Lost in Mu Cang Chai in Chi Pau flower season

Even though the rice harvest season has passed, arriving at the small raspberry hill (Mu Cang Chai) in early November, visitors 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) which make people suddenly flutter...

When the yellow color of the harvest gradually fades, Mu Cang Chai takes on a new, sweeter and more romantic appearance. On the small raspberry hill (there are two raspberry hills, distinguished by size), in Pung Luong commune, the Chi Pau flower patches are in full bloom, showing off their purple-pink color, spreading like a soft carpet in the middle of the layered mountain forest.

This flower species is grown by the Mong people to beautify the village, then transformed into a community tourism spot. With a blooming period of up to 6-7 months, Chi Pau flower hill becomes an ideal check-in spot following the ripe rice season.

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

Although there is no more ripe rice, the flower valleys stretching across the mountain slopes in Mu Cang Chai at this time also make tourists lose their way.

Photo: Le Nam

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

PHOTO: LE NAM

Visitors can comfortably check in among the endless flower fields... at the small Raspberry Hill.

Photo: Ha Mai

The red flag with yellow star flying on the hilltop makes domestic tourists coming here more proud of the beauty of the country.

PHOTO: LE NAM

Coming to Mu Cang Chai with the "time difference", tourists also have a privilege, which is to master a romantic and open natural landscape. This is something that cannot be achieved during the peak of rice harvest season when crowds of people flock here to take pictures of the famous terraced fields.

Photo: Ha Mai

Harvest season passes and the flower season comes again. Coming to Mu Cang Chai in the days after the flood, one can see the strong vitality of the Northwest highlands. Trees are budding; flowers and grasses are mixed with the green of trees, clouds and sky... Suddenly, my heart is filled with the verse of our ancestors: "The blue sky here is ours, the mountains and forests here are ours..."

Photo: Ha Mai

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/lac-loi-o-mu-cang-chai-mua-hoa-chi-pau-185251107092300161.htm