Kampot Salt Fields

The Kampot Salt Fields stretch along the coastal flatlands south of Kampot town, where generations of local salt farmers have harvested sea salt through traditional evaporation methods unchanged for centuries. Workers called neak domrei sreh guide seawater through a network of shallow clay-lined pans using hand-operated wooden rakes, allowing the sun and wind to gradually evaporate the water and leave behind glistening white salt crystals. The fields are particularly photogenic in the early morning when low light creates mirror-like reflections across the flooded pans and white salt mounds punctuate the flat horizon. Harvest season runs from November to May during the dry months. The sight of farmers working among the expansive glittering flats against a backdrop of the Elephant Mountains is one of Kampot's most distinctive scenes.