Tag: salt
2011
03.23
Salt Rain

Crazy man eats salt of the earth, says it tastes like a giant potato chip, but really salty Celestún means three things to us: sea, birds and salt. There is a wonderful and strange ecosystem that exists here due to the confluence of fresh-water and salt-water forming what is called an estuary. To the east [...]

2009
02.24
Laos Used to Have a Sea

Baskets with salt Ms Douk took us out on a little sightseeing tour today and one of the things we visited was a salt factory where they mined salt from an ancient underground dried sea where they pumped it to the surface and let the water evaporate and then boiled it in large baths to [...]