The Ancient Salt Pans of Peru
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- Originally built by the Incas, the manmade salt pans in Maras, Peru, have endured for over 500 years. Beneath the Qaqawiñay mountains runs a salty fresh spring, which empties into 3,000 mountainside pools. The sun heats them, evaporating the water and leaving the natural salt crystals behind. Each pool is still hand-mined, much the same as when the Incas were there. On this breathtaking hillside, it's easy to marvel at Mother Nature and the ingenuity of humankind.
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I have found the Internet. The world's most efficient salt factory.
TYT is the best for salt mining.
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Just play League of Legends and get free salt from shit players.
Salmon Fish I agree I mean lead is ok
What is relation between internet and salt kindly expain.
Legend has it that the salt comes from the internet.
thank you for uploading this, but it would be more interesting if you also show us how they mine the salt (in that kind of conditions). thank you!
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Hi big story you need to show our salt production too
Love some of those low moving shots. Thanks for sharing. Subbed!
I have been there, it's an amazing place
Me jealous
Been there too.
has anyone noticed that ancient civilizations seemed more smart then us.... the great wall ...... pyramids the floating city of the Aztecs ... I mean why were there more great architecture then today?
More possibilities and freedom. No strict laws and monarchs could spend years taxes and tens of thousands of workers to build.
"We are amazed because building massive structures without sophisticated machines and tools seems amazing to us today. We haven't "lost" anything though. People kept right on building amazing structures right the way through history. The pyramids, the Acropolis, the Aqueducts, hundreds of amazing Cathedrals, etc....When you see a 2 year old doing calc-I work, you're impressed, even if you're far ahead. Because you're not a 2 year old. You're impressed that, given the conditions, they are able to complete such a task.
We stand on the shoulders of giants. What we can do is all based on the work of our predecessors. We are no smarter than the ancient peoples-biologically, it must be so. Remember, knowledge is not intelligence. There is no evidence that modern people are any smarter than ancient people, and there's no reason either."
In a thousand years, someone will be saying that about us.
Back then that would be considered modern tech and, in a way, we marvel at their ingenuity - the fact that they knew what salt was and how they figured out how to farm it.
In a thousand years, I can imagine anthropologists in awe over how we knew how to conduct electricity and operate machinery as they would have tech that far surpasses us in every area.
I'm sorry but the great Wall is nothing compared to the Hoover Dam people in the past sure did some amazing things but engineering today is far more advanced
leanore Davies that's an interesting point.
This video was shot recently (January?) during the rainy season - it's surprising how much the salt pans change from the dry season (July). In the winter they're pure white from all the stray crystallized salt, now they're quite brown from the muddy runoff in and around the ponds.
The same ponds in July: ua-cam.com/video/N6MOfLK82r4/v-deo.html
I found a league of legends players hideout
Awesome story!
Nothing less than a wonder
A beautiful place and a real delicious gourmet mineral salt! It depends even how beautiful it looks when you go there. Later in the year, outside of the rain season the Salineras in Peru get's even more beautiful! It's in a side valley of the Sacred Valley of the Inca's close to Machu Picchu, awesome place and very nice well kept heritage!
I've been there and it's amazing!
Me, jealous
video starts at 0:00 thank me later...
Scribble how original and funny
Scribble Thanks
LoL
lol
Thank you.
It’s little places like this that make earth look like something out of an alien planet
itsnot only 500 years ago it is more than 2000 years ago that this beautiful place exits!
I thought the same thing. 500 years ago? Sheesh, not even close.
geez these videos are so aesthetic
Wow just wow humans
The internet in a shellnut
@I HATE TOUCANS That's the joke.
we have this in ancash too
this is beautiful
This is great but it would be a lot better if it was a bit longer bit more info stretch out like a 10-15 minute video that would be fantastic
Those Inca people are still salt-of-the-earth.
This is like hagdanghagdang palayan (a rice field but looks like this) here in the Philippines.
The only ads I let play, all the way through.
😍wow
Very mosaic
Xlnt 👍👏
Now all I need are lemons.
0:26 i was boiling water, thought my kettle was whistling
cool
I truly recommend to just upload one video per day.
why are the pools different colors?
Does anyone else think the narrator sounds like Drew from The Mythical Crew that makes Good Mythical Morning?
My man, do you go there by yourself to film all your videos?
my country 😁
You have coca there send me it's a deal !
Yo I must live here if there's this much salt
So we gonna ignore the fact that people who work for this pans of salts get paid 5 dollars of payment just for a full bag?
My salt comes from the supermarket.
Ha yeah " Great Big Story" bruh 1.5 mins aint cutting it boss
some is so salty
HI
I think you're talking about my school not a salt plain
Why don't they just go to the store and buy some salt? Oh wait...
salt terraces
It's .. salty.
that was salty
like
is that dota 2 players?
Ha coka weeny
r/triphobia
Greb me tal
We don't need this salt pan we have multiplayer games
500 years isn’t “ancient”
Jonathan F Everyone knows that. She specifically said “500” years.
You should see the salt pools in Pamukkale, Turkey. They look way beautiful than this !!
Murat Kaya. Do you sell or trade this lovely salt...
Murat Kaya You could've just said check if out. This is not a culture race to see who's best.
Who said anything about cultures. I meant there are better looking salt pools out there. Read carefully Tran101
Murat Kaya I guess I meant it's not a race. Every place in nature has its beauty. However yes, you are correct. That was reckless on my part.
I've been to Pamukkale. It's beautiful there, but it's not salt. It's limestone and calcium carbonate. I'd love to visit these salt pools in Peru, that area looks amazing.
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