Balinese Natural Salt Maker from Pesinggahan

felt privileged to able to just walk in on this salt makers farm right on the beachrows of palm tree trunk cut in half and carved out to then use to dry the salty water in the sun he was pretty keen to show us how it is done collect some salt water walk it back upto his “farm” farm of black volcanic beach sand and spread the water on the hot sand this is a generations old tradition of making salt and it looks so fresh and natural epicJacqui with her Pentax film camera, can’t wait to see how her photos turn out as well the layer of salt water added to, what is not, hot, black sand from the sun rays that salt water dries, and leaves a top layer of dried salt water mixed in with the sand this top layer is then gently raked together and scooped up and taken inside where it gets rinsed and filtered of any impuritiesbefore taken outside to dry in the sun a second time the salt boutique inside ( yes we bought some salt, nearly 2 kilos of it ) love how it is so simple and so pure, no chemicals no machines centuries old tradition interesting that similar salt farming happened in Europe as well, well before Indonesia and Europe was connected by trade via the sailing boata