Vietnam Colors of life7

1. Colors of life

2. Salt harvesters working on a salt farm in Vietnam. Water is pumped in from the ocean and once evaporated, these workers collect up the remaining salt

3. Vietnam is a desirable destination for those who are photograph catching lovers as the country is adorned with numerous spectacular landscapes. However, most of them have never heard about amazing salt fields that will be a perfect option for photo tours in Vietnam. In all the salt fields in Vietnam you have abundant chance to capture the amazing photos of the salt fields or a woman rakes salt and workers carry salt at down

4. The best time to visit to the salt fields in Vietnam are from December to May with dry season and hot weather.

5. In summer heat, salt makers work very hard in the field to produce their famous salt brand

6. Salt fields near the Mekong Delta

10. Hon Khoi Salt Fields is one of the largest salt-making areas in Central Vietnam, which is nearly 400 hectares and production can reach nearly 740,000 tons of salt each year. Here mounds of natural salt are manually harvested from shallow fields along Doc Let Beach. 

11. The salt field named Hon Khoi is just 40Km from Nha Trang city

13. Residents of Hon Khoi and Ninh Hoa, mainly women create giant salt "piles” which stand out amidst the sea

14. Khanh Hoa is endowed with a long coastline, serving as a favorable condition for the salt-making profession to develop

15. Hon Khoi Salt Fields

16. Hon Khoi Salt Fields

17. Hon Khoi

19. Hon Khoi Salt Fields

21. The salt-making season in Phuong Cuu lasts from December to May. Farmers start to make salt from the early morning. The sunnier it is, the faster the salt crystallizes. It’s the blazing sun in Ninh Thuan that creates pure white salt grains.

30. Sa Huynh salt field, located in Central Vietnam covers an area of more than 100 hectares. Farmers start making salts from dawn. Based on the high tide, farmers pump water from canals and ditches into the field.

31. When the sun rises, the seawater crystallizes into salt. Farmers need to “dry” the seawater for 3 days so that salt can be white, big, and iridescent

46. Sunrise in Dong Hai salt field

47. Dawn across a salt field in the coastal town of Phan Ri Cua in Tuy Phong District of the south-central province of Binh Thuan

48. Bac Lieu salt was granted the geographical indication protection by the National Intellectual Property Office in 2013

49. Bac Lieu Seen from above, the rectangular fields neatly line up

50. Bac Lieu in the famous Mekong River Delta is one of Vietnam’s top provinces that have biggest salt-producing areas