Women working in Hon Khoi salt fields

Salt making is a very hard job, which is suitable to men but at Hon Khoi salt fields in the central province of Khanh Hoa, women are the main workers.

Nearly 50km to the north of Nha Trang City, there is a place called Hon Khoi, in Ninh Hai Commune of Ninh Hoa District. Different from other salt fields in Vietnam, most of salt makers here are women. They have to wake up from 3am to pedal for 4km from home to the salt fields. Women carry salt at dawn. They work early to avoid the sun because from 9am, it will be very hard to sustain the heat on the salt fields. At Hon Khoi salt fields, women do the job of carrying salt and men do other tasks. The salt piles are getting taller. The break. Having breakfast in salt fields. They do this job every day, under the heat.