What does Hoang Su Phi have to attract tourists to Ha Giang (2023)

Hoang Su Phi is always famous for its vast terraced fields. How should Ha Giang Tourism come here? Which season to go? Discover right in this article before taking Ha Giang Tour with Indochina Vacation there!

Where is Hoang Su Phi?

Location of Hoang Su Phi in Ha Giang 

Hoang Su Phi is located in the west of Ha Giang, a small district with mostly hilly terrain on the upper reaches of the Chay River. Most of the mountainous people living here are ethnic minorities. They live a simple, peaceful and extremely diligent life. Referring to Hoang Su Phi, one cannot forget the image of immense green terraced fields stretching across the mountainside. In a windy afternoon, walking on dirt roads, walking along streams, listening to the murmuring water, chirping birds...  Ha Giang tourists can temporarily put aside the chaos the surface of life but resting in the arms of mother nature. 

Highland people choose the main form of farming is on sloping land - creating terraced fields to facilitate irrigation and fertilization. The plots of land are planned in steps so that the water from above leads down more smoothly. In the ripe rice season, all over Hoang Su Phi is a shiny golden color, mesmerizingly beautiful. It can be said that slow-motion movies of Hoang Su Phi deserve to become a masterpiece of humanity. Not only visiting and admiring the natural beauty of the highlands, visitors to Ha Giang tours also have the opportunity to learn about the cultural and labor activities of the ethnic people living here. The whole district of Hoang Su Phi has about 25 communes including Tay, Nung, H'Mong, Dao... living and settling down. They are the true "artisans" who have created a beautiful Hoang Su Phi legend as it is today. 

Ban Phung - Hoang Su Phi 

To this day, people have not found the answer to the question: Who invented this form of terraced farming? No one at  Hoang Su Phi  could know why this masterpiece of terraced fields was formed. They only know that, from birth, growing up and in the late afternoon, the image of terraced fields has always been associated with the memories of  Hoang Su Phi. To be able to create terraced fields with a structure of hundreds of steps like today, it takes hundreds of years of nurturing mother nature and the diligent hands of the people here. In return, Hoang Su Phi helps ethnic people living in Ha Giang live a peaceful and stable life. People consider every inch of land and field as treasure, and a priceless asset that can only be given away when children get married, get married, etc. 

What does Hoang Su Phi look like in the rainy season? 

Hoang Su Phi 

Unlike the terraced fields in  Mu Cang Chai  or Y Ty, Hoang Su Phi in the fall season has its own unique charm and characteristics that can fascinate anyone. When summer comes, Ha Giang people joyfully enter a new crop. People will take advantage of water from above to pour into the field for cultivation. The image of the water rolling back, flowing down each step, spreading throughout the valley made Hoang Su Phi suddenly turn into a giant mirror, illuminating the entire Northeastern mountains and forests. When the sun rises, pouring golden rays like honey into each field, Hoang Su Phi suddenly becomes sparkling, magical and mysterious like in a fairy tale. That ecstatic sight has inspired many photographers to create the most realistic and vivid artistic images of highland life. This is also the reason why every time the flood season comes, the Ha Giang tours from Hanoi bring visitors here to admire the natural wonders of the mountains. 

Hoang Su Phi is so beautiful in the ripe rice season?

Different from the time of sowing in the water season, Hoang Su Phi the ripe rice season has a much gentler and quieter appearance. The ripe rice season in Hoang Su Phi takes place around September-October of the year. The fields, the golden terraced fields, tilt with each wind and somewhere still have the sweet scent of ripe rice. 

Especially, if traveling to Ha Giang around this time, visitors will feel the characteristic cold of the highland winter. In the morning, the mist covered Hoang Su Phi's path, mixed with the scent of ripe rice full of love and poetry. Visitors to Ha Giang tour can also experience farm work, try specialties made from newly harvested young rice or participate in special festivals of the highland ethnic people in this ripe rice season. . 

What's the specialty of Ha Giang? 

Not fine food, but the  Ha Giang specialties in Hoang Su Phi converge all the quintessence of the Northeast and the culinary arts of Vietnam. Going to Ha Giang - Hoang Su Phi without once enjoying the hot and fragrant pot of Thang Co , greasy au tau porridge,  Chef-stemming buffalo meat,  kitchen guard pork, sweet sweet dandelion,... it's a pity. . 

Kitchen guard buffalo meat 

A famous dish of Hoang Su Phi that you should not ignore is rat meat from La Chi ethnic group. People process rat meat into many different dishes such as: stir-fried rat meat, grilled mouse meat, or kitchen mouse meat. The taste of soft, delicious, and rich rat meat from mountain ingredients has created an attractive dish, eaten once and then remembered forever. In addition, the specialty black pork dish of the H'Mong and Dao people is also a dish praised by the most gourmet mouths. Black pork dish in Hoang Su Phi is completely different from lowland pork: the meat is firm, low in fat and contains a lot of nutrients inside. 

Ha Giang bau tau porridge 

It's no coincidence that Hoang Su Phi became one of the hottest places Ha Giang tour. The legend of Hoang Su Phi is always so peaceful and poetic. Come to Hoang Su Phi Ha Giang to once be immersed in the majesty of the Northeast mountains, admire the terraced fields of ripe rice and enjoy extremely special ethnic specialties! 

Hong Anh 

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Update day : 19/03/2023