I can’t believe they’re
working in this heat man.
Yeah,
750 licensed
miners toil here daily,
battling 40 degree temperatures
to remove the impurities
from the salt
and carve them into blocks
that can be loaded onto the camels.
Do you know how much one of these slabs
will sell for on the market?
17.
So it’s 17 bur,
that´s like $0.50 in pounds.
Fifty pence.
Fifty pence.
Right.
So one
camel can take from 30 to 34 slaps.
Okay.
So you’re talking about 15 quid
a camel
So he’s saying
because the changing ways of the world
you know?
Yeah.
Like
technologies like clipping in
all fields of work.
Yeah.
That, their income has slowly been dwindling.
So how is technology affecting them then?
Sometime ago, there used to be like 2000
cutters here.
Right.
At any given time.
But now, because of the advent of roads
and everything, that
these things are dying out.
Would you
recommend coming here?
I would hate to think that
suddenly you get troops of Westerners
sort of wandering around in a circuit,
going
Oh, they’re working really hard.
And isn’t it hot?
I did when I was wandering around.
But you know,
this is an incredible place to be
and it’s very surreal.
And I like it for that regard.
My instincts are always I hate
seeing animal’s
been involved in stuff like this,
but that’s a very easy thing
for me
from Crawley to come along
and be appalled
at what’s happening to camels.
And of course, that’s how
that’s how they
that’s how they have to do their job.
And also from talking to the guys,
they know not to overload them.
And it’s as humane
as it could possibly be
in the circumstance.
After talking to him
about how the fact that business
is getting tougher
and technology is encroaching and
the market prices isn’t great,
so find yourself wishing that
like somebody
in marketing at Holland, Barrett
suddenly declares that Ethiopian
so is like a superfood
just to push the price of this up.
And so that
wankers in Shorditch
start buying it,
do you know what I mean?
Mike drove me to Lake Karem,
one of two salt
lakes in the northern Dunna kill,
which create the deposits
over a period of thousands of years.
Although there is just an inch of water,
the salt
beneath it runs
almost two kilometers deep.
It’s so beautiful.
I don’t often say that.
I don’t think I’ve ever said that,
and I think I said that
on my wedding day.
It’s just, oh,
so this.
Yeah, that is salty.
I think there’s
something like more ish about it, though.
Yeah.
I feel like
I want to do it again and again? Yeah. I’m
Can I do it again?
Yeah.
Oh,
yeah,
that is.
Yeah.
It’s like a mouthful of salt.
It’s just genuinely incredible.
Yeah.
Like this feeds the whole country,
it´s salt.
Beer by sunset, yeah?
Yeah, man.
Did you bring beer?
Because I didn’t?
Of course.
