Brilliant wild salt lake in Crimea

Not only does it provide a huge amount of salt, the salt marshes in Sivash (Crimea) also give viewers great views.

The colorful images were taken by photographer Sergey Anashkevych when he was traveling by train on the Crimea.

Along the train route is the Sivash salt mine stretching or also known as the Rotten Sea (Rotten Sea). It used to be a huge salt mine in the former Soviet Union, and now Crimea is partially exploited, left abandoned. Although quite popular with locals but for tourists, this place is still quite strange.

The salt marshes here are very shallow with an average depth of only 50cm to 1m. The deepest place is only about 3m. The bottom of the lagoon is covered with a layer of mud up to 5m thick. The salinity of water in the lagoon is up to 87%.

In summer, high temperatures make the water evaporate causing an unpleasant stench. This is also the reason why here is called the Rotten Sea.

'It's hard to use descriptive words. The scenery here is amazing, its smell is not pleasant at all , 'said the 36-year-old photographer.

It is estimated that in addition to marine algae, there are more than 200 million tons of condensed salt in Sivash, which brings the largest source of export products to the Crimea.

Pink salts are the result of strong growth of Halobacteria algae in saltwater conditions.