Truly Amazing A Mountain Made Of Salt Kitchen

Trips to the mountains might be an alternative that you can do at the weekend. In addition to having sufficient air is cool, the mountain also offers peace of mind to anyone who was there.

There are so many mountains that can be used as a tourist destination, such as sandy Bromo mountain, the mountain offers a warm water bath in some areas in Bandung, even mountain presents an amazing sight.

But is it ever occurred to you, for a trip to the mountains made of salt? Yes, salt you normally use to eat. It may sound impossible, but it really exists.

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Monte Kali mountain is located in a small town in the eastern part Heringer Hesse, Germany. Interestingly, this mountain is made piles of sodium chloride or common table salt, which is a byproduct of potash mining.

Salt mountain.

For more than a hundred years, potash mining has become a major industry in this region. Starting with the opening of potassium mine in Wintershall, in 1903, and until now the largest potash mine in the world with an area of ​​operations the size of Greater Munich.

Potash mining produces a mixture of potassium and sodium chloride, potassium content between 20 percent and 35 percent. Where every one ton of potash produced, there are hundreds sodium chloride produced. Because it is not used, then discarded in a few places around the region.

This time the mountain Monte began to grow in 1973. A stack of table salt is now more than 200 meters above the surrounding ground level which covers an area of ​​93 hectares or 188 million tons of salt.

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The locals call this mountain as "Kalimanjaro" - a play on words between Kali (abbreviation for Kalisalz, German for "potash") and the famous volcanic peak of Mount Kilimanjaro.

But unique, salt mountain is visited by more than 10,000 each year. But no worries, because the surrounding salt seeping into the ground and cause the water becomes salty. Even the Werra river has become inhospitable for freshwater organisms.