Mu
Cang Chai is a rural district of Yen Bai province, in the northwestern region of Vietnam.
From Hanoi, you follow the National Road 32, after 290km you arrive at Mu Cang
Chai. The popular attraction of Mu Cang Chai lies in its terraced rice fields
which are primarily situated in the district’s Che Cu Nha, La Pan Tan and De Zu
Phinh villages. These imposing fields draw a large number of both Vietnamese
and foreign travelers who love to take pictures of and indulge themselves in
the amazing beauty of the national heritage site.
There
are three most beautiful time to
take the great photo of breathtaking terrace rice field in Mu Cang Chai:
at the beginning of the crop, in the middle of the crop with amazing green
terrace rice field and around the harvest time with beautiful golden terrace
rice field.
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| Lim Mong, lim Thai field |
There
is only one crop per year in Mu Cang Chai and it takes place from June to
October. In June, when the first summer shower coming to the North of Vietnam,
hill tribe people in Mu Cang Chai all come to their field for preparing the new
crop of rice. As all the field in Mu Cang Chai are terrace rice field so they
all need to supply
water from the top terrace of the field, and water from there
just keep coming from top to the bottom of the rice field, and local people
call this “falling water reason”. In this season, you will see allots of
activities of people working on the field, from plough to harrow on the field
with water buffalo, replanting rice. Normally they work in group with very
beautiful and colorful clothes of hill tribe woman, and it can be very
interesting for very good photo shooting on the field in this period.
The
middle of the crop will be from June to middle of
September. During this time, the whole tremendous terrace rice field in Mu Cang
Chai will be covered by lovely and peaceful carpet of rice. The color of green
on the field even can cool you down in the hot summer sun. You will not see
much local people activities on the field in this season, but the greenness of
the rice field can be very good compensation.
In the harvest time of
the rice crop, travelers take the visit to Mu Cang Chai from late September to
early October to see and take photographs of waves of terraced rice fields, as
this is when the fields turn brilliant yellow and shine in their fullest
beauty. This is also the time when the fields become full of life as Mong
ethnic minority farmers in their traditional attire harvest the ripe rice
grains, and shoulder bags of the fruit home through mountains and hills as well
as over swinging suspension bridges. It is normal to see ethnic minority
mothers use cloth as a cradle to carry their infants on their back when they
are harvesting paddy in the fields in the northwest of Vietnam. Children of the
farmers run here and there in the fields, chatting with their parents and
giggling in tune with the joy of their parents during the harvest season.
It is
in late harvest season that visitors can distinguish the atmosphere of terraced
fields in the rice harvest season and off the season. The real charm of yellow
fields and the fields without paddy, and above all the type of soil and the
attempts of the farmers to produce paddy, are most obvious at this time. Great
time to collect beautiful pictures!
Believe
me! My experience shows that it is in Mu Cang Chai that you can see more
beautiful terraced
rice fields than Hoang Su Phi in the mountainous province
of Ha Giang and other sites that have become famous for terraced rice fields
and captured the great interest of travelers near and far.
There
in Mu Cang Chai, terraced rice fields rise and fall around hillsides and
mountainsides as well as streams and rivers, making them look like giant yellow
staircases for people to step from earth to heaven. Terraced rice fields have
been not only a source of food and income for the Mong people; they are an
intrinsic part of their culture and Mu Cang Chai, which is itself a quiet town
on the bank of the Nam River.
Fashioned over many centuries, the yellow terraced fields are now a symbol of the mountainous district and make it one of the top destinations for those who seek to look into the life of ethnic minority groups in the countryside and the natural surroundings.
Article
by Yang
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