Paintings of the water pouring season

When the first rains of the season come across the mountains and forests of the Northwest, it is also the beginning of the water season on the terraced fields of the ethnic minorities in the highlands, starting the only new crop season of the year here.

The water flowing from upstream brings a new colorful coat, with the color of the golden sunlight, the water surface like a mirror reflecting the sky, the lush green young rice, dotted with the scene of ethnic people enthusiastically planting rice...

The Northwest seems to paint vivid natural pictures, with layered, soft curves that urge hearts that love to travel and love nature to come here.

If you have ever been moved by the golden rice fields of harvest season, then surely you will once again experience fresh emotions before nature in the pouring water season.

The water season floods the terraced fields, creating vibrant and shimmering colors that make many tourists admire this majestic scene.

If the West has a flood season, the Northwest gives you an extremely impressive flood season. The flood season, also known as the flood season, is the time to bring water to the terraced fields to prepare for rice planting and is considered an important stage for a bumper harvest.

The terraced fields of the Northwest region have winding terrain and steep slopes, mainly taking advantage of rainwater, so bringing water to the fields is a difficult job, requiring skill and diligence. Not only the rice harvest season but also the water pouring season has become a unique tourism product of the mountainous region on the water that cannot be found anywhere else.

The mountainous Northwest region usually only grows one crop a year. When the summer rains begin to fall, ethnic minorities begin to bring water to their fields.

Amidst the majestic highland scenery, everywhere we see terraced fields sparkling like mirrors, and the small figures of highland people working hard in the middle of the sky and earth. All create a colorful multi-dimensional picture that makes it hard for you to take your eyes off.

When you mention Mu Cang Chai, what do you usually think of? The image of beautiful golden terraced fields in the ripe rice season. But few people know that Mu Cang Chai also has a beautiful flood season with flooded fields.

Mu Cang Chai in the pouring water season is full of life, the terraced fields sparkling with water are charming and mysterious as if wearing a new colorless coat. More specifically, to admire the vivid picture of Mu Cang Chai in the pouring water season, you can experience paragliding.

Terraced fields are a unique form of farming of the highland people. This is a vivid expression of the complete adaptation of people in the tropical monsoon climate to nature in respect and protection of the environment.

Terraced fields have been formed and maintained for hundreds of years, a method of wet rice cultivation with techniques passed down through generations and are an intellectual product, demonstrating the creativity in adapting to climate, soil and irrigation conditions of ethnic groups in mountainous areas.

In order to promote tourism as well as the beauty of terraced fields, every year Mu Cang Chai district organizes "flooding season" tourism activities to attract a large number of tourists to the highlands here.

Heritage Magazine