Go to the highlands of the West and Northeast to explore the flood season

Every June and July, tourists from all over come to the highlands of the West and Northeast to explore the flood season and admire the terraced fields. Falling water season has become one of the unique tourism products of the Northern mountainous region that cannot be found anywhere else.
Come to Bat Xat highland district of Lao Cai province, Mu Cang Chai - Yen Bai, Hoang Su Phi - Ha Giang, and then some districts of Lai Chau province to see the stairs up to the blue sky in the pouring water season, creating an extremely beautiful landscape picture.

The terraced fields in the rainy season are picturesque
When the summer rains begin to fall, it is also the time when highland people go to the fields to plow in preparation for a new crop and this is also the time when the terraced fields, which were once dry, are now filled with water, bringing the magical beauty of the Falling Water Season.
The flood season, also known as the flood season, is the season when highland people take water to the terraced fields to prepare for rice cultivation. This is a very important period to create golden seasons in terraced fields.
The water season overflows all over the terraced fields, overlapping each other in endless layers, shimmering and seductive, making anyone who witnesses it marvel at this majestic scene. In the middle of the wild mountains and forests, the terraced fields of sparkling water create vivid and attractive colors that make visitors bewildered.

Preparing for the new crop
The terraced fields are filled with water from small creeks in the high mountains, shimmering like reflective mirrors, stretching to the horizon. At this time, all people, each with their own work, are busy and urgently focusing on draining water, building banks, and plowing. The final step is to pull out the seedlings to transplant, aiming for a new crop of rice plants with heavy flowers and grains.
Due to the use of natural water sources, highland people can only grow one crop a year. Water flows down from the ravine, through bamboo pipes, from one field level to another. Terraced fields are like multi-colored paintings: some are yellow and brown from alluvium, some are dyed green from just sown seedlings, some reflect the color of the sky: pink at dawn, yellow in the sun, blue in the sky, purple when sunset falls with contrasting, vivid colors, creating a beautiful natural picture.
Perhaps, no artist can create works that are as vivid, natural and full of surprises as the paintings created by the highland people and the nature, land and sky here.
Tourists from all over have come here and admired the majestic beauty of the Northwest and Northeast terraced fields during the flood season
It's difficult to describe all the emotions when standing at a height, looking down at the terraced fields during the rainy season. A truly magnificent scene with curving lines of all kinds, with interesting interwoven colors. You can stand and watch all day and you won't get bored because the colors are always changing because the color of the water reflects the color of the sky. If you're lucky, you'll be able to watch the sun at dawn or sunset break through the clouds into fan-shaped rays of sunlight radiating down onto the rice fields, in the distance are rolling mountains and forests, creating a wonderful, majestic picture.
Their art of growing wet rice over the past hundreds of years has created extremely unique natural landscapes, turning the rice fields into an artistic masterpiece amidst the vastness of heaven and earth
When enough water is added, people continue to sow seeds. A few days later, green fields as far as the eye could see began to appear. They drained the water to let the rice germinate. And when those seedlings pop up and stretch out of the water, the people return the water to the fields to let the seedlings grow a little more. At this time, the terraced fields look like multi-colored paintings: some are yellow from alluvium, some are dyed green from just sown seedlings, some reflect the purple sky and earth.
Each field overlaps one after another, then gradually flows down to the clear blue river
The unique characteristics of terraced fields are hills and mountains with high slopes and winding terrain, mainly taking advantage of sky water, so the job of bringing water to the fields is an "art" that requires skillful, talented and diligent hands.
The pouring water season is probably a masterpiece created by nature and human ingenuity
Each field overlaps one after another, then gradually flows down to the clear blue river. It's all like each array of colors, each unique puzzle piece, creating a wonderful and indescribably harmonious work. The sparkling water, under the pouring afternoon sunlight, makes it even more dreamy and unforgettable. When the fields have enough water, the people eagerly pull each other up to the fields, sow seeds, transplant young seedlings, cover them with a lush green layer and drain the water to let them germinate. When the seedlings get bigger, continue to bring water down so that the seedlings grow bigger, then grow yellow, and then bloom. Just like that, during the harvest season, the water changes its clothes one by one, taking on the red-yellow color of alluvium, dyeing the green of young rice seedlings, and sparkling with the clear water color reflecting the sky.
The terraced fields look like multi-colored paintings: some have the yellow color of alluvium, some are dyed green by just sown seedlings, some reflect the sky and earth in purple
The pouring water season is probably a masterpiece created by nature and human ingenuity. The terrain in the highlands is hilly and winding, so the terraced fields, or the process of bringing water to the fields, is truly a work of creativity, hard work and ingenuity. Falling water season is a tourist specialty that attracts many tourists to admire the vitality of the wild, majestic and extremely poetic highlands.
In the harvest season, the pouring water changes clothes one by one, taking on the red-yellow color of alluvium, dyeing the green of young rice seedlings, and sparkling with the clear water color reflecting the sky
Coming to the highlands during the flood season is also an opportunity to meet and witness the enthusiastic labor scene of highland people and learn how they create these masterpieces. People built dams, embanked banks, weeded, plowed fertile land, repaired irrigation systems. Men lead buffaloes to plow the fields or till the land with small plows that they skillfully move from one field level to another. Women in national costumes sow seeds, pull seedlings, and transplant rice, many of them carrying small children on their backs or letting them sit and play in a dry place so that mothers can look after them while working. The atmosphere in the new season is very happy and bustling.
The terraced fields are like multi-colored paintings: some are yellow and brown from alluvium, some are dyed green from just sown seedlings
The terraced fields, whether large or small, are a unique cultural feature, demonstrating ingenuity in conquering nature to serve the lives of highland people. Their art of wet rice cultivation over the past hundreds of years has created extremely unique natural landscapes, turning the rice fields into an artistic masterpiece amid the vastness of heaven and earth. During the season, water pours all over the terraced fields overlapping each other in endless layers, shimmering and seductive, making anyone who witnesses it marvel at this majestic scene
Tourists from all over who have come here, have admired the majestic beauty of the Northwest and Northeast terraced fields during the flood season, immersed themselves in nature, the beauty of the mountains, forests, clouds, and sky, experienced the working life of the hardworking, simple, and hospitable highland people will have unforgettable impressions, and will look forward to many more opportunities to return to this place.
The most beautiful places to view terraced fields in the rainy season in the Northwest and Northeast:
Bat Xat (Lao Cai): The scenery of Bat Xat is like a natural picture with countless colors in the communes of Ngai Thau, Den Sang, Y Ty, A Lu, Khu Chu Lin.
Sa Pa (Lao Cai): Here you can see beautiful terraced fields in the rainy season in the villages of Ta Van, Ta Phin, Hau Thao, Trung Chai, Lao Chai.
Hoang Su Phi (Ha Giang): The beauty of terraced fields in Hoang Su Phi has been recognized by the State as one of the national relics.
Mu Cang Chai (Yen Bai): La Pan Tan and Che Cu Nha are the two communes with the most beautiful fields in Mu Cang Chai.
Tu Le (Yen Bai): Where there is a valley of terraced fields located between three high mountains Khau Pha, Khau Than and Khau Song.
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Update day : 06/08/2023
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