The council ordered 500 tonnes of white salt to mix with rock salt.

Then, in 2002, thanks to drought, it suddenly resurfaced, with much of its blackness now coated in pure white salt.

With this escarpment at your back, you face east straight across the depression, 300ft below sea level: blinding white salt.

With black clouds rolling in over the volcanic peaks, the carpet of white salt crystals sparkles as the sun sets into a flaming sky.

These white salt cellars are made from reindeer antler in the shape of a ptarmigan.