Beautiful Salt Pans, Tegguiada-In-Tessoum, Niger

Salt – an essential ingredient in our diet is produced by evaporation of seawater or brine sources like salt lakes, brine wells/pans and by mining of rock salt. Since the salt lakes and salt ponds/pans/flats have high level of salinity, salt-loving micro-organisms including algae thrive in these places. These make their own food by photosynthesis which gives these salty water bodies hues of various colours varying from green to orange to red. These colours present a beautiful and breathtaking views in aerial imagery of Google Earth. One such image of Lake Natron, World's most caustic body of water, Tanzania was covered earlier in this Travelogue. [Link]

Here are the salt pans at Tegguiada-In-Tessoum, Niger which look like beautiful cobbled stones.

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Note: The aerial imagery shown here is part of "Africa Megaflyover" Photographs by J. Michael Fay and are included in National Geographic Layer of Google Earth.