Pho Cao is known as a valley located in the highlands of Northwest Vietnam, located in Dong Van district, Ha Giang province. Ha Giang Fox Street is famous for its simple, pristine beauty that has endured over the years. Possessing a unique architecture of houses with yellow or red walls stained with time. Pho Cao captivates people's hearts with its colorful and magical picture of changing seasons: the pink of peaches and plums, the colors of spring, the brilliant yellow of terraced fields in the ripe rice season blending with the flower season. Ha Giang circuit triangle. You feel lost in a charming landscape painting, beautiful and poetic like in a fairyland.
Pho Cao is also a place of integration for the community of four main ethnic groups: Mong, Dao, Pu Peo and Han. Life here is simple, peaceful, people are happy, warm, and hospitable, welcoming visitors from far away. In particular, you will not be able to miss the bustling integration with the unique Fox Street early market. All blend together to create a picture of Pho Cao that is both colorful and emotional and attracts a large number of tourists.
As a land in the Northwest region, Pho Cao brings with it the beauty of four typical seasons. If you choose to come to Pho Cao Ha Giang around September and October, you will admire the captivating beauty of vast ripe rice fields spreading among the Northwest mountains and forests.
From October to the end of November, Pho Cao seems to wear a new shirt woven with the attractive purple, white, and pink colors of buckwheat flower fields.
Especially around November and December, when buckwheat flowers begin to end their season, each branch of mustard flowers grows together, bright yellow and blooming. The mustard flower season here lasts until January of the following year. The beauty of blue sky, white clouds, gods, and colors promises to bring you an unforgettable feeling during your trip in Ha Giang.
The first impression that attracts the visitor's lens is the image of school buildings with unique architecture only found on Pho Cao. Located in the middle of the valley of green corn fields and the immense fragrance of buckwheat flower fields are houses with yellow walls and yin-yang tile roofs connected together in quiet, ancient rows. The house is built in a rectangular structure, with only one wide main door in the middle of the house and no windows, instead there is an archway high above. However, these simple houses bring a cool and airy feeling in the summer and warmth in the winter, just like the harmony and warmth of the people here.
Pho Cao Ha Giang market, also known as Dong Van market, is a picture that vividly recreates the cultural life of highland people. Pho Cao market only opens in the early morning when the mist still creeps into the foliage and trees, so to be able to participate in the experience, you should try to wake up early. The market is held on 6 days/session. This is where people gather to exchange goods.
The products sold at the market are products made from the diligence and care of the hands of the people here. Coming to the market here, don't forget to try the specialty dishes: fragrant five-color sticky rice, sliced yellow beef cakes, kitchen-smelling sausages that radiate a mouth-watering aroma, hot man tau cakes that still have the fragrant aroma of rice yeast. noodles,.... And most especially, we cannot forget Ha Giang corn wine, both warm and full of love for the highlanders. This is also a place of multi-national cultural interference from 17 ethnic groups. Coming here, you will be integrated into a multicultural and multi-ethnic community. The common features that will forever remain in the hearts of visitors are the simple hearts, honesty and warm humanity of the highland people.
Coming to Pho Cao Ha Giang, don't forget to miss the visit to the Tam Giac Mach field hidden among the fragrant mountains and forests. Buckwheat flowers swaying in the wind carry the fragrance of the Northern air mixed with the green of the mountains and forests, all mixed together to create a charming, beautiful and dreamy feng shui picture. And if you come here during the Lunar New Year when mist covers the mountains and forests, you can also see the fields of yellow mustard flowers and white plum blossoms all over the hillsides and all the houses in the valley. This little one.
Currently, all the facilities of the village in Pho Cao have been upgraded, people's lives are stable, but that does not mean that the unique cultural identity of the people has become more blurred. Pho Cao is a land where the wildness of the landscape, the richness of the culture and the warmth of human love are still more prominent than ever. They still live and work diligently: raising pigs, cows, chickens, farming, hunting... Although life is hard and difficult, there is laughter, joy, enthusiasm, hospitality, and sincerity. Rather, in the warm hearts of the people of the rocky region, they always leave unforgettable impressions for visitors.
Ha Giang
From September to December.
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