What do you usually do on holidays? Go for coffee, go out, and spend time with family and friends? If you are too familiar with these things, why not do something new and more meaningful? A trip to Ha Giang will be a good choice. Let's find out what you can eat and play at this blooming rock place in the following article!
Ha Giang is in the mountainous region of Northern Vietnam, with complex terrain, many high mountains, deep abysses, and steep slopes that gradually increase from the South to the North. Ranges of hills interspersed with wet rice fields run along both banks of rivers and streams. As a mountainous region that still retains its wild character, Ha Giang possesses many primeval forests and impressive stone plateaus. It can be said that Ha Giang is a gift that nature gives to Vietnam.
It was thought that with such complex and somewhat dangerous terrain, Ha Giang would have a thorny beauty. But on the contrary, Ha Giang has poetic beauty, with endless terraced fields, mustard flowers, peach blossoms, plum blossoms, and buckwheat flowers blooming to the sky.
Going to Ha Giang, besides the wild and majestic natural scenery, you can also experience the cultural beauty. Home to many ethnic minorities, you can experience the cuisine, explore festivals, and learn about the customs and habits of the people here.
Ha Giang's nature has the outstanding beauty of the highlands, with rolling mountains, dangerous passes, primeval forests, and even flowery hills in the sky. This is what has been attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists to visit here. If you are wondering when to go to Ha Giang, here are some typical activities for each season that you can refer to:
In spring, Ha Giang puts on a new, youthful, and vibrant shirt. Going to Ha Giang at this time, you will admire the brilliant hills of yellow mustard flowers, yellow peach blossoms, pure white apricots, and banyan flowers. All create a poetic and vibrant scene.
If you are already immersed in the beauty of Ha Giang, stop by Dong Van, Pho Bang, and Lo Lo Chai to fully enjoy this brilliant scene. In addition, spring is also the season of festivals. If you visit the above locations, don't forget to participate in the festivals of local people! You will take beautiful photos of the scenery and people here.
If you feel uncomfortable with the hot weather of the delta in the summer, pack your backpack and come to Ha Giang. Located in the high mountainous region of northern Vietnam, Ha Giang has an average altitude of 800 to 1,200 meters above sea level. Therefore, Ha Giang's climate in the summer is relatively mild. This will be a great place to avoid the heat when the cicadas start buzzing.
Different from the colorful scenery of spring, Ha Giang in summer is covered with a cool green color of trees, mountains, and forests. Experience boating on the Nho Que River to fully enjoy the majestic scenery when Ha Giang is in the summer. But besides that, you can still see the buckwheat flowers blooming out of season and the pure white flowers.
Another special highlight of nature here is Ha Giang during the flood season. The terraced fields seem to be filled with water, reflecting the sky and lining up to form a giant mirror. You can easily admire this scene when passing through Xa Phin.
Famous for its terraced fields stacked regularly and beautifully, Ha Giang attracts many tourists who come here in the fall to admire the shiny yellow color of ripe rice gilding the hills. Purple covers the hillside with buckwheat flowers, and the winding roads are filled with wild chrysanthemums. All create an artistic and captivating autumn picture.
If you are not someone who can handle heat or cold very well, this will be an extremely suitable time. Starting in September and October, Ha Giang's weather is quite mild, not too hot. This is also the right weather for a trip on the river or conquering mountain passes.
Located in a high position, Ha Giang's weather in winter is relatively harsh. But if you are a fan of winter and want to feel the cold of 0 degrees Celsius, don't miss Ha Giang in the snowy season.
When December first knocked on the door, the rapeseed hillsides were already in full bloom. The whole scene in Ha Giang also becomes more brilliant than ever, leaving many people captivated. After the buckwheat flower season is the season of canola flowers. White and yellow mustard fields turn this land into a paradise on earth. Some beautiful places to view Ha Giang mustard flowers are behind the old market in Dong Van town.
Amid such harsh weather, chrysanthemums still bloom throughout the rocky plateau, making many people melt when they admire them. This is the reason Ha Giang is called the place where rocks bloom. You can easily find this flower on the roads to Dong Van town, the road to Meo Vac, at the foot of Ma Pi Leng Pass, Khau Vai...
Home to ethnic minorities, Ha Giang attracts tourists because of its gentle people, unique ethnic customs and culture, and unique specialties. Here are some dishes you cannot miss when going to Ha Giang:
Originating from the Thai ethnic group, buffalo meat is used by many people as gifts for relatives and friends. Made from mountain buffalo meat combined with aromas, spices, and special processing methods, the flavor of this dish is very unique. This is a dish you cannot miss when going to Ha Giang.
Lam rice is a specialty dish of the Northwest region in general and Ha Giang in particular. The dish is made from fragrant sticky rice, put into a bamboo tube, sealed at both ends with banana leaves, and grilled on a charcoal stove. All the natural, rustic ingredients of the mountain town have been blended to create the typical flavor of this delicious Ha Giang dish.
Coming to Dong Van market and skipping the Thang Co dish of the H'Mong people is a big mistake for tourists touring Ha Giang. Thang Co dish is made with horse meat and organs. The spicy aroma of wine, along with the rich aroma of Thang Co, creates the typical flavor of this Ha Giang dish.
If you are passionate about the buckwheat flower, a characteristic of Ha Giang's nature, then you definitely cannot miss the cake made from this flower. Buckwheat Cake is made from the seeds of a dreamy purple flower. The cake has a light fragrance, sweet taste, is spongy, soft, and rich with the rustic flavor of the mountains and forests.
Few people think that moss can also be a dish. However, going to Ha Giang, there is a unique dish made 100% from green moss, Grilled Moss - a traditional dish of the Tay ethnic people in Vietnam. Moss is taken from the stream through careful selection of young and clean mosses. Eating this dish is delicious, especially extremely nutritious, and good for health. It helps circulate blood, detoxify, and cool the body.
Ha Giang corn wine is known as the wine of the H'Mong ethnic group. Ha Giang leaf-fermented corn wine is considered a famous specialty of the northernmost region of the country. The wine is made from native corn grown by the people of the rocky plateau, mixed with traditional leaf yeast of the H'Mong people, and has a sweet taste and aroma of corn when drunk.
Ha Giang has long been a famous tourist destination for domestic and foreign tourists. However, this place is still favored by many people because of its majestic yet poetic natural scenery and the cultural beauty of the indigenous people. If you are wondering about a vacation destination, consider Ha Giang. If you are planning a vacation, take advantage of this place! If you need any information when going to Ha Giang, please contact HoaBinh Tourist through the hotline at 0939.311.911 - 0913.311.911 for support, quotes, and quick tour booking.
