At the beginning of August, the hot sunshine poured over the slopes of Sa Pa mountains, each field winding like golden shallow waves, brighter in the sunlight.
Hoang Thuy Duong (32 years old), travel blogger from Bac Giang has just had a short trip at the end of July to Sa Pa to hunt early ripening rice.
This is Duong’s second time to Sapa in the rice season. During this trip, she visited villages far from the center such as Ta Phin, Ta Van, Hau Thao, Seo My Ty lake and was especially fascinated with the yellow color of Nam Cang.
Unlike other lands in the Northwest, Sa Pa only has a single rice crop a year and the harvest season will start from mid-August to the end of September. The ripening rice season in Sa Pa is also scattered by location and weather every year.
Nam Cang, about 50 km from the town center, is a village that still retains the wild and charming features of terraced fields in Sapa. Looking down from the rice soup hut, the scene is extremely poetic, making everyone come to admire and exclaim “Sa Pa is so beautiful”.
Seeing the majestic mountain scenery, many people think of “an Alps” in the heart of Sapa, but it is dear and bold in the Northwest by the terraced fields embracing the mountainside.
Layer by layer, layer by layer of terraced fields with green colors mixed with ripe yellow, pulling each other to the horizon, surrounded by majestic mountains and high blue sky, creating a spacious and poetic picture. .
“This place definitely changes many people’s minds about a noisy, urbanized Sa Pa. Because tourists only in town, they will not fully understand how vast and beautiful Sapa is,” Thuy Duong said. .
Duong was introduced by a local guide as the terraced fields here are thousands of years old. In July and August, the rice season in these villages begins to grow and ripen. Plus, the weather is cool at 20-25 degrees Celsius, so this time to Sapa is the most beautiful of the year. In some places, the rice will ripen around early September.
The most impressive moment in Duong’s journey was riding a motorbike, dropping himself on the winding passes in Nam Cang, watching the scenery of ripe golden terraces. The smell of fragrant rice, the sound of streams flowing at the foot of the mountain… all create a harmonious picture of nature, soothing anyone’s soul.
If you do not have time to welcome the golden rice season in Nam Cang, visitors do not have to worry because the terraced fields in Muong Hoa valley, Ta Phin and Ta Van villages in the town center are still wearing green and fresh clothes. . Rice covers the hillsides and spills into the valleys, embracing the villages and poetic streams… The whole space is green and one color, fragrant with new rice, creating a scene full of vitality, signaling the harvest. Bumper.
Besides walking, visitors choose “the bird’s eye view”, to see the spectacular rice season scenery of Sa Pa on the cable car route to the sacred peak of Fansipan. The summer sun shines through the clouds, forming dark streaks of light that adorn the majestic scenery of Hoang Lien Son mountains and green valleys.
Especially when coming to the sacred Fansipan peak at an altitude of 3,143m, visitors seem to be walking in the middle of the “fairy landscape”, where the earth and the sky meet by the cool weather in the middle of summer, the white clouds wrapped around tangerines. feet.Conquering Fansipan peak, walking on the roads following the mountain and admiring the spiritual complex, visitors will return to the embrace of mother nature, temporarily putting aside the chaos of life.
In August, more than 2 hectares of Drumstick flowers begin to bloom brightly on the sacred peak of Fansipan. This is a flower imported and successfully planted on the top of Fansipan, where previously only dwarf bamboos and rhododendrons stood.The red-orange color of the rice solstice shines in the autumn sun like brocade weaving, embroidering flowers on the deep blue sky of the “Roof of Indochina”.
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