About this episode

Hugalina and Kissalina embark on an adventure to a magical pink lake in Senegal, learning about love and the power of connection.

Your kid can pick the next Goop! Go to Vote — takes 20 seconds, and you'll get our free screen guide just for voting. Hugalina and Kissalina are the most affectionate twin Goops in all of Goop World — Hugalina hugs everything in sight whether it asks for it or not, and Kissalina never meets anything without first reaching for her shimmering pot of vanilla lip balm. When a mysterious glowing pink rock at the edge of the meadow hums back at them, the twins do the only thing they know how to do: Hugalina wraps it in her gold-trimmed blanket and Kissalina presses her lips to its surface — and the rock pulls them both straight into its rosy center. They land with an enormous splash in the extraordinary bubblegum-pink waters of Lake Retba in Senegal, where salt harvesters move through the shallows with flat baskets on their heads and pink pelicans stand unbothered on the shore. But when a fallen basket disturbs the living microorganisms that give the lake its color, the water turns a deep, ominous red — and something beneath the surface begins to pull. Will Kissalina's most prized possession be enough to calm a lake that has been alive longer than anyone can remember? And what does a…

People in this episode

Host: Maria Calanchini

Topics covered

• friendship
• adventure
• imagination
• love
• family
• nature

Keywords

• Goop Tales
• Hugalina
• Kissalina
• Lake Retba
• Senegal
• pink lake
• friendship
• adventure

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Senegal, Lake Retba

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