Tourists travel thousands of kilometers to Mu Cang Chai during the rice harvest season

“ Mu Cang Chai in the ripe rice season is very beautiful, very peaceful, it was worth my effort to travel thousands of kilometers to get here,” said a tourist from Ho Chi Minh City.

Starting from October, Mu Cang Chai puts on a brilliant yellow coat of ripe rice fields. Mu Cang Chai is a mountainous district of Yen Bai province with a large Mong population.

The beautiful picture of the Northwest mountains and forests attracts many tourists to visit.

If you don't trek, to see the majestic terraced fields, you have to hire a motorbike taxi or drive your own motorbike across steep mountain roads.

Mong people with friendly smiles.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Loan (Ho Chi Minh City) said: “I have planned to go to Mu Cang Chai for a long time, but because of my busy work, I have only been able to go now. Wearing Mong clothes and looking at the golden rice fields, I feel like I belong here.”

A group of tourists take a souvenir photo.

Besides the poetic beauty of the golden ripe rice fields in October, visitors can also experience the New Rice Celebration of the Mong ethnic group, a ritual to thank ancestors and heaven and earth for favorable weather and bountiful harvests.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Nhung (Bac Giang province) said: "Seeing pictures of Mu Cang Chai on social networks, I already liked it, but when I saw it with my own eyes, it was really majestic, I loved Vietnam even more."

In 2021, Yen Bai received the Certificate of National Special Monument Ranking for Mu Cang Chai Terraced Fields and the Certificate of National Intangible Cultural Heritage "New Rice Celebration of Mong People in Mu Cang Chai District, Yen Bai".

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