A layer of clouds, the setting sun slicing upward.
Taiwan’s oldest extant tile-paved salt flats—paved squares of shallow water evaporating to leave salt behind.
Three hundred years ago, this area was a center of wealth and splendor. To get the wealth out of the water, laborers had to wash, dry, collect, and transport the salt—by the sweat of their brow. Any way you look at it, the wealth came from salty water.