Mu Cang Chai terraced fields are hailed as "the pinnacle of crystallized beauty from Vietnamese culture and labor". Unlike the magnificent beauty of the pouring water season, the time is here to full of beauty is between the months of September to October. It is also the season of ripe rice, the season of yellow color spread everywhere.
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Mu Cang Chai is a highland district of Yen Bai Province, at the foot of the Hoang Lien Son mountain range. From Hanoi to Mu Cang Chai must go about 280km and Khau Pha Pass - one of the most dangerous and beautiful mountain pass.
Mu Cang Chai is famous for its terraced fields, which are spread over the mountains so beautifully that it has been ranked as a national treasure with Hoang Su Phi and Sapa.The history of terraced fields is closely related to the history and culture of the ethnic minorities groups.
The most famous in Mu Cang Chai is terraced fields in three communes La Pan Tan, Che Cu Nha and Ze Xu Phinh. Until now, local people still preserve and preserve customs, rituals as well as belief in the cultivation and cultivation of terraced fields.
La Pan Tan and Ze Xu Phin are located 15 km away from Mu Cang Chai town and 20 km away. Che Cu Nha commune is about 7km from the district center, the road to this commune is quite steep and difficult to go.
In fact, Mu Cang Chai has two rice crops in the year: spring (April-May) and main crop (September-October). In the spring season, people focus on growing rice in low fields because on the high hill not enough water. Only the rice crop in September-October is the main crop, the yield is not inferior to the delta fields.
At this point, stretching across Mu Cang Chai is the bright yellow of rice fields on the ripeness and shade of brown rice fields have been harvested.
On the slopes of successive hillside, the rice is bent, weighing heavily, covered with a honey golden, looming between the fields are small wooden huts, forming a beautiful landscape painting.
Less than a month later, on the mountains, the hills of the Northwest, will go up the yellow of the terraces fields. How many tourists have been stupid in front of the field and so closely aligned as the piano keys. Therefore, Mu Cang Chai golden season attracts tourists. When the hills turn from green to yellow is at the network forums, Facebook pages are flooded with plans to "explore the golden season."
Let's go! The invitations sweet like honey. As the wheel turns, the road from Hanoi to Mu Cang Chai 380 km long is swallowed despite the winding road, winding like a snake curled, one side high mountains, one side is deep pool.
