Tidal salt pans about 20k from the sea!

This is part of a long area of salt pans which receive the very high tidal water from the Bay of Kutch via 20k long concreted ditches.

So after 550ks from Udaipur we are staying in a Gujarati roadside transport lodge where all the staff are from Nepal. It has been a long day with temperatures so high we needed to use AC as we were driving into the sun most of the time. To begin with the Araveli hills with their scrub and acacia bushes were predominant but there were patches of really fertile irrigated farms mostly in the valleys. Castor oil crops were everywhere along the route, cotton and chickpeas too, some wheat and maize, sugar cane and then there were thousands of electricity windmills and pylons which stood on concrete feet in the salt pans to avoid corrosion. Salt has been harvested in Rajasthan and Gujarat for hundreds of years and used to be transported through the deserts to the Afghanistan and the middle east on camels. We saw flamingoes and painted storks, ibis and black ibis, blue bull and peacocks but little else the whole journey. No internet so this will be back blipped.