Flooded salt marshes of environmentally protected
Algarve Province of southern Portugal.

Flooded salt marshes of environmentally protected
Algarve Province of southern Portugal.

Evaporation basins of hard, sun-baked clay called "salinas'.

Evaporation by wind and sun
transforms the sea into salt crystals.

Eden Portuguese Sea Salt hand harvested by salters
called 'marenotos' using long wooden rakes.

Eden Portuguese Sea Salt hand harvested by salters
called 'marenotos' using long wooden rakes.

Eden Portuguese Sea Salt hand harvested by salters
called 'marenotos' using long wooden rakes.

Hand harvested sea salt piled in the sun.

Hand harvested sea salt piled in the sun.