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Less than an hour away from the capital city of Senegal there is an unusual lake that will surely catch the unsuspecting visitor’s eye because of its unusual yet vivid pink colour.

The lake has been the finish point of the well-known Dakar Rally before it moved to South America.

The Dunaliella salina bacteria which gives the lake its distinct color is completely harmless to humans and swimming in the lake is possible.

Situated in the northwest of Hunan Province, Zhangjiajie is known for its strange-shaped pillars, charming valleys, seas of cloud, and limestone caves. It is one of the must-see scenic areas in China.

It is famous for its precarious peaks, limpid streams, dense forests, and large karst caves.

Rising from the subtropical and temperate forests Zhangjiajie has a concentration of quartzite sandstone formations found nowhere else in the world.

When it was built in 1998, the 88-storey Petronas Towers held the top record for the tallest building in the world at a staggering height of 1,483 feet!

The shape of its design was designed to be based on the five pillars of the Islamic religion. When viewed from the top of this towering structure, the cross-section of the towers reflects the eight-pointed star symbol of Islamic culture.

As one of the most renowned landmarks of Malaysia, the Twin Towers have been featured in many international films.

The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre at Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

It is one of the 20th century's most famous and distinctive buildings.

Sydney Opera House sits on Bennelong Point. Bennelong Point was named after Woollarawarre Bennelong, a senior Eora man at the time of the arrival of British colonisers in Australia in 1788.

Over three handreds cherry trees bloom along promenade of the north coast of Lake Kawaguchiko.

In Japan, the appearance of cherry blossoms, known as sakura, signals the beginning of spring.

The arrival of these flowers is an annual event so significant, that there are forecasts pinpointing exactly when and where the flowers are expected to bloom.

Wisteria Garden is a private garden in the wooded hills south of central Kitakyushu, famous for its spectacularly presented, large numbers of wisteria flowers.

The garden is opened to the public seasonally during the wisteria season which usually peaks around late April to early May and during the maple leaf season in autumn.

The garden's most prominent features are two, roughly 100 meter long tunnels made of wisteria trees of differing varieties and colors, ranging from white to dark purple.

Fiordland National Park is New Zealand’s largest national park and one of Earth’s last remaining untouched wilderness

Fiordland National Park is in the southwest of New Zealand’s South Island. It’s known for the glacier-carved fiords of Doubtful and Milford sounds.

In 1986, Fiordland National Park was individually recognised as a World Heritage Site, and in 1990, together with three other national parks to the north, as part of the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage Area.

The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in the United States, and the third largest in the world

Its colors match most of those seen in the rainbow dispersion of white light by an optical prism: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue.

The vivid colors in the spring are the result of microbial mats around the edges of the mineral-rich water.

The Rainbow Mountains of China within the Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park are a geological wonder of the world.

These famous Chinese mountains are known for their otherworldly colors that mimic a rainbow painted over the tops of rolling mountains.

The Rainbow Mountains are cretaceous sandstones and siltstones that were deposited in China before the Himalayan Mountains were formed.

The sand and silt was deposited with iron and trace minerals that provided it with the key ingredient to form the colors we see today.

Caño Cristales - The River of Seven Colors is a Colombian river located in the Serrania de la Macarena province of Meta, and is a tributary of the Guayabero River

The Liquid Rainbow is caused by a unique phenomena: a red plant – Macarenia clavigera – growing in the riverbed. Other colors come from black rocks, green algae, blue water and yellow sand, producing an iridescent effect.

The river also features waterfalls, pools and caverns, making it even more dramatic. Furthermore – there are no fish or other creatures, so visitors can enjoy uninterrupted bathing in Caño Cristales.