GAZING THE RICE TERRACE FIELD IN UNDATED SEASON

The great cool climate and fresh air of Sapa (Lao Cai) attracts a lot of tourists to come to this high mountain area. In the summer, it is undated season in Sapa. People take water to fill in the rice terrace field to prepare for the new farming season.
If you have an opportunity to visit here in these days, standing at the high peak, you can gaze the picture of beautiful undated season of the rice terrace field. What a fantastic and awesome scenery is!
Sapa mountainous area was explored by French in the early years, for nearly one century. Then, they carried out to build a lot of resorts, villas and hotels which are very close to the nature, and maintain the diversity of cultural country. The climate of this area is very cool in the summer and cold in the winter. Recently, snow has been falling at the end of year. Especially, there are four seasons in one day. It it presented clearly in the morning, afternoon and evening parallel with the weather of four seasons of the whole country: spring, summer, autumn and winter. The highlight point to attract great number of tourists every year is rough mountainous terrain combining with valley, lake and stream. These items make tourist so interested at the first time when they come to Sapa.
 

 
Standing out in this beautiful picture of Sapa are rice terrace fields which start from the valley to the peak of hill tribes across the blue sky.  When the first rain falls down, the dry terrace fields seem to live again. Local people often take the water from the flume, pump water into the field and lead the buffalo to plough to start a new farming planting. That moment also starts tourism service for gazing the rice terrace fields, attract tourists from all the world to gather here.
Sapa terrace field is voted by Travel and Leisure magazine (American) as one of seven breathtaking terrace fields in Asia and in the world. The local people take advantage of the mountainous land to grow rice. They exploit and divide the hill into a lot of stairs, make it like a line to be a field. Then, from generation to generation, hill land becomes higher terrace field.
The rich household has more fields. Some households own hundreds of terraces field and cover all the hill tribe. These popular fields become the unique tourism products, attract a lot of tourists and become one of the leading attractions in Sapa.
 

 

Getting out of various ranges of house in town, terrace field appears with a variety of water stairs field under the sunshine. In the undated season, terrace field becomes more interesting and lively.
Rice seeding leaves are covering all the area where they pump the water. The field has been pumped late is in the harvest of planting. Buffalo, the plough and farmer are working in the field with a hardworking spirit. From afar, terrace field looks like a huge painting picture. Farer from the town, the rice terrace field is higher and there are more fields.
There are some parts, terrace field cover everywhere, it looks so fantastic and amazing!
Foreign tourists often choose the package tour to walk from the town to the village.
The road is the mountainous terrain so we have to follow the local people guide or go across the terrace fields. They are young and simple girls, speak English very well, they talk with tourists all the way and introduce to them about the life, the culture of ethnics in Sapa area.
You should spend two or three days to gaze the beauty of terrace fields. Starting from Lao Cai city, and following the border road to Bat Xa and coming to Y Ty, you will go down to Muong Hum and turn back to Sapa.
The journey passes numerous amazing and adventuring terrace fields with the distance is 200 km. If you take the tour at the weekend, you can join Y Ty market in Saturday and Muong Hum in Sunday. And it is more perfect if you come to Y Ty in cloudy day, Y Ty locates in the highest mountain, cloud is surrounding.
Some far mountains near the sky appear are among cloud as the angel islands. To gaze all the beauty of the nature, the best transportation is motorbike and rental car. This transportation is not available much here so it is always full of people and good.
In the undated season, photographers and international tourists from all over the world come to Sapa a lot. They come to everywhere to take photo. Then, they come back to Sapa, at the time when the rice is turning green. Terrace fields become yellow in the end of September until end of October. Once, it attracts tourists to come before it turns to winter with white snow in the end year. That is the gravity of terrace field. 
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