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Salt Pans

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Xwejni salt pans, Gozo: golden limestone shore carved with shallow hollows and green brine pools, deep blue sea beyond

Walk or drive west along the promenade, past the tiny sand beaches at Qbajjar Bay and the more scenic Xwieni Bay, until you reach a rocky shore. This wild and extraordinary landscape has been carved into a patchwork of salt pans. There's usually a small stall selling salt from the pans, which are owned by three families and still worked in summer.


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