A salty stream flows down the mountain and fills each pool with water, farmers then decide when to stop the flow to their pool to allow the water to evaporate. As the water evaporates salt is left in the spot, the families use primitive tools to collect and mine the salt.

Salty Stream.

Salty Stream Flowing Into Pools.

Working Together to Gather the Salt.

Evaporated Salt Pools.

The road down to the salt flats is narrow and on the edge of the cliff, but just trust your driver during this part! We arrived at the mines just as they were closing so we were lucky to have them almost entirely to ourselves!

Alone Amongst the Salt!

Working Together on the Salt Pools.

Our plan was to walk across all the salt mines and down the hill on the other side to a small town to have lunch. Because of this we had a very unique tour and views of all the mines from every angle! It was so cool to see families working on the their pools and seeing the tools up close!

Salt Floating.

Loved the Design and Look of the Pools.

Micro Climates of Moray, You can read all about that here.

Love the Symmetry!

Surrounding the salt mines there are several family stalls selling salt of course but also very delicious chocolate! And if you try the chocolate with the salt in it, wow! Great place to stock up on salt and for really great prices, right at the source, can’t think of a better place to get it! We all stocked up on both salt and chocolate and gifted it to our family and friends to share our trip!

So Much Yummy Salt.