The northwest mountainous area is famous for its extraordinary and poetic beauty, which changes with every season of the year. For Sa Pa lovers, Muong Hoa Valley is one of the most famous destinations for breathtaking scenery and is the largest farmland for rice growing in SaPa. It is far from Sapa town about 14 kilometers. Muong Hoa Valley is especially delightful. It is beautiful during both the new rice and harvest seasons thanks to the unique terraced fields.
Muong Hoa Valley is stunning in the ripe paddy season
It takes about 5 hours for visitors to walk downhill to the valley, have enjoyed taking a mid-mountain hike to treat themselves to this spectacular view. However, the best way to enjoy this unique specialty of the town in fog is to view it from above, choosing a mid-mountain spot to appreciate this magical green trail. Visiting Muong Hoa Valley, you will enjoy an easy walk downhill and along Muong Hoa River, through terraced fields passing some hamlets of the H’Mong people as Y Linh Ho, Lao Chai, Ta Van…, watching locals at work. The night you spend in Ta Van village. The unique village in Sapa area where Giay minority live will be an excellent and remarkable experience.
It takes about 5 hours for visitors to walk downhill to the valley, tracing the Muong Hoa River, through its terraced fields and passing hamlets of minority groups in Muong Hoa Valley. The valley, being part of Mt. Fansipan’s varied topography, is at the lowest altitude of about 1000 meters and is the home for H’mong, Zao, Zay minority groups, who have been working on the slopping land and living their own ways of life for hundreds of years.
The largest farmland of the Sapa district
From the highest elevation of the mountain range covered by endless forest, rainwater follows dozens of streams downhill to the floor forming the Muong Hoa, which follows across the small town and rice fields of the ethnic minority people of H’Mong, Dao and many others. They has been working on the slopping land and living their own ways for hundreds of years.
Muong Hoa River
Muong Hoa River peacefully flows through the valley, weaving itself along feet of mountains, nourishing the earth and the people. On rice season, the rice farmland valley serves up different shades of green and yellow, in ranges of ranges. Patches of colors lining side by side each other create amazing sensual patterns and a sublime and majestic landscape.
Every year on Dragon’s first lunar month, Ta Van commune, Sapa district, open the festival to welcome a new year for a bumper harvest. The Giay, H’mong, Dao ethnic… and a large number of tourists come here, which makes Muong Hoa valley becomes more vibrant and colorful. Previously, Ta Van Giay was called the Roong Pooc festival. Although it is the traditional festival of Ta Van ethnic, for many years it has spread to become the festival of the whole valley of Muong Hoa. Tourists from Sapa attend and the festival ambiance spreads throughout the valley of Muong Hoa.