This September, make your way to Yen Bai to witness the golden season of Mu Cang Chai.

The mountains and hills of the Northwest are ablaze with the golden hue of the terraced rice fields, creating a mesmerizing landscape.

Come to Yen Bai this September to explore the golden season of Mu Cang Chai.

In September, the sky is a deep blue, adorned with wisps of floating white clouds, creating a serene atmosphere. The golden leaves of the sycamore trees dance playfully in the gentle breeze, while the sun casts a warm, honeyed glow without harshness. It's a time when hearts are touched by the beauty of nature, igniting a passion for wandering the roads of the Northwest.

In less than a month, the mountains and hills of the Northwest will be aglow with the golden hue of the terraced rice fields. The H'mong people's stairways to the sky seem to be generously adorned with rice, stretching from the foot of the mountain to the endless blue sky.

The terraced fields of the H'mong people in Tule Valley, La Pan Tan, and Mu Cang Chai are breathtaking. Using only a small butterfly-shaped hoe, the strength of their hands, and millennia of experience, the H'mong have created large and small patches of terraced fields with uniform levels, equal heights, and equal water levels, forming one of the most beautiful terraced field landscapes in Vietnam.

Many urban visitors have been enchanted by the neatly arranged terraced fields, which resemble piano keys, blending harmoniously into the endless symphony of mountains and forests, accompanied by mountain breezes, babbling streams, melodious bird chirps, and the laughter of harvest days.

Therefore, the golden season of Mu Cang Chai captivates countless travelers. As the green hills transition to gold, online forums and Facebook pages are flooded with plans for 'golden season adventures' across the country. Suddenly, Highway 32 is bustling with those 'leaving the city for the forest', eager to shake off the dusty, dull, and busy urban life for a couple of days in the wilderness.

Let's go! The temptation is as sweet as honey poured into the ears, like the serpent tempting Eve and Adam with the apple. Along the twists and turns of the 380km journey from Hanoi to Mu Cang Chai, despite the winding road, one side towering mountains, the other deep abyss.

On the way to the golden season of Mu Cang Chai, who could overlook Tú Lệ? It's a small, charming valley, as lovely as a cam tu flower. Pause here as the twilight shadows drift and tint the roadside cliffs with purple hues.

Tú Lệ is famous for its sticky rice, as the saying goes, 'Tú Lệ rice, Mường Lò tobacco'. So, you must savor a bowl of five-color sticky rice made from Tú Lệ rice. This season, with freshly harvested rice, the fragrance permeates even the grains themselves. How can one resist when the rice grains become sticky rice, with the enticing aroma lingering in the hands and throats of travelers.

That fragrance will linger in the soul for many years to come, creating a scent of longing. So that whenever the yellow leaves rustle, the heart will nostalgically recall an evening on the mountain slopes, sitting with friends amidst the mountain breeze, delicately picking at a sticky rice cake or sharing the grains of Thai com made from this magical rice.

Passing through Tú Lệ leads to the Khau Phạ Cloud Pass (in Thai meaning the Horn of Heaven), the starting point of Mu Cang Chai. The Khau Phạ Pass stretches about 30km, with the highest point reaching 1,500m above sea level, resembling a horn piercing through the sea of clouds and reaching for the sky.

Here, it's almost always shrouded in misty clouds. Standing atop the Khau Phạ Pass, if lucky to catch a clear day with scattered clouds, look down at the Cao Phạ fields below, dotted with yellow, green, and brown, forming a magnificent tapestry.

After crossing the pass, the mist gradually dissipates, and suddenly Mu Cang Chai appears amidst a plateau surrounded by the majestic Hoang Lien Son mountain range. The air is filled with the fragrance of ripened rice from the smooth terraced fields.

The beauty of Mu Cang Chai's golden season is so diverse that the eyes can never be satiated, for it is a grand masterpiece with many different patches and angles. Keep walking, keep admiring, and you will see the various beauties of the terraced fields here.

These are the small, winding fields forming beautiful patterns like fingerprints of the earth in La Pán Tẩn. They are no longer just rice fields but have transformed into architectural artworks of the H'mong people. They are the shimmering golden fields bathed in autumn sunlight, under the clear blue sky of Ban Lìm Mông, hidden deep within the white clouds. They are the meandering golden streaks across the sky at Chế Cu Nha, Dế Xu Phình.

Amidst this pleasant autumn weather with gentle sunshine and breeze, walking among these lush rice fields, visitors feel enchanted, like bees forgetting their way home. The city lights suddenly fade and become a forgotten memory amidst the vast expanse of golden rice fragrance.

Who's up for admiring the golden season this September?

As per Ngôi Sao

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Reference: Travel guide from Mytour