Deep within the valleys cast by the waters of Asia's Pink River, a sequence of colourful mountain villages are encircled by fields of towering rice
Deep within the valleys cast by the waters of Asia’s Pink River, a sequence of colourful mountain villages are encircled by fields of towering rice terraces. The fields are agricultural feats of precision — rugged mountains blanketed with emerald stairways that, seemingly, ascend to the heavens above.
Mu Cang Chai, Vietnam.
Ratnakorn Piyasirisorost
However this isn’t Disneyland. This is not a vacation spot designed to draw guests, worldwide consideration or the Instagram set.
Centuries in the past, the ancestors of Northern Vietnam’s native hill tribes created this place of practicality and profound magnificence for probably the most fundamental of causes — to outlive.
Rice terraces cowl 2,200 hectares of land in Mu Cang Chai.
Frans Sellies
Rice thrives in water-logged situations, making it very best for the flooded Mekong Delta on the nation’s southern tip. To develop rice in vertical situations, hill tribes created a terraced system to regulate the downward move of water. Utilizing ingenuity, resourcefulness and sheer grunt work, fertile fields of sustenance and breathtaking magnificence have been born — and nonetheless flourish in the present day.
In whole, rice terraces cowl greater than 2,200 hectares of land in Mu Cang Chai, of which 500 have been designated as nationwide heritage websites by Vietnam’s Ministry of Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism in 2007.
The Vietnamese H’mong individuals have a tendency the rice terraces created by their…