Tourists enjoy the experience of making salt.

One of the activities that attracts many tourists to the Vietnam Salt Festival - Bac Lieu in 2025 is experiencing the salt making profession in Dong Hai Salt Village. Not only is it exciting, through the experiential activities, visitors also learn more about the hardships and difficulties of salt workers when making salt grains...

Tourists participate in salt making experience activities in Dong Hai district. Photo: CL

A day as a salt worker

Next to the salt field huts, many delegates and tourists attentively listened to the salt workers share their stories of life and work, and were even more delighted when they themselves went down to the salt yard and experienced the actual work of making salt. Ms. Nguyen My An from Hau Giang said: “For a long time, I thought that pure white salt grains, so tiny, could only be obtained by taking seawater and drying it. Now, witnessing it with my own eyes, I can feel the hardships of the salt making profession. Perhaps the salty taste of sea salt also contains the salty taste of the sweat of the people of the coastal region.”

Not only delegates, tourists from other provinces but also Bac Lieu people, through the festival, many people had the opportunity to experience and learn more about the salt of their hometown. Mr. Tran Van Du (Ninh Quoi A commune, Hong Dan district) shared: "Although it was just an experience, I have somewhat felt the hardships of the salt making profession. I hope that through this festival, the salt making profession of my hometown will receive attention, investment and sustainable development so that the lives of salt farmers will become more and more stable and prosperous."

Nowadays, although many stages in the salt production process have been mechanized to improve the quality and yield of salt, Bac Lieu salt farmers still respect the traditional manual production technique, so that the salt produced has the advantages of being odorless, not bitter, not mixed with impurities, with a rich salty taste and a sweet aftertaste.

Tourists experience raking salt in the salt fields of Long Dien Dong commune (Dong Hai district). Photo: HT

Need to connect tours and routes systematically for salt field tourism

During the days of the Vietnam Salt Festival - Bac Lieu in 2025, it can be seen that the salt making experience is really attractive to delegates and tourists. However, to awaken the potential and exploit the strengths of tourism from salt fields after this Festival, localities with large salt production areas in the province such as Hoa Binh and Dong Hai need to have specific plans to attract tourists. To do this, on the one hand, it is necessary to connect with companies, businesses, and associations operating in the tourism sector. At the same time, it is necessary to focus on building synchronous infrastructure, clear zoning plans, and especially having places to stay, eat, drink, and have entertainment... At the same time, it is necessary to build typical strengths from salt grains such as herbal salt, beauty salt, local dishes made from salt... to attract more and more tourists to the salt fields, developing tourism combined with experiences.

According to tourist Tran My Ha (Ho Chi Minh City): “I think the salt field area in Dong Hai district can completely become an attractive destination for sightseeing and experiential tourism. If the local government invests more in infrastructure, specific zoning planning from: experience, relaxation from products processed from salt grains, accommodation facilities, combined with homestays... then it will be very attractive to tourists”.

Over the past 100 years, the salt making profession has been closely associated with the life of production workers, bringing a stable source of income to the people and is a folk knowledge that has been accumulated and passed down through many generations. In 2019, the product "Bac Lieu salt" was once again certified by the Department of Intellectual Property for geographical indication protection, thereby affirming the Bac Lieu salt brand in the domestic and international markets. In 2020, the salt making profession in Bac Lieu was recognized as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage. It is believed that in the near future, the salt fields in Bac Lieu will become increasingly known and become an attractive tourist destination for tourists.

Chi Linh

Source: https://www.baobaclieu.vn/festival-nghe-muoi-viet-nam-bac-lieu-2025/du-khach-thich-thu-trai-nghiem-lam-muoi-99675.html