The Harvest of Grass

The harvest of grass in Tien Giang Province in the Southern Vietnam has attracted professional photographers with the serenity of the countryside. This photo above is captured by a flycam between August. 

The grass previously grows naturally in the Mekong Delta. It has the hard low stem. 8 - 10 mm tubular, lying horizontally in mud. 

In the harvest season in August, people use the sickle the root in each clump. Cut grass is divided into short and long types and tied into circular bundles of about 2-3 kg.

 

Na Hang Lake

 

 

 

If you stand on a hill near the lake Na Hang, you will capture a peaceful and scenery landscape like the photo above, 

 

The iconic beauty of Na Hang lake is the mountain Coc Vai Pha, that nested in the lake. Coc in this expression means a pile to tie a buffalo. Na Hang is also known as a natural ecological area with a unique beauty of nature. 

 

The photo above depicts a peaceful early morning on Na Hang Lake in Lam Binh and Na Hang Districts, about 110 km from the center of Tuyen Quang City. Na Hang is the confluence between the two rivers Gam and Nang. Around the lake are majestic mountains and a lonely boat sailing along two sides of the lake.  

 

Hoang Su Phi

 

 

September is time for you to visit Hoang Su Phi, Ha Giang Province, Vietnam. It is time to explore majestic mountains and perennial terrace fields.

 

Hoang Su Phi, that nestles in the west of Ha Giang, Northern Vietnam. Here is some tips to go there. Departing from Hanoi, you go in the direction of the airport of Noi Bai - Phuc Yen - Vinh Phuc and drive straight up to Tuyen Quang. From Hanoi to Tuyen Quang, you take the national highway. After five-hour travel, you stop for a lunch at Ham Yen, Tuyen Quang. It is recommended that the Crocodile Restaurant is your stop for a lunch. After a break, you keep on moving in the direction of Tan Quang and Bac Quang, 60km from Hoang Su Phi. 

From Tan Quang T-junction to Hoang Su Phi Town, it takes two hours and a half to go along many winding roads, one side is endless mountains, the other beautiful views of terrace fields. Some places, roads are bad, some places roads are good. However, it is well worth for it as you admire the two sides of roads.

 

 

 

Stay in Pu Luong to avoid the heat of the city

 If you visit Pu Luong, Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam, you would enjoy the cool climate, terrace-rice fields and peaceful villages which nestle in an isolate valleys. 

Pu Luong Nature Reserve is home to Thai and Muong ethnic minority communities. In Thai's language, Pu  Luong means the highest peak of the village. 

You take four hours from Hanoi to go here by car. Currently, homestay and motel are more popular here. The landscape and environment of the natural reserve contribute to the development of the ecosystem. Due to the ecosystem, the accommodation here does not include air-conditioners and television. 

Or you set up a camp on the top of mountains to rest overnight, have meals with your companies. When climbing, you should wear long clothes, hats, climbing shoes, drinking water and snacks.

Golden Rice Field in Tam Coc

 

Tam Coc is the best in the rice season of the year. It is time for you to visit during the ripe rice season which has attracted visitors with breath-taking and picturesque landscapes. You wonder when it is. During May and the mid of June, hundreds of tourists take boats, sailing along two sides of endless-expanding rice fields to admire small houses, caves, such as Ca Cave, Hai Cave, and Ba Cave. 

If you want to take impressive snapshots like above, you have to climb limestone mountains at 3a.m. and take around 4 hours to reach the top of them. 

The Mystery at the Bottom of Son Doong Cave

 Nearly 30 years ago, 300 caves that nest in Quang Binh Province were discovered, most of them are dry or underground caves. Up to now, there has been no survey on underground rivers and underground caves. The turning point is when a group of leading diving experts came to discover Son Doong, the largest cave. It is the British Cave Expedition team led by Howard Limbert who announced the 200km long cave in Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park. 

Vietnam is endowed with one of five most desirable tourist destinations in 2019. Sharing with the local media, Howard said the cave system here is still many, currently 25% only discovered. Each cave is separate on the surface but connected below.

Hon Yen

 

For many years, Hon Yen has been attracting many young travellers with its pristine beauty and carpet of coral reefs rising up during low tide. The small islet is an interesting islet for professional photographers to make their impressive collections. It is around 15kilometers to the North of Tuy Hoa, the capital of Phu Yen. It is home to thousands of canaries, explaining its name.

Hon Yen nestles in Phu Yen Province, a poverty-hit coastal region with the population of around 860,000 inhabitants. Early in the morning, most of local residents head out to sea and catch seafood. Their boat is a means of livelihood and sea brings them a life. 

