This is not to be taken with a pinch of salt but a preferable handful! River water collected in built up areas is left to evaporate and leave behind piles of muddied salt which is then reformed to a point of domestic use. In Goa, salt is used for coconut and other fruit bearing trees.

The salt pans have a dual significance – in the production of crude organic salt and being the natural habitat of unique halophilic archaebacteria which could be harnessed for agricultural and industrial use.

The Machila

Affordable only by the affluent and the ladies who took seated strolls for leisure! This mode is demonstrated at “Ancestral Goa” and a photograph taken seated upon this mode here is one for the Souvenir books!