{"id":16577,"date":"2019-09-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/09\/23\/india-s-surreal-salt-desert\/"},"modified":"2019-09-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T12:00:00","slug":"india-s-surreal-salt-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/09\/23\/india-s-surreal-salt-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Surreal Salt Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/travel\/gallery\/20190912-indias-surreal-salt-desert\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, September 19, 2019 (BBC Travel): Located roughly 62 miles from the Arabian Sea in the western state of Gujarat, a vast expanse of snow-white salt cakes a barren desert, creating a surreal series of saline mud flats that stretch north to India&#8217;s border with Pakistan. Known as the Rann of Kutch, this tortoise-shaped landmass is divided in 2 parts: the Great Rann, which covers 7 sq miles, and the Little Rann, which comprises more than 2 sq miles. Together, these blindingly white mudflats and tall grasslands form one of the world&#8217;s largest salt deserts and provide up to 75% of India&#8217;s salt harvest. Yet, for several months each summer, as the monsoon rains flood the Ranns, this land of parched white salt completely disappears. <\/p>\n<p>Spectacular photos and two short videos can be viewed at &#8220;source&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source INDIA, September 19, 2019 (BBC Travel): Located roughly 62 miles from the Arabian Sea in the western state of,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}