After the cold winter days, spring has brought sunshine, wind and warmth to awaken the mountains and forests of the Northwest, urging this place to change its cold gray coat into a cloak woven from spring flowers. On the highlands of the motherland, spring has come and peach, plum and apricot flowers are blooming, making the mountain and forest landscape change color. The fresh pink peach blossoms, the pure white apricot and plum blossoms shimmering in the spring sunshine have captivated visitors even though they have to overcome the heart-stopping mountain passes.
Still spring flowers, on the journey through the villages, the brilliant yellow mustard flower fields make us amazed. The small pretty mustard flowers bloom around a stem like a flower vine swaying in the wind. Sometimes a whole carpet of yellow mustard flowers seems to compete in color under the ancient peach tree with bright pink flowers blooming beside the stone fence. Professional or amateur photographers will not miss this impressive image.
Passing through the wet spring rains, the late blooming Ban flowers open up a peaceful, gentle sky amidst the majestic mountains. The Thai people compare Ban flowers to pure, faithful love. The blooming of Ban flowers is also a sign of a bountiful harvest.
Along the flower roads, from Hoa Binh to Moc Chau to Son La city on Highway 6, then looping to Lai Chau, to Dien Bien or turning to Sa Pa, Lao Cai, spring flowers bloom to welcome travelers from afar.
If you want to join the crowd of people who are eager to visit the paradise of apricot, plum and peach blossoms, you can go to Moc Chau town (Son La) in late January and early February or visit the misty city of Sa Pa. The road to the Ha Giang stone plateau is also bustling with spring tours to the mountainous region. Flowers bloom on both sides of the road from Ha Giang city to Quan Ba, Yen Minh and are most concentrated in Dong Van and Meo Vac.
Travel enthusiasts and adventurers often avoid crowded flower viewing spots and instead go to remote places. In those places, the destination is the wild beauty that nature bestows, which is always valuable. It could be Bac Ha (Lao Cai) with Tam Hoa plum gardens blooming with pure white flowers in the communes of Lau Thi Ngai, Na Hoi, Ta Chai... It could be Long Luong in Van Ho district (Son La) with peach gardens blooming with ecstasy. It could also be the old Y Ty forest or the Hoang Lien Son range (Lao Cai) with azaleas silently blooming in the quiet space.
The journey to hunt for rhododendrons in spring will certainly take many years to find nearly 40 types of these flowers. There is a spring flower in Yen Bai with a rather strange name - the to day flower, which is enough to invite tourists to this land. The H'Mong people in Tram Tau or Mu Cang Chai districts (Yen Bai) hope that the to day flowers will bloom on the mountain slopes to enjoy the spring festival. That is why people here have a saying: "If you have not seen the to day, you have not seen spring". Just go into the remote villages of La Pan Tan, De Xu Phinh, Nam Khat communes... when the to day flower blooms right on the H'Mong New Year (one month before the Lunar New Year of the Kinh people), you will feel the spring of the mountains and forests warming people's hearts.
Heritage Magazine
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