Our 'to see' list started out pretty small. After we arrived, though, it kept growing. Watching 'Fun Taiwan' (seriously, check it out, it's an absolutely fantastic show about things to do and see in Taiwan!), listening to my coworkers chat about things they had done or seen, and doing some research ourselves really gave us some good reasons to explore this island!
This stop: the salt museum, salt mountain and salt fields
Yes, it's shaped like a pyramid of salt.
"First, dry the salt soil, over which seawater was repeatedly poured, would crystallize, dry up and then be plowed into a salt leak pond. The floor of the salt leak pond was then stamped on, and seawater was continuously poured over it. High concentration brine would be filtered through a bamboo tube in the leak pond. Finally, the crystalline salt and the exposed brine of the tile-floor salt fields would be collected to extract the salt."
(From the museum of salt)
There were so many of these amazing dioramas showcasing various steps of the salt-making process. They were so realistic!
In Ottawa's Museum of Civilization there is a map of Canada. Manitoulin Island didn't make the map. Every time I see it I get so annoyed. Here in Taiwan, Manitoulin made the world map. So we compared it to Taiwan with a 10 NT piece. It's roughly the size of a quarter.
Manitoulin looks so tiny in comparison!
One basket of salt weighed about 220 pounds. These did NOT weigh that much!
Salt uses:
chlor-alkali industry- 60%
food industry- 19%
ice-melting road salt-11%
animal husbandry and others- 5%
Salted chocolate popsicles. They were okaaaaay.
Gorgeous salt fields!!
In 2001 the total salt production was 225 million tons. One-fifth of that was from the States.
Cracks me up.
Trying our hands at raking salt.
Can you spot the gringo?
I see a couple familiar faces!!
That's not snow!
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