Photos

The photos below are from Urabamba in Peru. The salt pans are near Maras.

Rob

A really spikey cactus!

A close up of it!

rubbing a pot to get a smooth finish as the Inca people used to do.

Some of the 3000 varieties of potatoes in Peru.

These salt pans have been used since pre-Inca times. A salty stream flows out of the mountain and is diverted into different pans to evaporate and produce salt.

The Incas appeared to know about iodine defficiency in the mountains so added seaweed to this salt when using it.

They still employ the local people and sell the salt.




This man is diverting the flow to a new pan.

Gday

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