Mu Cang Chai Tour - Discover the Best Rice Terrace in Vietnam

Mu Cang Chai Tour - Discover the Best Rice Terrace in Vietnam

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The popular questions when travelling Mu Cang Chai by motorbike

Mu Cang Chai, Yen Bai, with 300 kilometres in Northwest far from Hanoi,  is favourite destination for Motorbike travelers who love adventures, natural beauty and love enjoying highland atmosphere.

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When is the best time to travel in Mu Cang Chai?

The best time to visit Mu Cang Chai is in harvest season, from September to October and poured water season in May or June. These are the two most appropriate time for you to admire the magnificent scenery of northwestern mountains with rice terraces ladder brilliant yellow colour; or water flashed like a mirror surface.

How is the weather in Mu Cang Chai

Unlike the plain areas, the weather in the mountains is very unpredictable and constantly changing throughout the day. Often there may be rain at night, early morning fog and sunny daytime sky. You should prepare for wind and rain coat jacket coming here, to prevent the sudden rain forest.

How to get there?

You can go to Mu Cang Chai by car or motorcycle. If moving from Hanoi, normally it will take about 8-9 hours on a motorcycle. You can also catch buses under Hanoi – Than Uyen to go through the Mu Cang Chai. However, places are scattered in various communes and villages, motorcyclists will help you be more active.

Zonitrip offer the options Motorbike Mu Cang Chai 3Day2Night to save your time and health, there is a new expressway that connects Hanoi to Yen Bai within 2 hours, then continue take a motorbike from Yen Bai – Mu Cang Chai.  In addition, Zonitrip arrange the private car for you from Hanoi – Mu Cang Chai.

With many alpine terrain and steep gorge as Khau Pha Pass aces, you should restrict speed when moving. Guests should not go at night because of poor visibility and security issues, corrupted Khau Pha Pass car on.

What things need to bring

You should prepare the necessary utensils such as warm clothing, wind jacket, toiletries, batteries and charger, camera and phone, ID. If you travel by motorcycle, do not forget to equip themselves substandard helmets, protective gear limbs, gloves, reflective stickers.

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When motorcyclists should wear a raincoat raining entirety, hair dryer and shoe cover. Also, stay away from villages, you should also bring candy to donate ethnic children.

Where to stay

Tourism in Mu Cang Chai undeveloped so the accommodation establishments primarily as hostel and homestay. You can stay in the town of Tu Le, Nghia Lo or Mu Cang Chai. With the peak season, prices may stay in the range of 300000-400000 dong a room. If selected homestay, price for a contract is 60000-100000.

Zonitrip often arrange to stay at homestay of Thai people in Mu Cang Chai village and Nghia Lo illage. It was really unique and unforgettable experience. I truly enjoyed having local foods,local alcoholic drinks and taking stunning photos. The ethnic families we stayed with were beyond welcoming, and they know where to go to get a taste of authentic

Homestay Mu Cang Chai

Which point must to see

When to Yen Bai, you can combine sightseeing Mu Cang Chai with other districts. Through Tu Le area, you will visit the Lim Mong, Lim Thai, Cao Pha field, Khau Pha Pass.

Rice field in Lim Thai village, Mu Cang Chai

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Gold terraced rice fields Mu Cang Chai, Vietnam

If time permits, travelers can continue on through Than Uyen, O Quy Ho Pass and to Sapa, Lao Cai.

What to eat in Mu Cang Chai

When to stop in Yen Bai and Mu Cang Chai, you can enjoy the typical dishes of the ethnic Hmong, Thai, such as five-color sticky, black earth cake, grilled fish pa pinh top, cake, grilled chicken with honey or buffalo meat infected leaf kitchen upstairs. These are all traditional dishes of local ethnic minorities.

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After the ride with the experienced team of Zonitrip, you will have the lifetime experience. Below links are featured trips to Mu Cang Chai, the best place for motorbike tours north west Vietnam.

