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Saturday 2004-06-05 - Neyriz, Iran
Salt lakes
On the way to Shirāz, a very long trip today, we pass several large salt lakes. Just past Neyriz where the road winds through the mountains over two passes, there’s a beautiful view of enormous Lake Bakhtegān (Daryācheh-ye-Bakhtegān) and we stop for pictures. A wide fringe of the lake is white with encrusted salt which is mined here — before we stopped we saw many large sheds and big piles of white salt.
Further on, some 20 km before Shirāz, we make another stop near teh much smaller Lake Mahārlu where the road comes near the shore. A couple of avocets are feeding in the shallow water near the shore, but fly up when we approach over the salt-encrusted mud. Salt is mined at this lake, too (at the south end) though at a much smaller scale than at Lake Bakhtegān.
