This must remind you of The Redeemer in Rio. Michael, our cab driver, told us the story how this mountain Tal-Merzuq was once feared to be a volcanic one. To set this in context, Mt. Etna is just next door in Sicily. The locals built this statue of The Risen Jesus to keep the volcano at peace.

Years later, seismologists concluded that this mountain does not have a volcanic basis!

The whole thing is made of sandstone. And every year, it is getting smaller and smaller in size due to the erosion caused by constant high winds!

The wind erosion is going to collapse it one of these days

The enclosed beds are filled with the sea water and then dried to harvest the salt. It is then packaged and sold.

Looks like Batik print from Santiniketan.

In Gozo!!!

The halo of the sun was near perfectly placed