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Motorbike Mu cang Chai- Marks the end of the unplanned road trip

” Sapa – Than Uyen – Mu Cang Chai – Nghia Lo – Yen Bai
— 3 days, about 302km.
Marks the end of the unplanned road trip.—–








Motorbike tour #Sapa- #MuCangChai- Riding through mountainous road, trusting my own judgement maneuvering the sharp bends both uphill & downhill. Apparent signs of possible landslides along the way & passing by a few + fallen trees covering half of the road, praying hard that I wouldn’t have to see one falling before my very eyes.

Riding through villages would mean terrible road condition. Of bumpy, rocky road (literally rocks) and countless of potholes. So challenging that if that was game, I would’ve unlocked a few levels of achievements cause I got through it hahaha! Few skids here and there but I didnt fall, and thats good enough.

Unpredictable weather. Either it was pouring so heavily that I just wanna shut my eyes cause too much rain got into my eyes and I can barely see what’s ahead, or the weather was just nice with wind and all (and that makes me appreciate the dry weather more cause it could rain any moment!)

No words to describe the ever-changing horizon throughout the journey. There’s so much that I can capture / describe, but I guess it’s best to see with your own eyes.

Was tweeting few days before the trip about how I’d want to get a bike license so that I can do road trips when Im traveling. Who would’ve thought that the day would actually come anytime soon? Well they say the best trips / adventures are the ones not planned. And it sure is! Even if it means riding a scooter (I think since its auto) throughout hahaha!

What an adventure!! Though it was one hell of a ride / experience, it’s another dream come true, definitely! ”
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TRAVEL GUIDE TO MU CANG CHAI

Zonitrip – Mu Cang Chai is a mountainous district of Yen Bai province, is about 280km from Hanoi,  are known with scenic rice terraces. Each harvest season, Mu Cang Chai welcomes thousands of visitors from around the country & is the new attractive destination for international travelers . If you visit to North Vietnam, don’t miss this land, Zonitrip advise you to backpack up and hit the road right then, you will not be regret.

Tips when travel Mu Cang Chai Tour, Yen Bai

Mu Cang Chai has 2 pretty nice seasons which you can arrange to come; the other seasons to Mu Cang Chai have nothing special.

Around mid-September to mid-October is the season of grain, all of rice terraces throughout Mu Cang Chai will be covered by bright yellow, the weather is nice and convenient to visit.

Around May-June is the pouring season, when summer rains began pouring down the mountain, the water is led from the mountains into terraces. Water flooded into the fields to make arid become softer and swells to grow rice. This is also the time people go to the field to crops and prepare for a new season. Therefore in the terraced in Northern Vietnam Mountains can only plant rice one time per year. This terraced water flashed in the sunset creates a beauty that many tourists to be surprised.

How to get there

There are 3 ways you can choose:

• From Hanoi, you can go straight to Mu Cang Chai by motorcycle or car.
• Catch the bus Hanoi – Lai Chau which goes through Mu Cang Chai, then rent the motorbike to visit around the town area and Mu Cang Chai some neighboring villages to take pictures and admire the rice, the motorcycle rental you can contact the hotel always with you at the hostel so convenient.
• Because there isn’t many bus go straight Mu Cang Chai, so you can catch the bus to Yen Bai city, then rent the motorbike from there to Mu Cang Chai. You can contact via Ms. Nghia +84 0168 992 7861

 Highlight

Khau Pha Pass

As one of the lines winding and steep gorge ranks among the best Vietnam,  Khau Pha Mountain pass is in the highest mountain in Mu Cang Chai area. Khau Pha Pass starting point is cut Highway 32 to Highway 279 consecutive seamlessly with grandchildren pass it forward and pass on the road behind Kim Walls 32. From the city of Yen Bai, vice along Highway 32 about 5 hours, through communal Tu Le, Khau Pha pass Mu Cang Chai district out between a plateaus surrounded by mountains identical messages. The winding stretches of road passes between the old forests are bold and pristine slopes terraced fields of H’Mong, Thai.

Cao Pha valley

This is also the time when many tourists venture to conquer the scenic gorge. The jungle at Khau Pha preserved many rare animals and plants such as oil data, to her and all kinds of birds, other rare animals.

