Rainbow world: the most colourful places on Earth – in pictures
Blooming tulip fields in the Netherlands. Photograph: Hollandluchtfoto/Getty ImagesLake Retba in Senegal – the pink tint is due to the presence of algae called Dunaliella salina. Photograph: SPL/Barcroft MediaBlack Rock Desert in Nevada. Photograph: Jeff Foott
Mount Roraima at the triple border point between Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana. Photograph: Alamy‘The Wave’, a 190m-year-old Jurassic-age sandstone rock formation in Arizona. Photograph: Blaine Harrington III/CorbisThe Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park. Photograph: Xuan Che/Getty ImagesRock formations at the Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in Gansu Province, China. Photograph: Xin Ran/CorbisMustard fields in Yunnan province, China. Photograph: Katie Garrod/CorbisThe Door to Hell in Turkmenistan. Photograph: Getty ImagesDallol, a volcanic crater in Ethiopia. Photograph: Dr. Richard RoscoeThe marble caves of Lago Carrera, Chile. Photograph: George Lepp/CorbisCamel thorn trees in Namibia. Photograph: Alamy
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