xwejni salt pans

weedave1972

Great to visit to buy a momento of gozo that you can use .the salt pans are still in use producing salt that you can buy from the family who have been producing the salt here for years. .it amazing to see how it's done .

JackieT332

These were first constructed by the Romans, they are very extensive, nice to chat to the local producers, the seller had worked there for 47 years. The nearby beach is lovely too.Plenty of parking

225MickD

Well worth a walk along the front and down onto the pans (making sure you avoid those that are commercially run). The pans have been there for millennia and some people still make a living from them! You might meet the crazy, angry but happy fisherman who shouted "alright mate?" At us at high volume for ten minutes. Nice guy actually but a bit out of control.

DanielLifeguard

I live literally on top of this place. I live in Zebbug and I could just roll down the hill into one of the salt pans. I see this bay and this salt pans a lot and it's never too much. I just love this quiet bay during winter AND summer. During summer it's less quiet, but it still retains its peacefulness since mostly it's the locals who come to swim here.Just and and see! You won't regret it. Take a stroll along the seaside road leading into the fields inland at one end and to another bay at the other.

Marcel55

A walk along the saltpans on the North Coast of Gozo is very worthwhile. The best way to do this walk is by bus 309 (every hour at .37, we started at 09.37) from the busstation in Victoria to the endpoint (Zebbug Stivali). From the busstop walk through the village and then descend via a rural road to the coast. The salt pans are signposted. Walking to Marsalforn we have seen the salt pans along the coast, but also Xwejni bay with the remarkable table mountain. Very photogenic. In Marsalforn we had some time for coffee and pastries. We continued at 12.40 hours by bus 322 from Marsalforn direction Mgarr and hopped of at the Ggantija temples. You can, however, also go back to Victoria by bus 310 (every hour at .35).

tobias_abel

Rock arches and cliffs can be seen everywhere, but this one is very special. The salt pans are something very unique for Gozo and the street along the pans is a nice way to drive or walk. But: Do not walk into the pans.

Aziana_silver_moon

It is interesting to see where and how salt was made. If you are in Gozo and have some spare time, you can visit this sight and learn something about the island's past.

CaraF39

You should definitely make the trip to the salt pans, it is a lovely area and you really don't see something like this everyday. Please visit one of the men selling salt - they work extremely hard, don't get many visitors and would love to tell you how they do their work. It's worth buying some salt from them too, they don't export, so their sales are limited to the local islands and villages and it tastes really nice.

GoncziDezso

No amount of photos that could give back sight. It's magic the simple technologie, how will be the sea salt. This landscape are different that i had ever seen.

Ian_Scott_Moyes

Wow! The textures and forms in the rock are amazing when the light plays on them. You have to see this, it's like something from the moon.There's nothing there though, just scenery.

davidrK6024TV

Really looked forward to visiting the salt pans and they didn’t disappoint. The most interesting section we discovered by accident when we went for a short walk to the old fort on the promontory beyond the eastern-most section of the pans near Horizon. Behind the fort there was very small series of pans - probably the oldest section of the lot? - now disused and some slowly filling up with plant life which was interesting in itself. It was easily possible here and fascinating to see how it all worked with the minimum of human labour. The original blow hole was at the highest section, where the sea water would have come in under the cliff and sprayed up, and still clearly visible were all of the small channels cut into the sides of each pan along which the water would have naturally flowed to all of the surrounding pans, each a little lower than its neighbour. What a wonderful, complex and precisely engineered system designed and cut into living rock - and so easy to understand and see here in its entirety. Great stuff!

KThewanderer

Stunning. Well worth the effort and even with challenging roads.A late evening visit is recommended

Globetrotter045

The salt pans are very close to Marsalforn. A really scenic place, you will have a lot of photo opportunities. But please stay of the alt pans to protect them. There are some natural and man made pans and they are still in use today.

Anya252

You can walk or drive to the salt pans from Marsalforn. To my mind, this place is best experienced at sunset - if you're lucky, you can watch the sun sink into the sea. I usually drive until shortly after the tower, then pull off the road into one of the informal parking bays and head down the path to walk along the side of the salt pans until I find somewhere where I can sit and have my glass of wine whilst watching the sun go down before heading into Marsalforn for something to eat. As others have indicated, the more interesting formations are beyond the tower. Please don't carve into the soft limestone and keep off the salt pans themselves. You can buy salt at any number of souvenir shops on Gozo - or in the supermarket where it is a good deal cheaper. Don't pay more than €1.50 for 200g.

LifeAsABackpacker

I spent plenty of time amongst the salt pans between diving the near by dive sites, The pans seem to go on forever as you either walk between them or follow the near by road with the beautiful coast right next to you. The fact that they have been here for so long yet still serve their purpose today is great to see and makes for a worthwhile look.