Khuoi My in the ripe rice season - the second Hoang Su Phi of Ha Giang

TCCT Looking at the neat terraced fields on the vast fields of Khuoi My village during the ripe rice season, many people exclaimed: this is the second Hoang Su Phi of Ha Giang.

TCCT Looking at the neat terraced fields on the vast fields of Khuoi My village during the ripe rice season, many people exclaimed: this is the second Hoang Su Phi of Ha Giang.

Recently, Khuoi My is well known and receives a large number of tourists, especially when Khuoi My is in the ripe rice season.

Khuoi My is the name of a small village located on the slopes of the Tay Con Linh range in Phuong Do commune, about 12km from the center of Ha Giang city. With an altitude of 1000 to 1200m and favorable nature, the climate in Khuoi My Ha Giang village is cool and pleasant all year round.

With an altitude of 1000 to 1200m and favorable nature, the climate in Khuoi My Ha Giang village is cool and pleasant all year round.

Khuoi My is the residential area of ​​the Dao and Tay people, they live in simple, rustic wooden stilt houses with palm roofs. Over time, the palm roof covered with moss exudes ancient beauty.

Khuoi My is the residential area of ​​the Dao and Tay people

Khuoi My village is a combination of three small villages: Na Thac, Khuoi My and Lung Vai. In Khuoi My village, people mainly farm for a living.

The road to Khuoi My is relatively small with many sudden turns and steep slopes. Although it is a concrete road, because it has been built for a long time and because of the harsh weather here during the rainy season, the road also has many potholes and is damaged in some places. So to get to Khuoi My village, you can only travel by motorbike or high-clearance 7-seat car.

The road to Khuoi My is relatively small with many sudden sharp turns

The terraced fields here are the livelihood of generations of Dao and Tay ethnic people. Besides cultivating terraced fields, people also dig small ponds to raise fish right next to their houses. The water source for raising fish is also brought directly from the mountain stream, so it is always renewed. The fish raised here are also often much larger, with fish sometimes weighing up to 3.4 kg which is very normal.

Enter photo caption The terraced fields here have been the livelihood of generations of Dao and Tay ethnic people.

The Dao people in Khuoi Nhi have lived in stilt houses leaning against the Tay Con Linh mountain range for more than 300 years. The traditional houses of the people here are mainly stilt houses with palm roofs. There are houses on stilts with thick palm roofs covered with moss under the influence of fog all year round. The older the house, the thicker the moss, the greener, and the more beautiful it is.

The houses on stilts have thick palm roofs covered with moss

In autumn, when the rice begins to turn golden, the natural scenery here puts on a golden coat as clear as the sun, brilliant but also pure. From the terraced fields spreading out evenly, winding around the hillsides and mountain backs, the ripe rice turns from green to shiny yellow, creating a enchanting scene.

The enchanting beauty of Khuoi My during the ripe rice season

Like many other beautiful villages in Ha Giang, visitors to Khuoi My, in addition to experiencing sightseeing, can also learn more about the life of the Dao people here. In particular, the indigenous people also give you wonderful experiences such as picking Cardamom under the canopy of the old forest; Picking ancient Shan Tuyet tea hundreds of years old on the slopes of the Tay Con Linh mountain range.

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The Dao and Tay people in Khuoi My village are extremely hospitable. They will entertain visitors with many delicious dishes imbued with local cultural identity such as sour pork, black chung cake, cassava sticky rice, frogs, bamboo-tube rice, dried buffalo meat, etc. Each dish has its own unique flavor that contributes to creating a special culinary mark for the land of Ha Giang.

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Update day : 11/11/2023