If you visit Hon Yen in every June, you witness fishermen who migrate Phu Yen from across the country sail to sea for a busiest anchovy harvesting season. 

Ba Vi National Park

 

Ba Vi National Park offers rich and diverse fauna and flora suitable and to relax or explore for all ages. 

If you like trekking, you take two or four hours to follow trails dense primeval forest, or high bamboo forest. The easiest route to go is to start at Cot 600 and down to Cot 300, which lasts more than 2 hours. In this way, you learn more about ecology. Immersed in the quiet space of national park finds French remnants, such as the colonel's mansion, the fallen church and political prison. Also, it is a window of opportunity for professional photographers to capture these timeless architectures, a creative source of inspiration.

Hue Imperial Citadel

 

The former imperial capital of Hue, which one witnesses the glories and collapse of Nguyen Dynasty (1802 - 1945), the last royal to rule the country, is famous as a food paradise.  

Hue's vibrant cuisine showcases the city's imperial legacy, while south in Hoi An's storied laneways, local dishes include fragrant cao lau noodle. Seafood stars nearby Danang, and the city alongside the Han River is becoming one of Vietnam's most exciting urban destinations.

Rice Field in Tam Coc

 

Ninh Binh became the center of attraction for the tourism this summer when Tourist Week 'Golden Color of Tam Coc' took place from 18 to 25 May.

This event created a festival for hundreds of photographic professionals coming across the country to capture the beautiful moments of Tam Coc's endless golden rice fields. The photographers stood on karst blocks to take photos from above. 

Tam Coc golden rice season starts from May to mid June offers many majestic scenery around Tam Coc. From Van Lam boat station, you admire small houses dotted along the river and caves such as Ca Cave, Hai Cave, and Ba Cave. 

If you want to take satisfactory photos, you have to climb on limestone mountains at 3 a.m. and take three hours to reach to the top. 

 

 

Lotus Blooms in Ninh Binh Province

Arriving in Ninh Binh Province, you should not miss pink lotus ponds blooming at the foot of Ngoa Long Mountain. June is the most beautiful time to visit this place when Ninh Binh is in lotus bloom season and lotus fade after a week.

If you get up early and don't want to waste your time going to the lotus lake and spend money for entrance fee, stay at homestay in Mua Cave.

Addition to taking photos of lotus ponds, you climb Ngoa Long Mountain to admire panoramic rice fields, rocky mountains and lotus lake from above as well.

The path to Ngoa Long Mountain is winding and there is no food and drink selling along the way. Thus, you  should have with you mineral water, umbrella, hat, sports shoes to easily move through hundreds of stone steps.

Flamboyant shows off its redness on River Huong

If coming to Hue in this season, you see girls in white dress taking photos of souvenir at close of school year under the shade of flamboyant trees. In Hue, people grow around 1,000 flamboyant trees, but the most impressive one is in Truong Tien Bridge. This ancient flamboyant tree is considered part of the ancient capital. In the blooming season, every day, here is bustled with tourists who take photos or selfies.

The photo above describes two girls posing for female students on Huong River (Perfume River).

Ba Ba Lake

When you arrive at Ba Ba Lake, you have three options to explore Ba Ba Lake. Ba Ba Lake nestles in vast limestone mountain range with numerous crags and crevasses that bring to you an ideal environment for the variety of marine life. You will learn a hundred species of freshwater fish living in the lakes.

The option depends on your mood or convenience, the lake and its environment can be discovered with a boat ride, casual walk or a long trek in off-beaten path in beautiful nature.

A boat ride starting early in the morning opens up the possibilities of experiencing the mystical beauty of the lake, with the early rays of the sun piercing through the fog that still lingers over a calm, still lake.

Great stops on the boat ride through picturesque scenery include the Dau Dang Waterfall, Tien Pond (Fairy Pond), An Ma Shrine and Ba Goa Island (Widow Island).

Tra Vinh Province

Tra Vinh Province has not had its name on Vietnam's tourism map, but if you wanted to enjoy the peaceful and hospitality land with romantic city of Tra Vinh, hiding itself among the cool, ancient forest, making a difference that walking at noon in a rare urban, you don't fear the scotching sunshine.

Ba Om Pond is a famous scenic spot of Tra Vinh, which is considered as 'a green lung' that nature has bestowed this province, bringing the people the pride.

An article describes the strict observation of the traffic rule of the people. You hardly see riders pass the red light. Riders stop at the red light under hard rain.

Tra Vinh cuisine is a combination of three culinary cultures of Kinh, Kmer and Chinese.

