Camargue France Salt. If I had signed up for the full day tour the tour would have continued to Aigues-Mortes Salt Marsh the largest salt marsh in the Mediterranean where the. For an unusual trip take the D36 road south from Arles on the west bank of the Rhone.
The Salin is also the meeting place of the Mediterranean Sea and from the Camargue land. The Camargue spreads like a fan from the ancient Roman city of Arles and in its folds lie green rice paddies rose-colored salt flats grass-filled marshes and wide windswept beaches. Aigues- Mortes is a small fortified medieval city located in the Camargue.
In the Camargue salt can be found widely in the soil and the nature of the flat and clayey land dotted with ponds lends itself well to the extraction of sea salt.
It is a natural product from the south of France. The crystals are hand-raked and harvested in the area during summer and every salt worker harvests them at dawn from the surface of the water. While these ponds are industrially harvested for their salt the pink color of the water is naturally occurring in the salt marshes of the area caused by halophile dunaliella salina algae. At the heart of unspoilt nature and a rare biodiversity the salt marshes are.
