desert

Rann of Kutch, Gujarat·industry · desert

Seen here is a salt workers' house with the family lunch time. The lady is making chapatis (Indian bread) on an earthen oven and the man is chopping salad for lunch, in the Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat.

Rann of Kutch, Gujarat·desert

Wild Asses (Equus hemionus khur) in Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India. The Indian wild ass had a range that once extended from western India, through Sindh and Baluchistan, Afghanistan, and south-eastern Iran.

Rann of Kutch, Gujarat·desert

Wild Asses (Equus hemionus khur) in Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India. The Indian wild ass had a range that once extended from western India, through Sindh and Baluchistan, Afghanistan, and south-eastern Iran.

livestock · desert

A roaming herd of Wild Asses plod through the salt pans covered with Prosopis juliflora trees and slight grasslands. Meanwhile, a big male Blue bull or nilgai stares at the Wild Asses.

Gujarat·desert

Wild Asses (Equus hemionus khur) in Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India. The Indian wild ass had a range that once extended from western India, through Sindh and Baluchistan, Afghanistan, and south-eastern Iran.

desert

Asses in the open desert... One of the asses kicks a side kick! Almost as if on queue, all the asses look in the same direction and exactly the same way, with uniform light falling on all of them! Wild Asses (Equus hemionus khur) in Little…

Gujarat·desert

A baby Ass suckling milk in Kutch, with nice evening light filtering in through the Keekar (Prosopis juliflora) trees! Another young Wild Ass seems to be limping and hobbles along... A mother suckles her young.

Rann of Kutch, Gujarat·industry · desert

Seen here is a salt workers' house with a family of three - husband, wife and mother in law. They are having evening tea in the Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat.

Rann of Kutch, Gujarat·industry · desert

Seen here is a salt worker couple having traditional style lunch with chapati (Indian bread) and subzi (cooked vegetable) in this hot sun in the Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat.

Rann of Kutch, Gujarat·industry · highway

Shown here in the video is a truck loaded with salt in a salt pan in the Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat.

Gujarat·industry · highway

Shown here is a backhoe loader mountee on a tractor and loading salt onto a truck to be transported across and out of the Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India.

Gujarat·industry · desert

Shown here in the video is a backhoe loader, loading salt in the truck to be transported in the Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat.

Rann of Kutch, Gujarat·industry · highway

Shown here in the video is a backhoe loader, loading salt in the truck to be transported in the Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat.

Rann of Kutch, Gujarat·industry · desert

Salt crystallization in progress by collecting crystallized salt embedded on the top layer of a sea water reservoir in the Little Rann of Kutch. This is carried out before the salt crystals reach the bottom layer of the reservoir.

Rann of Kutch, Gujarat·industry · desert

Salt crystallization in progress by collecting crystallized salt embedded on the top layer of a sea water reservoir in the Little Rann of Kutch. This is carried out before the salt crystals reach the bottom layer of the reservoir.

Rann of Kutch, Gujarat·industry · desert

Salt crystallization in progress by collecting crystallized salt embedded on the top layer of a sea water reservoir in the Little Rann of Kutch. This is carried out before the salt crystals reach the bottom layer of the reservoir.

Rann of Kutch, Gujarat·industry · desert

Salt crystallization in progress by collecting crystallized salt embedded on the top layer of a sea water reservoir in the Little Rann of Kutch. This is carried out before the salt crystals reach the bottom layer of the reservoir.

Rann of Kutch, Gujarat·industry · desert

Salt crystallization in progress by collecting crystallized salt embedded on the top layer of a sea water reservoir in the Little Rann of Kutch. This is carried out before the salt crystals reach the bottom layer of the reservoir.

Rann of Kutch, Gujarat·industry · desert

Salt crystallization in progress by collecting crystallized salt embedded on the top layer of a sea water reservoir in the Little Rann of Kutch. This is carried out before the salt crystals reach the bottom layer of the reservoir.

industry · desert

Mountains of salt in the pans in the Little Raann of Kutch, Gujarat The salt workers settle down in the desert for 8 months between October to May and their homes adjacent to the salt pans that they work on.

industry · desert

In this video you can see the salt workers of the Little Rann of Kutch collecting salt from the salt pans.

desert

The depth of ground water is very high in this region, as the sea is not far away, despite it being a saline desert.

Rann of Kutch, Gujarat·desert

Wild Asses (Equus hemionus khur) in Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India. The Indian wild ass had a range that once extended from western India, through Sindh and Baluchistan, Afghanistan, and south-eastern Iran.