today is the day we are going to the
salt mines and not just regular salt
mines the biggest himalayan salt mines
in the world yes you heard that right
the biggest pink salt mine in the world
is in pakistan the story how these salt
mines were discovered is absolutely
amazing trust me you want to stick
around for this one we continued our
adventure through the great country of
pakistan across cities villages and my
absolute favorite mountains
i love mountains
but all the turns ups and downs makes me
motion sick
but i'm so amazed when i look through
the windows of the car
we just arrived to the salt mines these
are the second biggest salt mines in the
world when you want to visit these salt
mines there's quite a big difference in
price
if you're a four in there of another
four in here now you just try to enter
and uh i obviously don't look i'm come
from here
so we tried to get in with a local
ticket that did not really work
and a price for a local ticket is
two dollars
for a foreign ticket for me
it's twenty dollars but luckily anna
look she's come she can be local from
anywhere
where
people think she's from everywhere
except russia
which is your actual nationality
and now
i need to go back to buy my foreign
ticket but she
she will be able to enter
me
and now he made it even more local
how you look okay i'll film how you look
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there is a very interesting story behind
it how the salt mines were discovered
they were built by british and
discovered by alexander the great's
horses when alexander the great was on
the way to india he was passing this
region
and they saw that horses started licking
stones
so his horses found
discovered stones like this
and they they were feeling very weak and
tired and then they started leaking
these stones and after they leaked they
started feeling better and
then they started recovering and the
army also tried and they realized they
some high minerals
salts
that helped horses to recover
and that's how the place was found
and
you might know the salt as himalayan
salt because indians buy this pink salt
from pakistan and they market and sell
it as himalayan salt this is where it's
found in these mountains in these mines
actually the best quality salt in the
world and it's very good for house also
here in the soft mines they have
special salt rooms people who have
breathing problems respiratory problems
lungs lung problems
they go to those rooms and spend like
from between 10 and 15 minutes just
breathing it because it's very healthy
it's 40 kilometers long
in total
750 000 tons of salt i think
i wonder how many people already licked
it like that
salty being salt mine has massive health
benefits there are three colors of salt
white pink and red
white shade has sodium chloride which is
a normal salt we are used to
pink has magnesium and red is rich with
iron it has additional benefits minerals
such as calcium magnesium potassium it
has a highly increasing demand in india
europe and in the united states luckily
these mountains won't run out of salt
anytime soon as it's estimated only 220
million tons of salt have been excavated
yet there are approximately
6.7 billion tons less
look at this water
this is so cool anna wow look at these
colors
this is absolutely amazing have you ever
been in a salt mine before everything
around
is salt
this salt mine has 17 levels the most
surprising thing is that scientists say
that the pink salt comes from the
ancient sea that crystallized 600
million years ago and everything here is
made out of
salt all these stones are just from salt
it is so
cool
wow can you believe they built a mosque
out of salt bricks right here inside the
mine for people who work here to come
during the prayer time it looks so
beautiful and unique i think this is one
of the most special mosque i've ever
seen in my life
because there is not enough oxygen
makes me feel nauseous and makes me want
to sleep
this is a crystal valley
uh you what the white things you see at
the ceiling
are
it's a process of crystallization of
sodium chloride
which
happens because there is some water and
it kind of melts and that's what happens
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so nice but uh it's warm then
let's get out of here
let's go
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it's probably no surprise that
they sell around this place a lot of
salt lamps and everything made of salt
and it just all looks so beautiful and
nice and i wish i could take some
souvenirs with me
one of the most famous souvenirs to take
with you from this place are things salt
lamps they're made with different forms
and figures and sizes i wish we we could
take some with us but they're so heavy
and we're backpacking so there was no
place
in our luggage for that unfortunately
they're actually very healthy to have in
your room as they shine and you will
keep inhaling it is believed that if you
have a lamp like this in your