The stunning scene of workers harvesting the mineral and drying collections in the sun on countless salt flats was captured by an amateur photographer Haitham Al Farsi in Oman's Qurayyat. /VCG Photo

After water emerged and evaporated in grid patterns on the ground, people can gather hundreds of kilos of salt every day. The essential ingredients of this labor-intensive work are listed as “sea, sun, wind.” /VCG Photo

In order to record this ancient method that has been applied for hundreds of years, photographer Haitham Al Farsi visited Qurayyat in Oman for four days waiting for the process. /VCG Photo