Beneath the surface
Kihiray Pictures
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Every person or every family in Katwe
They have a barn where they get a living
Every season
On Dead Sea
Some people go there to get that kind of mud and apply it on their skin
It's the way how it beautifies the skin
The skin gets more smooth
So women get there to apply that mud on their skin
They smell that kind of mud on the skin
Then it removes pimples
It makes the skin very smooth
And add the bag on it and come up with a cosmetic
This is where the women dry it
You see that woman is trying to dry it on sunshine
And dry it into dust
They dry that mud
They turn it into dust
They pack it in bags
And export it in Gwana Nguni for public
This is a salt lake
It's a matter of opening up a plot here
But a small one
After opening it, then you push in salt water
Quickly, like three days, you have a salt
And those kinds of pans, they are called ding in the native language
Ding
Where you have a salt quickly within three days
But in other big pans, it takes seven days to have a salt
So after constructing it
Then you open up a trench
And flake it
Then over a canal, then you divert salt water from the main lake
Then you push it inside the small pan
So as I told you that here we depend on sunshine
When you hear the mention of the word rain
People will hate you to death
Yeah, they don't want people to make rain
Salt tunga season is
The first one is from early January, mid-March
Okay, the dry season
Yes
And the second season begins from early July to mid-August
Okay
Those are two seasons in a year of harvesting salt
From the salt pans
Then the other activity of rock salt extraction in the main lake
Is done throughout the year
Yeah, over 5,000 people are employed here during the dry season
Okay
And all tribes in Uganda are represented here
Except the Karamajo
What are these ones called?
They are called amber troughs
Okay
Amber troughs
Okay
What are they for?
These amber troughs, they use them to transport rock salt
From the middle of the lake to the rest of the floods
Okay
They are less dust than water
So that's why they use this kind of
Yeah, this kind of
The showers of Lake Edmond
Okay
Because it does well
This kind of tree does well on the showers
That's why they have to put on these rubber sheets
On their feet
To protect the feet from actual injuries
And this kind of salt, they use it in Texas and other cities
Six colours
Some colours
Yes
Five colours
So it keeps on forming in layers, that's why we are
It's a sedimentary rock
Yeah
But chemically formed
So it forms layers
Yeah
So that's why it's the number one
Because it protects the rock
Yeah
And then it forms another year
