Getting lost in Mu Cang Chai during the Chi Pau flower season.

Even though the rice harvest season is over, visiting the small raspberry hill (Mu Cang Chai) in early November, tourists are still amazed by the romantic beauty of the Northwest mountains and forests. The hills are dyed pink by cockscomb flowers (locally called Chi Pau flowers), instantly captivating visitors...

As the golden hues of the harvest fade, Mu Cang Chai reveals a new, sweeter, and more romantic appearance. On the small raspberry-shaped hills (there are two raspberry-shaped hills, distinguished by their size) in Pung Luong commune, swathes of Chi Pau flowers bloom profusely, displaying their pink and purple hues, stretching like a soft carpet amidst the layers of mountains and forests.

These flowers were originally planted by the Hmong people to beautify their villages, and were later transformed into a community tourism destination. With a blooming period lasting 6-7 months, Chi Pâu flower hill has become an ideal check-in spot following the rice harvest season.

From the center of Mu Cang Chai, visitors can hire a motorbike taxi and travel about 10 km along the spectacular mountain pass to reach Hau De village. Amidst the chilly early winter weather, the pink color of the Chi Pau flowers stands out even more against the blue sky.

Even though the rice is no longer ripe, the valleys of flowers stretching across the mountain slopes of Mu Cang Chai at this time of year still captivate visitors.

Photo: Le Nam

The entire hillside is covered in the purple of cockscomb flowers, interspersed with the green and yellow terraced rice fields that are in their late ripening season.

PHOTO: LE NAM

Tourists can freely take photos amidst the vast, seemingly endless fields of flowers at the small Raspberry Hill.

Photo: Ha Mai

The red flag with a yellow star fluttering atop the hill makes domestic tourists who visit here even more proud of the beauty of their country.

PHOTO: LE NAM

Visiting Mu Cang Chai despite the time difference, tourists have an added privilege: the opportunity to take in a breathtaking and expansive natural landscape. This is something impossible during the peak rice harvest season, when crowds flock here to photograph the famous terraced rice fields.

Photo: Ha Mai

The harvest season passes, and the flowering season arrives. Visiting Mu Cang Chai in the days following the floods reveals the vibrant life of the Northwest highlands. Trees sprout new leaves and blossoms; flowers and grasses mingle with the green of the trees and the sky... My heart is suddenly filled with the verses of our ancestors: "This blue sky is ours, these mountains and forests are ours..."

Photo: Ha Mai

 

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