Peaceful beauty in "Khuoi My"

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

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CGTĐT - Khuoi My village, Phuong Do commune, is located 12 km from the center of Ha Giang city, on the slopes of Tay Con Linh mountain range. Located at an altitude of over 1,000 m above sea level, Khuoi My village is blessed by nature with many beautiful landscapes and a cool, fresh climate all year round. In recent years, with the available advantages of the locality, the attention of the city's Party Committee and authorities, investment in concrete roads, people have known how to renovate their houses, plant many seasonal flowers to create a natural landscape, attracting a large number of domestic and foreign tourists to visit, relax and admire the beautiful scenery here, especially every time the rice is ripe.

Beautiful scenery in Khuoi My, Phuong Do commune, Ha Giang city.

Coming to Khuoi My in early October, with the cool autumn weather, visitors will be able to welcome the sunrise on the golden terraced fields every morning, watch the white clouds floating on the hillsides, or on the rustic, simple stilt houses hundreds of years old.

Dawn on Khuoi My.

In Khuoi My, visitors will feel comfortable and feel the unique majestic beauty of the mountains and forests here. Looking at the brilliant yellow terraced fields stretching between the dark green mountains and forests like a beautiful natural painting brings us a feeling of true peace. 

Beautiful painting of Khuoi My seen from above.

Tourists come to take photos with rice in Khuoi My.

Rice in Khuoi My is treasured by local people as a "pearl" given by heaven and earth. Up to now, the golden terraced rice fields are also a typical cultural and tourist product of Khuoi My people in particular and all over the highlands of Ha Giang in general, considered a spiritual and cultural value, a beautiful symbol of Ha Giang, living on rocks but still growing, developing, blooming, and bearing sweet, fragrant, and sticky fruits. 

Thanks to hard work, diligence and the favor of nature, the people here have created terraced fields of many shapes and colors. The heart-shaped and wavy fields lying among the simple, rustic stilt houses covered with moss have given Khuoi My its own unique, poetic and lyrical beauty.

Golden ripe rice fields in Khuoi My.

The people living here are mainly Dao ethnic group. To preserve, maintain and develop rice cultivation, besides growing and processing tea, the people here have taken advantage of the hills near the water source to change the structure of seasonal crops such as rice, watermelon, corn, etc. to increase production, increase income associated with tourism development, services to improve life and material.

According to tourist Ngoc Mai from Ha Giang city, she said: I am very proud because right near the center of Ha Giang city, there is a beautiful, poetic village; the road to get here is also convenient. Coming here, my family and I can enjoy the beautiful scenery, the children can immerse themselves in nature, the people are very friendly and sociable, especially I can enjoy delicious, traditional dishes cooked by the locals here such as five-color sticky rice, silver carp, hill chicken, mountain goat, black pig... It feels very interesting and comfortable after stressful working days.

According to Mr. Ban Van Noi, a resident of Khuoi My village, when coming to Khuoi My, visitors not only feel the beauty of the ripe rice season, but the villagers also grow many other beautiful flowers for tourists to visit and take pictures, such as wild sunflower season, buckwheat flower season, peach blossom, pear blossom, plum blossom, etc. To build a tourism brand for the village, the villagers have united together to grow, care for, and raise the village's agricultural products with clean, beautiful, and quality standards to attract more and more tourists to come here. 

With its available advantages, Khuoi My has been building and developing to become an attractive tourist destination, attracting visitors to visit, experience and relax. 

Lan Phuong