Back to the island of Malta! This used to be the only way to get to the city from the harbor.

We have seen white beaches, pink beaches and black beaches. Today we saw red beaches.
Ramla Beach was very crowded. We did nto spend much time there.

There was once a bridge between those two rocks out there. Eventually wind took care of it. Also, you see the two persons on the top? I do not know how they got up there but they did a head long jump straight from up there into the water even as we were watching them!!

There is a subtle difference between the waters in the Caribbean Sea which is more “Aqua” and the ones in Mediterranean Sea which is more “Turquoise”. There is a more pronounced effect of green in the Mediterranean.

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.