The terraced fields welcome water, reflect the sky and bright rays of sunlight, creating an extremely beautiful and sparkling scene. Mixed in there are colorful flower hills, stretching hundreds of meters along with primeval forests, endless cinnamon fields, wild and peaceful streams... That place is called Phong Du Thuong, one of the " "fairyland" in the Northwest highlands. In the middle of Summer, as scheduled, we returned to Phong Du Thuong, Van Yen district. The terraced fields, after months of dry days, were awakened by the first summer rains that began to pour down, water overflowing onto each terraced field like giant mirrors reflecting the clouds, sky, mountains and forests of the West. Bac... turns the western land of Van Yen cinnamon land into a meeting point for many tourists.
With a complex of terraced fields in Khe Tau village, hot springs in Cao Son village, Khe Ban and Khe Mang waterfalls, there is rarely any land in Van Yen district that "accumulates" as much tourism potential as Phong Du Thuong. - a land with beautiful natural landscapes, friendly and hospitable people and rich traditional culture, especially of the Mong people. In recent years, the Party Committee and commune authorities have focused on investing and effectively exploiting tourism potential in a sustainable way. The entire area of terraced fields is estimated to be nearly 50 hectares at an altitude of about 1,000 m above sea level. The entire terraced field terrain is located on a high mountain slope in Khe Tau village but divided by waterfalls and streams; From here you can see the entire landscape of Phong Du Thuong commune. The climate is relatively harsh, farming in this area is difficult, to adapt to nature, for hundreds of years, the Mong people here have always worked diligently, exposed to rain and sun with a pair of tables. Skillful hands, creativity and rudimentary agricultural tools turned the highland land into fertile and majestic terraced "towers" like today. Each field slope has a length of dozens to several dozen steps. These are all associated with the history of residence over many generations of the people According to local people, the wet season in Phong Du Thuong usually lasts from May to July, followed by the ripe rice season, from late August to mid-October. The time when Phong Du Thuong put on an extremely eye-catching new shirt with golden "sea of rice" reaching to the horizon. Each season of Phong Du Thuong has its own beauty, but the pouring water season and the ripe rice season are the two most beautiful times, so this is also the time when the locality welcomes the most tourists of the year. When the forest rains loudly fall, people here will take advantage of the opportunity to bring water to the fields for cultivation. Water crept in every way, covering the entire valley, pouring from high fields to lower fields. The terraced fields welcome water, reflect the sky and bright rays of sunlight, creating an extremely beautiful and sparkling scene. Admire the scene of terraced fields in the early morning with soft curves, glimpses of white clouds, bright sunlight at dawn, small, lovely roofs and be captivated by the scent of rice. Mountains and trees will give visitors an extremely spacious feeling. Phong Du Thuong is like a giant natural painting with terraced fields sparkling with water, with unique raspberry hills, mixed with colorful flower hills, located halfway up the mountain, on the mountain. The entire path sometimes connects from the top of the mountain to the stream with a height of hundreds of meters. Primeval forests, endless cinnamon fields, ancient tea fields, houses and streams appear before the eyes of visitors with a wild, peaceful scene. Phong Du Thuong terraced fields are gradually asserting their brand on the tourist map, becoming more known to domestic and foreign tourists. Phong Du Thuong is blessed by nature with primeval forests upstream of the Suoi stream and hot mineral springs, associated with it are unique attractions and cultural diversity of ethnic groups: Dao, Tay, Mong... The combination of those factors has become an advantage that creates a unique tourist space of Phong Du Thuong. The Mong, Dao, and Tay people living in Phong Du Thuong commune have unique traditional cultural treasures, this is great potential for the district to develop cultural tourism products combined with community tourism. . The ethnic people here still maintain their original identities, from their costumes to their culture, customs, and even their sincerity, innocence, and hospitality. A gentle smile that melts in the sun, the wind, in nature, in the middle of the mountains and forests makes people love life more, love life, and all their sorrows disappear. Preserving and developing traditional occupations, a number of cultural and tourist villages with bold identities have attracted a large number of tourists to visit and stay such as: Cultural and tourist villages of Ban Lung village, Than Village, Khe Tau ; There are 8 homestay models and 2 community tourism cooperative groups in operation, not only bringing revenue to the people but also contributing to preserving and promoting cultural values and natural beauty to develop tourism. . In particular, on terraced fields, Phong Du Thuong people not only grow rice but also raise sturgeon, creating a unique and new tourism product that attracts tourists. The fish-rice intercropping model not only contributes to increasing income per unit of cultivated area, but also creates new tourism products, attracting tourists to experience. Phong Du Thuong also has many extremely unique culinary products, with mountain and forest specialties meticulously and skillfully prepared from hill chickens, local black pigs, bamboo shoots, upland sticky rice, corn, and cassava. , taro, cardamom, amomum... Like a sleeping princess in the forest, the tourism potential in Phong Du Thuong is being awakened.
Phong Du Thuong is expected to be a locality that gradually transforms its economic structure towards tourism as a new economy for the people. Building quality product packages at affordable prices, with attractive prices, and unique tourism products based on the exploitation of natural resources and unique cultural values of ethnic minorities will create a highlight for local tourism and create unique features that attract tourists to visit and experience.
Yen Bai
From May to October.
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