Comments on: Salt Farming in Thailand

By: Bangkok

Bangkok — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:17:10 +0000

Great post, I love it when things are covered in such detail!
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By: Talen

Talen — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:09:53 +0000

Malcolm, there’s a good chance with more people writing about it and showing pictures that it could be the next huge tourist attraction…yeah, probably not but interesting to us non the less.

By: Talen

Talen — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:07:35 +0000

Cat, I would explain how to take pictures from a moving vehicle but I haven’t a clue…it’s just luck. Whenever I take pics from a car more than half usually turn out the others are just nice blurs.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:25:46 +0000

Talen, when I first read your post I thought that you must have amazing control over time; stopping at each and every subject of interest while cruising through Thailand.

Time is a problem that I am often faced with, because if I stopped at everything I took a fancy to in Thailand, I’d never get anywhere.

But now I read that instead of controlling time, you have fantastic control over your camera while riding by at 50mph.

Sigh. I have yet to acquire that talent. Most of my drive-by photos are strings of colour, reminiscent of the ’70s.
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By: malcolm

malcolm — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:16:35 +0000

Talen , thank you sooo much for the details of the process of making the salt , I never knew it was done that way, and the pictures are great , we rode by the salt farming one time , but I was taking a nap and didn't know what I was looking at and had forgotten about it till your post , now I MUST go back and look and take pictures for myself . thanks again. Malcolm .-= malcolm´s last blog ..WHEN IS A HAIRCUT MORE THAN JUST A HAIRCUT???? =-.

By: Talen

Talen — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:56:55 +0000

Mike, I thought I had some photos of the windmills but I couldn’t find them and the only picture I had of the wooden conveyor belts didn’t turn out.

I’m actually amazed that these pictures turned out as most were taken at 50mph…although a few shots happened as we slowed to a stop for a checkpoint.

By: Talen

Talen — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:54:18 +0000

From what I gathered Martyn this salt is used mainly for cooking but not positive.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:51:10 +0000

Talen, like you when I first visited Samut Sakhon I wondered what the white fields were. A little investigation led me on the same route.

As you say a great way to use natural resources-not a plastic bag in sight!

I haven’t photographed them so its nice to see your excellent pictures-did you take any of the small windmills which would look great against the blue sky and white salt?
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By: Martyn

Martyn — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:54:52 +0000

Talen this is something that has interested me in the past. Ban Dung which is in Udon Thani Province is very heavily into salt farming but until I read this post I didn’t know the process.

As you approach Ban Dung there are loads of roadside vendors selling bags of salt and on each side of the road are the watery salt farms.

I’m not sure what type of salt it is but my guess would be rock rather than table salt. Wilai says she sometimes buys some and puts it down the toilet…strange but it either acts as some kind of fungus type killer or as a water softener, probably the former.
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