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An attractive destination on the journey to discover the ripe rice season in Mu Cang Chai

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To get to Mu Cang Chai, about 300km from Hanoi, is a spectacular journey over the pass. On the road flanked by forests and beautiful rice terraces in the golden season, you will pass through many of the following wonderful places.

Tram Tau Hot Spring: Hot water from natural underground vessels is very good for health, especially for people with bone and joint pain. This place is also a homestay, so visitors who want to stay overnight need to make a reservation in advance. Not far from the hot mineral bathing area, there is a free spring bathing point for local people such as in Coi village, Hoc village...


Hot water from natural underground vessels is very good for health, especially for people with bone and joint pain. This place is also a homestay, so visitors who want to stay overnight need to make a reservation in advance. Not far from the hot mineral bathing area, there is a free spring bathing point for local people such as in Coi village, Hoc village...


Photo: Nguyen Thu Phuong


Khau Pha Pass is the place where the annual paragliding activity takes place with the name Flying on the Golden Season Festival. From here, pilots and tourists can both skydive to experience the thrill and enjoy the panoramic view of the Lam Mong valley during the ripe rice season. If you love tourists, you should book a tour in advance to have a skydiving spot.


Lam Mong Valley, Lam Thai is the place where Thai villages are located in the valley right under Khau Pha Pass - one of the four great peaks of Vietnam.


Passing through the poetic suspension bridge is to small thread-like paths that slope up the mountain. Coming to Lam Mong in September and October, tourists will be able to walk in the middle of the golden season with rice fields full of ripe grains on both sides of the road.


Visitors can drive among the golden rice fields, see the peaceful village in the harvest season, meet children and the elderly or have fun by the cool streams.


Photo: Nguyen Tan Tuan


Rice terraces covering more than 2,200 hectares of land in Mu Cang Chai. In which, 500 hectares are recognized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as a national heritage of the three villages of La Pan Tan, Che Cu Nha and De Xu Phan.


Tu Le Commune, Van Chan district, Yen Bai province, 3 km from Khau Pha Pass, famous for its characteristic thawed glutinous rice varieties. When the rice began to ripen yellow on the terraced fields, the Thai people in Tu Le were busy preparing new batches of nuggets to sell everywhere. Each kilogram of nuggets costs 120,000 VND.


You can stay in Tu Le for one night or run straight from Tu Le to Mu Cang Chai town. Community motels, homestays and homestays in Mu Cang Chai are rented for 100,000 - 400,000 VND per person per night. If you are in Mu Cang Chai at night, you can go to the market to enjoy the food of the Thai ethnic people and there are more eateries to choose from.


Photo: Nguyen Duc Tue


Raspberry Hill is a symbolic image of the golden season of Mu Cang Chai for many years. The hill is located in La Pan Tan more than 8 km from the town center, the road is difficult, so stop and park the car and then rent a motorbike taxi from the locals to take it to the place. In addition, near the hill, there is a buckwheat flower garden and an ethnic dress rental service for tourists to take pictures. At the big Raspberry Hill, if you go to the shack to take pictures, it costs an additional 5,000 VND per person. Going into the rice field adds 10,000 VND per person.


Horseshoe Hill in Sang Nhu, more than 2 km from Mu Cang Chai town, there are picturesque semicircular terraced fields. Every ripe rice season, this place attracts a lot of photographers to hunt for pictures. Tickets to each of the above points are 20,000 VND per adult, 10,000 VND per child. The price of motorbike taxis ranges from 60,000 to 100,000 VND per person two-way.


Image: Pham Lan Huong


Bamboo forest in Na Hung Tua village: The 60-year-old bamboo forest is located 20 km from the center of Mu Cang Chai town. This is also a place to provide bamboo shoot specialties for the region. The road here on a rainy day is very muddy and steep. Visitors often have to walk or hire locals to carry motorbikes to the attractions because the dirt roads are narrow, steep and slippery and cannot be taken by car.


 Photo: Doan Manh


According to VnE

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