Lim Mong Village

Lim Mong Village in Mu Cang Chai district –is still hidden in the clouds. With difficulty of the road dangerous, Lim Mong is one of the destinations for travelers who love adventure and challenging.

Terraced fields in La Pan Tan

Famous for its beautiful terraced fields of heaven leaning fingerprint, La Pan Tan is not ashamed to be one of three localities of Mu Cang Chai district, Yen Bai province, terraces – art architecture epitomized creation of the Mong ethnic people living on this land by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism rated monuments scenic national level since late 2007.

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VIETNAM RICE TERRACES – Motorbike Sapa – Mu Cang Chai Tour

Discovery the most beautiful terrace in North West Vietnam by Motorbike

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Something about Mu Cang Chai rice terrace, Vietnam - Zonitrip

Mu Cang Chai terraced fields spread out more than 2,300ha at a height of 1,000m above the sea level in Hoang Lien Son Mountain Foot.  Concentrating mostly in 3 communes of La Pan Tan, Che Cu Nha and De Xu Phinh, Mu Cang Chai District, Yen Bai Province.

Mu Cang Chai is a western district of Yen Bai Province, about 350km to the north-west of Ha Noi. The district is bounded to the north by Van Ban District (Lao Cai Province), to the south by Muong La District (Son La Province), to the west by Than Uyen District (Lai Chau Province) and to the east by Van Chan District (Yen Bai Province).

After taking a trip from Ha Noi to Yen Bai City, visitors will have going 40km on National Highway No.37 before turning on the right to catch National Highway No.32 running through Nghia Lo Township to Tu Le. From Tu Le, visitors will have to pass Nam Khat Pass, which is 2,000m above the sea level, continuing to go on the western slope of Hoang Lien Son Mountain range and along Nam Kim Stream before reaching Mu Cang Chai. Another option for visitors is they can take a trip on National Highway No.32 from Ha Noi, via Son Tay and Tu Le to end in Mu Cang Chai.

Due to the steep feature, fertile soil and mountain cliffs often stock water, the local people, mainly Mong ethnic minorities, can grow rice and establish terraced fields, one after another, from the foot to nearly top of mountains. Generations to generations of these people have made terraced fields as today.

TREKKING IN MU CANG CHAI – SAPA

When being seen from afar, the terraced rice fields look like a picture of nature whose colour changes seasonally, exhibiting its most alluring charm when the new crop begins, green rice grows and the field is lush with ripening rice.

As usual in April and May, when local people water their fields at full to prepare for a new crop, the surface of terraced fields shines like a mirror reflecting the contrast of the reddish brown of soil, the deep blue of the sky and the green of surrounding forests. Embankments surrounding these terraces look like threads softly lined by the painter.

Mu Cang Chai rice terraces in water falling season

In June and July, the terraced rice fields with fully-grown paddy rice and forest trees spread the green out to the entire area, from the foot to top of mountains, before disappearing in mist. The green of paddy rice grown on the terraced field makes visitors think of it as a hand-made creation of uniqueness which cannot be found anywhere else.

Rice field in Lim Thai village, Mu Cang Chai

Coming to Mu Cang Chai in September and October, when autumn ends, visitors can feel prosperity all over the area as rice in all terraced fields is ripe, giving the gold colour. During the time, the terraced rice fields look like golden silk scarves flying over in the wind above green mountain slopes, making the mountainous landscape astonishingly beautiful.

Mu Cang Chai – Vietnam highlands rustic charm

Terraced rice fields in Mu Cang Chai coupled with distinctive cultural practices of local ethnic minority groups have created the uniqueness of the locality. This explains why many tourists, both domestic and foreign, are increasingly flocking to Mu Cang Chai to admire these “terraced rice field masterpieces”.
On 18 October 2007, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism recognized 500ha – terraced fields in 3 communes of La Pan Tan, Che Cu Nha and De Xu Phinh (Mu Cang Chai) as a national landscape.

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