Coming to Mau Son, visitors can not only see the floating clouds wrapping around the mountains but also the golden terraced fields during harvest time. Mau Son is one of the few places in Vietnam where snow and ice appear in winter, creating extremely impressive multi-colored paintings.
Mau Son is located in 3 communes: Cong Son, Mau Son, Cao Loc district and Mau Son, Loc Binh district, with a total area of 10,470 hectares. The highest area of the Mau Son mountain range is about 30 km east of Lang Son city center, less than 180 km from Hanoi capital, and close to the Vietnam-China border.
This is the highest mountainous region of Lang Son province and in the Northeast region of our country, with an average altitude of 800 - 1,000m above sea level, including a complex of about 80 large and small mountains. The highest peaks are Phia Po (Father Mountain) at 1,541m high, Phia Me (Mother Mountain) at 1,520m high.
Mau Son's climate is typical of the subtropical and temperate regions with an average annual temperature of 15.6 degrees Celsius with 2 distinct seasons. Summer is from April to October, the weather is cool, the average temperature is from 16 - 21 degrees Celsius. Winter is from November to March of the following year, the average temperature is from 7.2 - 13.2 degrees C, the coldest year is -5 degrees C, often covered in fog, with ice and snow on cold days. This is a famous tourist destination of Lang Son province, an ideal resort attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists each year.
Many people think that traveling to Mau Son must be in the summer to be beautiful. In addition to bathing in waterfalls, they can camp in primeval forests with fresh, cool air. But after going a few times, visitors will realize that there are four seasons of beauty here. If spring is the season of festivals, the season of pear, plum, and peach blossoms blooming, then autumn with its golden waves of spectacular terraced fields, primeval forests changing colors, and winter with its mountains. The village is hidden in the clouds.
Visitors to Mau Son in April - May every year will see people working the land and cultivating rice on terraced fields interspersed with hillsides and among anise forests. Around June, Mau Son becomes an ideal tourist destination to avoid the heat. In the photo, there is a 3 km traffic jam on the opening day of the Mau Son Tourism Festival taking place in June 2019. In addition to bathing in the waterfall, camping in the forests to enjoy the fresh air, visitors can admire hydrangeas, a typical flower on Mau Son that blooms every summer.
From July to August, the terraced fields are in harvest, creating an impressive picture of the golden season. The most beautiful cloud season in Mau Son is from December of the previous year to March of the following year. Because of this period, the temperature is extremely ideal for the accumulation of clouds.
Viewed from above, Mau Son appears with rolling mountains and hills, interspersed with narrow valleys. With a mother mountain peak of 1,520 m high, in winter, Mau Son is always submerged in clouds. Clouds wrap around the mountains. Clouds swoop down into the primeval forest, crawling into the leaves. Clouds move with the wind. Not only that, the clouds this season are very quiet, you can admire a beautiful scene created by thousands of clouds.
Mau Son is beautiful all year round, but spring can be said to make people ecstatic. At this time, the mountain takes on the shape of a beautiful princess changing into a colorful dress. The tender and passionate red peach blossoms are a bit passionate but even more seductive, making visitors who arrive in the spring surprised. Mau Son peach blossoms are single-petal peach blossoms, fragile and more special than peach blossoms anywhere else. They have strange vitality, clinging deep to cliffs and enduring the harshest climate, drinking wind and dew to grow. up, just waiting for spring to show off its sweet beauty amidst the vastness.
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