Hallors and Saline Museum men and citizens for the merits of the brotherhood of the Hallors. In addition, the visitor gets a glimpse into the traditions of this brotherhood, their historic privileges and duties. Salt plants (halophytes) – typical plants growing on salty soils – are to find in the garden of the museum. Starting on August 1, 2010, The Museum of Saline has been maintained and promoted by a non-profit association. The buildings of Saline are now the oldest witnesses of the industrial style architecture in Halle upon Saale. The earliest buildings were erected from 1719 to 1721. The oldest remaining part of
Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley edges. Waimangu is home to a wide range of micro-organisms and plants adapted to the different thermal conditions in the valley, from bacteria surviving temperatures of and algae growing in acidity levels of pH 3.8 to mosses and prostrate kanuka growing in soil temperatures up to . All vegetation in the valley originates from no earlier than the 1890s, when plants started re-populating the area in a natural succession following the complete destruction of any plant life by the 1886 Mount Tarawera eruption. Over the past 120 years, plant life in the Waimangu Valley has re-established itself via dispersion of