Cars filled with salt straight from the Salar drive to Colchani. There the salt is processed (purified / iodine added) and packaged.
Colchani is a small village on the edge of the Uyuni Salar.
Houses are built with salt blocs or adobe blocs.
Another vintage truck....
More adobe and salt bloc houses in Colchani.
Piles of salt near the "factory".
The entrance
Oven to heat/dry the brine.
Inside the factory - the salt is put on this plate above the oven.
The purified salt.
The grinding machine.
This man fills the smaller bags (they come in different sizes) with the ground salt.
Finally the bags are sealed.
Bags ready to be transported.
Whenever putting salt into food, I'll be thinking for a long time of this factory and the man, filling the bags, one after the other, day by day......
