The Northwest in Vietnam is always celebrated as a mysterious lady who is extremely fascinated. It’s hard to know how many traveler are captivated! That lady turns up with the beauty particular in each season: slumberous charms in Autumn with immense terraced rice fields in harvest time covered by stretching sunshine; splendid beauty in Spring with flourishing peach and slum; sweat spectacle in summer with terraced field full of powerful streamlines and mysterious ambiance with clouds wriggling in cold air.
In all the above, the harvest season is still the most favourite time that the lady flaunts her charming beauty and attracts backpacking travelers. Furthermore, the harvest time here is also the unique attractive period thanks to nice weather, yellow landscape of ripen rice – symbol of a comfortable life and the pleasant atmosphere of Autumn among the northwest mountainous area. All of them easily can enchant any natural lover.
Terraced fields in Sapa
With pleasure, Hello Vietnam Travel offers you the following schedule of beautiful harvest seasons in some destinations celebrated as the paradise of terraced rice paddies, as well as famous landmarks. This schedule is not absolute but fairly exact for many years, and able to help you plan proper journeys to visit fantastic paddies in harvest time.
SCHEDULE OF RIPEN RICE IN HARVEST TIME:
- Sapa - Muong Hum - Y Ty: Late August – around September 20th.
- Mu Cang Chai: September 20th – October 10th.
- Hoang Su Phi, Xin Man, Bac Ha: October 1st – October 25th.
LANDMARKS OF MAGNIFICENT TERRACED RICE FIELDS IN SOME AREAS:
- Sapa: Muong Hoa Valley, Ta Giang Phinh, ...
- Muong Hum, Sang Ma Sao, Den Sang, Den Thang (On the way from Sapa to Y Ty)
- Y Te: A Lu, Khu Chu Lin, Thien Sinh Valley, Lao Chai 1, Lao Chai 2
- Mu Cang Chai: Tu Le (Lim Thai, Lim Mong), Kim Junction, La Pan Tan, De Xu Phinh, Che Cu Nha, Lao Thua Chai, …
- Hoang Su Phi: Ban Luoc, Thong Nguyen, Ban Phung, ...
- Xin Man: Terraced rice fields here are mostly along the main road, and road to the border gate of number 5
Mu Cang Chai beautiful moment in the year when rice started ripening
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