Mu Cang Chai, which is 300
kilometres from Hanoi , is a mountainous district
of the northern province
of Yen Bai. Over the past few years, Mu Cang Chai has become a popular
destination for tourists, researchers and photographers. Mu Cang Chai owns 700
hectares of terraced rice fields, with 70 percent at three communes: La Pan
Tan, Che Cu Nha, De Su Phinh. This traditional cultural heritage of an ethnic
minority was recognised as a national landscape by the Ministry of Culture,
Sport and Tourism. Summer is the season of ripening rice. Travel to Vietnam this time, tourists can enjoy the beauty
of fields where the rice is almost ripe in many places in Vietnam .
Especially in Mu Cang Chai - the home of terraced fields, tourists who travel
to here will have chance to admire this wonderful scenery of ripening rice.