The Pink Lake

 The Pink Lake o Lac Reba is located in the north of the Senegalese peninsula of Cape Verde, northeast of African country. 

The pink adjective comes from the colors of its water, which become especially rosaceous during the dry season. This is because of an algae called Dunaliella Salina. That makes a red pigment to absorb sunlight. The high level of salinity allows, as in the Dead Sea, people to float easily. 

Around the lake are small extractive salt farms that began in the 1970s. Men with water to their chest, break with canes the salt deposited in the bottom before collecting it with shovels and filling canoes with a capacity of up to one ton. Women unload the canoes and accumulate salt on the edge of the lake to dru it and bleach it in the sun. Both men and women are protected from corrosive salinity by uniting with shea butter. Salt is intended for canned fish or export. 

The lake is know worldwide for having been the arrival of the Paris Dakar rally in almost all its editions until 2008, when the organization decided to suspend the competition and move it to South America from 2008.