The winter conditions mean that animals like the flamingos, kangaroos, impalas and giraffes have been pulled from their snow-drenched haunts. |
Up go illuminated pink flamingos, Chinese lanterns, chile-pepper lights, and glowing plastic Santas. |
In the early spring, flamingos land on the salt flats while in the autumn, the Cypriots celebrate the harvest of the vines with a wine festival. |
For half the year this is a salt lake full of krill, which in turn attracts millions of flamingos. |
Outside the formal main bar was a pond, home to a dozen or more pink flamingos. |
In fact, African flamingos get their pink color from eating a diet super-rich in the pinkish blue-green algae, spirulina. |