Apple Blossom Season

The white hawthorn flowers bloom, covering the entire Nam Nghiep village, making the surrounding landscape as beautiful as a painting. After the peach and plum blossoms end, the hawthorn flowers will bloom throughout Nam Nghiep village in Ngoc Chien commune, Muong La district, Son La province.

Author Do Truong Vinh will let you experience the simple but extremely brilliant beauty of the cat flower season through the photo series "Apple Blossom Season". The photo series was submitted by the author to the Happy Vietnam Photo and Video Contest , organized by the Ministry of Information and Communications.

Located on the trekking route to Ta Chi Nhu peak, Nam Nghiep village in Ngoc Chien commune, Muong La district, has become a popular tourist destination in recent years. In addition to its wild beauty, every March, many tourists come to take photos of the village when the hawthorn flowers bloom, painting the mountains and forests white.

To reach this Teo Meo flower forest, visitors must drive about 25 km from the center of Muong La to Ngoc Chien commune, then travel about 13 km more on dirt road to Nam Nghiep village. The road to the village is a bit difficult to travel.

From afar, you can see a hill of hawthorn flowers blooming like snow, Nam Nghiep village is at an altitude of about 2,500 m above sea level. The crabapple trees are planted by the locals around their houses and on the hillsides. The crabapple tree is closely associated with the life of the Mong people in the highlands.

The hawthorn flower does not have the pure white beauty of plum or pear blossoms, nor the gracefulness of cherry blossoms, but is naturally beautiful and simple like the people here.

The blooming flowers signal the ripening of spring. Around September and October, the hawthorn fruit is ripe enough to harvest. The locals often use the fruit to soak in wine, honey or sugar.

Here, the climate is the coolest in Muong La district, home to more than 100 households of the Black Mong ethnic group and hundreds of ancient hawthorn trees. Hawthorn (also known as Son Tra) is mostly grown naturally, requiring no care.

In recent years, every season the cat's claw flowers bloom, attracting the attention of tourists, especially young people, and becoming a highlight of the village./.

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