BOLIVIA | Monday, 4 February 2008 | Views [323]
This lake is called Laguna Colorada. It is a bright adobe-red lake fringed with cakey-white minerals. It is only 25 km or 15 miles from the Chilean border. Most lakes in this area of Bolivia have several important minerals. This is why so many flamingoes live here. They eat the minerals and the micro-organisms that survive in these harsh conditions. In most of these lakes there are no fish. The flamingoes gain there beautiful colours from aging and from what they eat.
