The Countryside Painting Ta Pa Seen From Above

By the end of November, green and yellow fields appear like a painting in the early shining Ta Pa. This tourist destination attracts visitors all year round, especially the ripe rice season in August and November every year. The main roads which split the Ta Pa fields look like a long silk thread when viewed from above, running to the end of Soai Check Lake.

Ta Pa is in the best season when the rice fields are ripe. You take a leisurely drive in the early morning on the small road, through the fields to take photos or fly the drone, you will capture the beautiful scenery like the above photo.  

Ma Pi Leng

Ma Pi Leng Pass is about 20km long with the height of about 1,400m, located in the Dong Van Rocky Plateau and seen as a period legend. It has been hailed at the first Vietnamese hill pass. The high mountains and rocks create a unique system of canyons beside blue rivers that are creeping through. Floating clouds make the scenery more real or false. 

The Vietnam Heritage 2019 award winning photo

The Vietnam Heritage Photo Contest 2019 includes topics of nature, tangible and intangible culture, environment, tourism ...

The main message of Vietnam Heritage Photo Awards 2019 aims to continue to call for the attention of the domestic and foreign communities to discover and share the value of Vietnam's natural and cultural heritage. It includes searching for artworks - stories of heritage with images which propagate and introduce nature, history and culture on Vietnam Heritage, organizing exhibitions of the best works from the contests at the centres of tourism, museums, schools, serving tourist communities and young people.

After a period of launching, the Vietnam Heritage Photo Contest received 3075 photo works among the submission of over 5000 pieces, including single and set photos of 413 authors from 54 cities and provinces across Vietnam. 

Sapa in Cherry Blossom

In the cold weather at the end of year, cherry blossom creates a striking pink among the green of tea hill, mountains and upland forests.

Around December to January, cherry and apricot trees in O Long Tea Hill, near Sapa, blossom, signaling the coming of spring. Cherry trees are planted alternatively, along a path leading to tea hills. This is also the characteristic of Sapa compared to cherry seasons in other localities such as Dalat. The pink of cherry and apricot is a highlight on the green picture of mountains and forests.

O Long Tea Hill has been known for more than one year, thanks to photos of flowering seasons shared by photographers

Green "Queen" Flower Field

About 150,000 green "Queen" Flower fields in suburban gardens in a blooming season create a landscape like the European one. In the last days of a year, these fields become a "virtual living" place where thousands of visitors come to take selfies. Flowers usually bloom in green int the morning and turn purple in the afternoon. Thus, many confuse this flower with Lavander in Europe. It takes about three months from planting to blooming. Flowering remains for two months.

The owner of the garden has set up miniatures for visitors to take photos including a house set in the middle of a purple garden and a brown wooden house, reminiscent of English or French countrysides.  

Photo of family love

 

This is one of the family love photos at the Vietnam Women's Museum. It conveys private messages about happiness, love and family sharing. Making and covering sticky rice cakes on days prior to the Lunar Year is a memory that remains in any Vietnamese, though living in or out of the country. 

The photo captures vivid, idyllic moments of warm, everyday life, moments of reunion, clearly reflecting kindness. touching love of family members. 

Hue known for a poetic place

Hue is famous as a poetic area, however, so far visitors have come to enjoy the ancient capital, music, painting, architecture and gastronomy. Where is Hue's literature located in the system of tourist products?

This place still has the footprint of Vietnam's great poets. This place, a poetic museum, showcases a gallery of works and documents of poetry in Hue. Also, this is for poets to interact with readers, performing art installation, performing poems, and organize extra-curriculum lessons for students.

Nowadays, some companies have designed 5-day tours with all kind of things: visiting mausoleum, temples, gardens and lagoons. 

Isle Nhat Tu Son

There is a special place in Phu Yen Province, named "the yellow flowers on the green grass" where you can make a way through turquoise waves to walk from the mainland to the isle, experiencing the "ocean walking" path to isle Nhat Tu Son.

This interesting floating isle in the middle of the sea is a magnificent island of Phu Yen Province, providing the pristine experiences associated with relaxation. It has a special name Nhat Tu Son as bearing the appearance of the character "first" in Chinese. It looks like handwriting drawn by nature in the middle of the blue sea.

There are 2 ways to experience the island: going around the island or to the top of it. If travelling around, you take about one hour to explore, or climb to its top takes about 45 minutes to walk all four main directions of the isle, admiring the beauty of thousands of lobster cages and fishing village.

In addition to experiencing the walking path through the sea, you also explore the island by canoe, visit the Island's Zoo and Botanical Garden, learn about the people's livelihood activities through the profession of raking and farming lobsters, prying live oysters at low tide.

Houses in clouds

 

If you visit Y Ty, a highland commune in Lao Cai Province, between September and April, especially in the early morning or late evening, Y Ty allows you touch and walk in the cloud. In these days, the temperatures drop to below 5 degrees of Celcius as clouds swoop down over valleys and villages. 

The area is known for its winding roads, tranquil valleys, magnificent terraces and small and simple stilt houses of the ethnic people. Choan Then is an old village founded over 300 years ago. Now it accommodates around 50 households of Ha Nhi ethnic minority group. 

You won't find any deluxe hotels, resorts in this region. Instead, you check out some homestays at the cost of $3, including electricity, tap water, and wifi. If homestays are run out, you may stay at the border station in Y Ty.