the beautiful places in viet nam

We went to Mu Cang Chai at the midday close. The highland town of smog around frantically in the highlands province of Yen Bai remain dormant in the bright sunshine yellow fence. Generous sunny hills gold shutter identical and non ngut region high burnt thousands of Americans. Blooming faces Sunny rustic woodland of the Mongolian woman. Ethnic groups make up over 90% of the population Mu Cang Chai, divided into four groups as Mongolia flowers, Mongolia black, red and Mong Mong white. The remainder are Thai and Kinh.

District market here is full of famous products of Mu Cang Chai: armpit stolen pig, chicken, black, black tea Shan Snow ... Chicken Mu Cang Chai delicious tingle hours, the meat firm but still soft, you may climb more mountains and eat rice from the rice grown in the green terraced rice fields fertile.

Pork is also a special armpit theft in this district, each weighing only a few signed. Mong by unbridled pig around the house. The market price for pig stealing an armpit is 100,000.

Like many mountain towns that we go through the journey of discovery throughout the northwestern arc, Mu Cang Chai had electricity, roads, schools, stations, ethnic minorities have motorcycle travel, has television to see, karaoke sound pretty well fell dispel the sad part of the mountains. Moreover, do not be surprised when you meet a girl beautiful dress Mongolian ethnic conflict and "talk your way" with cell phone use Viettel waves ...

State roads are pretty good investment, transportation convenience to Mu Cang Chai is now no longer hear the new sites have been found as far away previously ignored anymore.

After stops in Binh Lu Market (the town of Tam Duong, Lai Chau province), we go through the town of Than Uyen, where border between Lai Chau and Yen Bai province and beyond 40km from here on Highway 32 to to Mu Cang Chai. The landscape on either side really spectacular stretches of rice fields with the endless mountains and forests located between the vast blue sky.

Roads like Highway 32 is the lifeblood, the backbone connecting the plains with the opposite domain, a bridge between urban and village. If there is no highways, bridges, roads pass through the mountain forest with no known civilization ever new light on the nation around him.

From the terraced fields in three communes of Mu Cang Chai, La Pan Tan, Che Cu Nha and to treat swollen by the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism ranked as national monuments, tourists poured up here Forward, mostly foreign tourists. Germans constitute the largest percentage, but probably not much for simplicity, Mu Cang Chai guests to not have many places to stay overnight, except for Mo Stream and a private vacation home in the town.

From the center of town, about nine miles, then go to La Pan Tan commune to visit the terraced fields. The road is running around all over the commune to glide down the winding back as soft silk covered mountains new message is identical to the district authorities to serve tourists after the terraced fields are "on life."

Two mountain side, beneath the sky and on halfway, the endless terraced fields. These plots green eyes ache it followed the other classes, particularly the taking of land hugging the hills and pulling away on the horizon headline set. Not pen any description that most magnificent beauty.

Choose a destination on high, trying to collect all the giant steps in ngut thousand eyes but he just found a unique blue color of the rice fields gather together and get round to form a continuous connection tray away. Both Mu Cang Chai district has 2,200 hectares of terraced fields, in particular the 198 hectare La Pan Tan, and Gold said Van Vu, Mongolian boy who, it included three communes La Pan Tan, Che Cu Nha and to treat aneurysm the area is 500 hectares of terraced fields and be kept intact.

Five hundred hectares of farmland this is the relic, the heritage of the Mongolian state recognition. And terraces, attached to the Mongolian capital of eternal life lives, is also associated with images of their life settlement. Dance with our proud boast that the aspirant only rice on the bottom lane (ie ladder), whereas in Mu Cang Chai Thai rice cultivation in the lowlands.

Not only in La Pan Tan, but along the same route from Mu Cang Chai Tu Le long 50km away where the first message is identical identical messages terraces. Wu explained to me why the Mongols created a unique type of farming has become a second cultural heritage not only of Mu Cang Chai, but also the North West this. In the high mountains as Mu Cang Chai, most arable land is distributed on red gold feralit elevation is approximately 1,000 m from steep 30% or more, while the terrain continued to be divided not suitable for rice cultivation in the form of milpa. Mongolian compatriots to choose low hills, wide terraces in order to take advantage of spring water and rain water flowing down from above.

Water splitting techniques of Mongolian style from coast to coast field on the field not seamless to minimize flood, creating a strong flow of shore break and wash away soil.

Top view Mu Cang Chai terraced fields, is probably the most ideal occasion in April, in May, when the people to harvest. Absorbed in her baby photos on the harvest of nine gold terraced rice fields and shiny image is probably the purest beauty and simplicity of life in Mongolia's remote districts but was just this close.