Plateau Lam Vien, Dalat

At the end of the year, usually in November, rose grass grows in Dalat and throughout plateau Lam Vien. It is a compelling attraction for tourists to come here to admire the beauty of nature and take many photos as possible. 

Rose grass is a common herbage that grows throughout the hills of plateau Lam Vien. After the raining season, old grass withers away, and young ones begin to sprout from the ground. 

Pink grass does not grow densely but creates a feeling of the coverage of grass in a pasture. Grass grows less high than the height of an ankle. Many people walk barefoot on the grass, have a feeling of softness of grass as the velvet.  

Rose grass is not beautiful thanks to the rose but the white. At dawn, thick dew falling on grass makes a snow-white-color. Because of this, professional photographers have hunted for grass at this time. 

Homestay in A Luoi Village

It is wonderful that in the scorching summer sun, you soak in the stream, sleep in the middle of mountains and forests. Let's take a discovery tour with your family, with the package price of around USD18 per person on weekend.

From Hue City, a bus takes you and your family along Highway 49 to the west, seeing all greenery of nature. Just over an hour, you arrive at A No Village, which sits inside forests and mountains.

A No Village has become a community-based environment destination since December 2019. The Vietnam Community Tourism Association trains villager to run home-stay, improve cooking skills, and learn how to retain the simplicity of local people.

A little far away home-stays, A Nor Waterfall with tree white streams sits in the middle of cliffs, green forests. Here you learn about how to fish in a stream,  

Geopark Dac Nong

After five-year establishing and development, Dak Nong Geopark has just recorded a memorable milestone when it becomes Vietnam's third park to join the Unesco Global Geopark Network.

At 22h on 16 July, Dak Nong Province held an online ceremony to honor the name of Global Geopark in 2020 organized by Global Geopark Network through Gotomeeting software.

This event does not only build the advantage to promote Vietnam's image in general and Unesco Dak Nong Geopark in particular internationally, preserving the geological values, biodiversity and cultural diversity of 40 ethnic minority groups in the province.

Looking back at the preparation process to achieve the title of Dak Nong Global Geopark, it can be seen that this is a clear and deliberate direction from scratch.

Hanh Thong Tay Church

The photo features Hanh Thong Tay Church, built by My Le Phat An, the uncle of Queen Phuong Nam and inside the church exists tombs of Le and his wife.

Mr. Le donated the land and cost of construction to build this church in 1921. He was one of the four richest people in Cochinechina in that period.

In earlier time, the parish of Hanh Thong Tay was suburbs, parishioners sparsely lived and were very poor. Knowing that, Mr. Le decided to spend a large amount of money to build the new, more spacious church.

The church was built in three years by a French contractor. He chose the design of the Byzantine style, modeling after the Basilica of Vitale in Ravenna, Italy. Byzantine style is an architectural style with a dome-shaped design and using many glass window to get light.

Y Ty

Y Ty Highland, Lao Cao Province, appears as a poetic picture with cloudy fogs at peaks and green terrace fields. Located at an attitude of 2,000 meters above sea level is a tourist destination that attracts many tourists and photographers.

Away from hundred-kilometer roads from Hanoi, roads in Y Ty is quite zigzag. Like many places in the Northwest, Y Ty brings to you majestic, rustic beauty.

About 80km away from Lao Cai City, today, transportation infrastructure to Y Ty has been upgraded, facilitating the growth of tourism. However, that land seems to separate from the hustle and bustle of a city. During a day, ethnic minority people go to a field in the morning, gather their family for meals at coze evening. 

Hoc Mon District

People in Hoc Mon District do not know that there is a beautiful place around them. Nearly mid June, Manh posted a set of the photos of the scenery of Hoc Mon District (Ho Chi Minh City) under the golden sunrise on a group of tourists Facebook that he joined with the caption: "My hometown in Hoc Mon has a beautiful sunrise."

Manh's posts received positive feedback, so far it attracted more than 4900 likes, and many expressed interest to admire the beauty of the place 20km from Ho Chi Minh City.

Pursuing his hobby of photography for about 2 years, the 29-year-old office worker has  a special interest in the type of landscape, life, especially scenes under sunrise and sunset.

Manh said: "Dawn and sunset are two golden moments in photography. The moment and light at these two times are really beautiful, and hard to create from photo editing software."

"The beauty of heaven and earth under the sunrise and sunset gives me peace and relaxation in the hustle and bustle city. Try to get up early, watch the sunrise with a little morning dew, breath fresh air, you feel the peace, full of energy for a new day, and sometimes get unbelievably beautiful photos.