The waters of Senegal's Lake Retba are back to their famous pink hues three years after floods washed away their rosy ...

This pink color comes from millions of halobacterium that live in the lake and transmit the pigments in their cells through the water. Since the Great Salt Lake has no outlet, salt brought into ...

Widely known as the "Pink Lake," Retba is a magnet for tourists, lying 40 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of the capital Dakar. Separated from the Atlantic by a narrow dune, the shallow lake is so ...

The waters of Senegal's Lake Retba are back to their famous pink hues three years after floods washed away their rosy tinge -- and businessfolk and tourists are thrilled. No sooner had the news hit ...