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View of salt-making fields along the coast south of Nha Trang: This landscape shows salt fields along the coast south of Nha Trang, Vietnam. Sea water is evaporating in the background fields, while salt is nearly ready for harvest in the front field. This type of salt production is a low-cost technology that is known...; Format: image/photograph

Wide view of salt-making fields along the coast south of Nha Trang: This wide landscape view of salt-making fields along the coast south of Nha Trang also shows mountains in the background. Sea water is evaporating in some front and back fields, while salt is nearly ready for harvest in the middle fields. This type of salt...; Format: image/photograph

Ten salt production workers stand in a muddy salt field south of Nha Trang: Ten salt production workers wearing conical sunhats stand in a muddy salt field south of Nha Trang, Vietnam. These are likely wage laborers who work for the land-owning salt factory. Mountains, blue sky, and clouds are visible in the distant background. This...; Format: image/photograph

A porter with pack: Houses along the route at Nepal Danda belong to Newar traders. The houses are made of bricks and have painted walls, doors, and windows. These houses also function as shops. This trail used to be part of the ancient salt trade. Although the salt trade along...; Format: image/photograph

Marpha, Nepal: A narrow pathway between houses in Marpha, Nepal. Two porters and one tourist stand on the path. Marpha is home to many Thakali, an ethnic group once active in the salt trade from Tibet and across the mountains in western Nepal. Since the decline of the historical...; Format: image/photograph

Dhaulagiri mountain rising above the trail: Mountain landscape in Nepal. In the horizon are several peaks, the left-most of is Dhaulagiri, the seventh highest mountain in the world. The mountainsides are rather barren. A trail — both for trekkers and for horses — snakes between the mountains....; Format: image/photograph

Large mound of sea salt ready for collection at coastal factory south of Nha Trang: A large mound of white sea salt is ready for collection at a coastal factory south of Nha Trang. A salt worker walks along a dry field in the background. This type of salt production is a low-cost technology that is known and used in shallow coastal regions...; Format: image/photograph

Tukche, Nepal: A cobblestone street in Tukche, Nepal -- a Thakali village in the upper Kali Gandaki valley, north of Pokhara, with Annapurna Himal on one side and Dhaulagiri Himal on the other. Tukche is the cultural center of the region. The Tukche dialect is spoken in...; Format: image/photograph

Tunnel into Kagbeni village, Nepal: A tunnel gate to the village of Kaagbeni. When the salt trade route was in operation, Kaagbeni was fortified with walls and tunnels like this one. Salt is no longer transported along the route, and the village is now a popular tourist and pilgrimage destination....; Format: image/photograph

Burros in Nepal: Burros carrying goods down pathways once used as routes for the salt trade that crossed the mountains into Tibet. Today, the people who live in these mountains use salt imported from India. Although salt is no longer transported along these routes, they are...; Format: image/photograph

Stone steps: A stones step path winds around the side of a mountain in Nepal. This trail is part of the historical salt trade route that crosses the mountains into Tibet. Although salt is no longer transported along these routes, they are still used to carry herbs and...; Format: image/photograph

Landscape seen from Kagbeni toward Tibetan plateau: A view of the landscape surrounding Kali Gandaki River from the village of Kagbeni, in the Mustang district of Nepal. Kagbeni is near the border of Tibet, an area once part of an ancient salt trade route.; Format: image/photograph

Donkeys resting along a mountain trail: In Nepal, donkeys walk along a mountain trail. Houses with slate roofs stand in the background, with patches of forests in front of them. On the horizon, a range of snow-capped mountains towers over a rugged range of lower mountains. Donkeys are the major...; Format: image/photograph

A village on a hillside, terraced fields and white clouds: Terraced rice fields cascade down the mountains around a group of houses in the village of Lumle in the Kaski district of Nepal. Bushes of soybean crops grow at the edges of the terraces. White clouds — it's monsoon time — hover on the horizon....; Format: image/photograph

Houses in Kagbeni village, Nepal: A cluster of houses in Kagbeni, a village in the Mustang district of Nepal. The houses are rectangular with flat mud-plastered roofs and are built adjoining each other. Worn-down Tibetan prayer flags are flown at different points. Erosion of the flags is believed...; Format: image/photograph

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