The main purpose of the day was to visit one of Thailand's famous floating markets but as we travelled to the south west of Bangkok I managed to take a few shots of Thailand's annual sea salt production. According to this CNN report in 2012 .... The largest source of Thailand's salt industry can be viewed along side Thai Road 35, better known as Thon Buri-Pak Tho Highway. Taking the highway southwest of Bangkok from Samut Sakhon to Samut Songkhram, you will see rectangular ponds with windmills and workers hand moving brine pumped in from the Gulf of Thailand. The brine is pumped into the shallow ponds allowing the water to evaporate. The salt is raked up with wooden implements into piles for draining. The piles are raked into small hills and then bagged for transportation. Some of the retail bags are sold directly in front of the drying ponds. Large bags of freshly bagged Thai sea salt can be purchased at the "factory" for 30-60 Tbht ($1-2 USD).... never let it b...