Go to the highlands of the West and Northeast to discover the pouring water season

Every June and July, tourists from all over the world invite each other to the West and Northeast highlands to explore the pouring water season and admire the terraced fields. The pouring water season becomes one of the unique tourism products of the Northern mountainous region that cannot be found anywhere else.

Every June and July, tourists from all over the world invite each other to the West and Northeast highlands to explore the pouring water season and admire the terraced fields. The pouring water season becomes one of the unique tourism products of the Northern mountainous region that cannot be found anywhere else.

The terraced fields in the pouring water season are picturesque

Coming to Bat Xat highland district of Lao Cai province, Mu Cang Chai - Yen Bai, Hoang Su Phi - Ha Giang, then some districts of Lai Chau province watch the stairs north to the blue sky in the pouring season, creating a picture Very beautiful landscape painting.

The view of terraced fields

When the summer rains begin to fall, it is also the time when people in the highlands go to the fields to plow to prepare for a new crop. spilled water.

The pouring water season, also known as the pouring season, is the season when the highland people take water to the terraced fields to prepare for rice transplanting, this is a very important stage to make the golden seasons of terraced fields.

Where to start transplanting, where the seedling has turned green

The water season pours over the terraced fields that overlap each other in endless layers, shimmering and charming, making anyone who witnessed this majestic scene. Amidst the wild mountains and forests, terraced fields overflow with sparkling water, creating vivid and attractive colors that make visitors bewildered.

Preparing for the new job

The terraced fields are filled with water from small creeks in the high mountains, shimmering like reflections, stretching to the horizon. At this time, every citizen, one person at a time, busy and urgently focused on water diversion, embankment, and plowing. The final stage is to pull out the seedling for transplanting, towards a new crop of cotton-laden, heavy-grained rice.

People are transplanting

Due to the use of natural water sources, the upland people can only grow one crop a year. Water flows down from the ravine, through the bamboo tubes, from one field to another. The terraced fields are like multi-colored paintings: the place is yellow and brown of the alluvium, the place is dyed green by the newly sown seedling, the place that reflects the color of the sky: pink at dawn, yellow of the sun, blue of the sky the sky, purple when the sunset falls with contrasting, vivid colors, creating a beautiful picture of nature.

Perhaps, no artist can create works as vivid, natural and full of surprises as the paintings created by the highland people with nature, heaven and earth here.

Tourists from all over the world have come here, have been admiring the magnificent beauty of the Northwest and Northeast terraced fields during the pouring water season.

It is difficult to describe all the emotions when standing at a height, looking down at the terraced fields in the pouring season. A wonderful scene with winding lines of all kinds, with interestingly interwoven colors. You won't get bored watching it all day because the color is always changing because the color of the water reflects the color of the sky and if you're lucky, you'll be able to watch the sun at dawn or dusk break through the clouds into fan-shaped rays. radiating down the slopes of the fields, in the distance are the rolling mountains and forests forming a wonderful and magnificent picture.

Their art of growing wet rice for hundreds of years has created unique natural landscapes, turning the rice fields into a masterpiece of art in the vastness of heaven and earth.

When the water is brought in just enough, the people continue to sow seeds. A few days later, each green field as far as the eye could see began to appear, they drained the water for the rice to germinate. And when those sprouts rise up out of the water, the people bring the water back to the fields for the seedling to grow a bit more. At this time, the terraced fields look like multi-colored paintings: places with yellow alluvium, places dyed with green color of newly sown seeds, and places that reflect purple sky and earth.

Each field has the same message, one after another, and then gradually pours into the clear blue river

The unique characteristics of terraced fields are hills with high slopes, winding terrain, mainly taking advantage of the water from the sky, so the work of leading water to the fields is an "art" that requires skillful hands. talented and industrious.

The pouring water season is probably a masterpiece created by nature and human ingenuity

Each field coincides with the same message one after another, then gradually pours into the clear blue river. Everything is like a piece of color, each unique piece creates a wonderful and harmonious work that is indescribable. The water is sparkling and sparkling, under the afternoon sunlight, it becomes even more dreamy and unforgettable. When the field is full of water, the people eagerly pull each other up to the fields, sow seeds, transplant young seedlings, cover them with a green coat and drain the water for them to germinate. When the seedling is larger, continue to lead the water down for the seedling to grow, then grow gold, and then flower. Just like that, the area in the harvest season, the water poured back in turn, changing clothes, both bringing the red-yellow color of the alluvium, dyeing the delicate green of the young seedlings, and sparkling with the clear water color reflecting the sky.

The terraced fields look like multi-colored paintings: the place has the yellow color of the alluvium, the place is dyed with the green color of the seed that has just been sown, the place where the sky and the earth is reflected in purple.

The pouring water season is probably a masterpiece created by nature and human ingenuity. The terrain in the highlands is hilly, steep and winding, so the terraced fields, or the process of leading water to the fields, is a creative, hard-working and ingenious process. The pouring water season is a tourist specialty that attracts many visitors to admire the vitality of the wild, magnificent and poetic Cao Cao.

During the harvest season, the water changes in turn, bringing the red-yellow color of alluvium, dyeing the green of young seedlings, and sparkling clear water reflecting the sky.

Coming to the highlands in the pouring water season is also an opportunity to meet and witness the enthusiastic labor scene of the highland people, learn how they create these masterpieces. People build dams, embankments, cultivate weeds, people plow the fertile land, repair irrigation systems. The men led the buffalo to plow the fields or till the land with small plows that they skillfully moved from one field to another. Women in national costumes sow seeds, uproot seeds, and transplant rice, many of whom carry small children on their backs or let them sit and play in a dry place so that mothers can take care of them while working. The atmosphere in the new season is very cheerful and bustling.

The terraced fields are like multi-colored paintings: the place is yellow and brown of the alluvium, the place is dyed green by the newly sown see

The terraced fields, whether large or small, are a unique cultural feature, showing the ingenuity in the conquest of nature to serve the lives of the highland people. Their art of growing wet rice for hundreds of years has created very unique natural landscapes, turning the rice fields into a masterpiece of art in the vastness of heaven and earth.

The season of water overflows all over the terraced fields overlapping each other in endless layers, shimmering and seductive, making anyone who witnessed this must also admire this majestic scene.

Tourists from all over the world have come here, have been admiring the magnificent beauty of the terraced fields in the Northwest and Northeast during the pouring water season, immersing in nature, in the beauty of the mountains, forests, clouds and sky. Experiencing the working life of the industrious, simple and hospitable upland people will have unforgettable impressions, will look forward to many more opportunities to return to this place.

The most beautiful places to watch terraced fields in the pouring water season in the Northwest and Northeast:

Bat Xat (Lao Cai): The scene of Bat Xat is like a natural picture with countless colors in the communes of Ngai Thau, Den Sang, Y Ty, A Lu, and Chu Lin.

Sapa (Lao Cai): Here you can see the beautiful terraced fields in the rainy season in the villages of Ta Van, Ta Phin, Hau Thao, Trung Chai and Lao Chai.

Hoang Su Phi (Ha Giang): The beauty of terraced fields in Hoang Su Phi has been recognized by the State as one of the national monuments.

Mu Cang Chai (Yen Bai): La Pan Tan and Che Cu Nha are two communes with the most beautiful fields in Mu Cang Chai.

Tu Le (Yen Bai): Where there is a valley of terraced fields located between three high mountains Khau Pha, Khau Than and Khau Song.

Yen Bai 1601 view

Update day : 06/08/2023