4th March … continuing from last post, so still in Amakusa but leaving Hondo city.
View over Hondo ( from museum)March 4th and peas already that tall!As in Europe, the graveyard are located at the best spots!
We visited a potter’s workshop, nice pottery too, but too early in our trip to consider buying anything. Notice the connected kilns in a slope – seems to be characteristic !?!They have a tendency to over do it.. but this tree maybe really needed the extra support !!!Typical countryside landscape, hills/ mountains are usually with very steep slopes, but they have also hyper-flat valleys… if it was in France I’d be guessing a glacier formation but here ?? Also characteristic of Japan countryside are the super-well canalized rivers/streams ! Like water is no joke in those parts!!
We had heard of a sea salt production…
… but first met a couple collecting their own seaweed…… and there we are, we would have not guessed or dared!! Thanks to the call we also got a guided tour… an amazing amount of sea water is pumped and boiled!Evaporation makes nice big flaques…
Calling on his own initiative to lake sure we could visit the salt « factory »Packaging…But some part is also produced by slow « natural » evaporation…
Was it to thank us for providing an excuse to have a break in the tedious work of salt packing… not sure, but we did get a pack of their salt as a gift – amazing!
But also found a small factory processing wakame a seaweed used for instand in traditional miso soup or simply as salad.
(Not part of that factory, but same area…)A young girl, employed there, wanted soo much to speak english with us… but could hardly say a word…
Before processing…After…
As it was the girls’ day shops were selling dolls… for boys day it is wind vail in the form of carpes.
We were thinking of bying one for each of you as souvenirs, but there was unfortunately no more space in our haversacks… 🙂 ! Too bad hey??
