, piercing to Senegal, Cape Verde, urge to open the Atlantic, where the banks of the "rose."
Perhaps the arrangement of the Creator, burning hundreds of kilometers away in the hot sun baked the death of diatoms under the inanimate into the dry sand, and be crazy sandstorm left side of the lake in the Atlantic, triggering the lives of their relatives cyanobacteria outbreak, in full bloom out of the most wonderful nature of the "flowers" ... ... (Adapted from "National Geographic" 2011 3 the author / early morning photography / Massimo Brega)
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