A rice harvest in Huế

It was a rice harvest in June 2010. Hard-work and happiness blended. The farming families all gathered on the paddy fields, making a really fun and chaotic working scene.

Women harvesting the crop
Shouldering the sheaves of rice on đòn gánh
Sailing the harvested rice down the canals framed with paddy fields
Covered with rice straw, this truck looks like a rock star.
Threshing rice with the machine
A baby buffalo stopping grazing grass to pose for me.
Ducks swimming in the canals or wading in the paddy fields looking for food.
A paddy field was harvested.