Salt Lake, located on the Taman Peninsula between Cape Horn and the Iron Bugaz estuary, 15 km from the Taman, is the salt lakes in the Krasnodar region.

Salt Lake was formed not so long ago. In the early nineteenth century. It is part of the Kuban estuary, which flowed Zhdiga - the main flow of the Kuban. By the mid-nineteenth century. Estuary was divided into four small estuary - Kiziltashsky, Bugaz, Vityazevsky and Tsokur. After some time on the estuary Bugaz separated Salt Lake, which until 1952 was mined salt - up to 20 ths. Tons per year.

With high watershed lake looks great and deep, but if you get closer, this impression disappears. The total length of the Salt Lake - about 1,500 m, width - about 1000 m and the maximum depth is only 10 cm.

In summer a small lake Taman covered with a crust of snow white coarse-grained sea salt. Then the lake you can freely go on dry ground, but you should wear shoes, so as not to scratch the legs. Under a layer of matted salt lies shallow, half-meter layer of healing mud. Therapeutic mud is black, greasy to the touch, plastic mud with a strong smell of hydrogen sulfide. Yl oxidized in air and quickly becomes gray.

Therapeutic mud is very similar to volcanic, but it is less homogeneous and more liquid. It is successfully used in spas and mud baths Gelendzhik and Anapa. It is an excellent tool for the prevention and treatment of sciatica, polyarthritis and other diseases of the joints.

Salt Lake from the Black Sea separates the beautiful beach. The distance from Salt Lake to the sea is about 100 m. The beach has comfortable cabanas and rescue platforms to comply with the safety of tourists.