Children In Mu Cang Chai Rice Terrace Fields Editorial Photo

Mu Cang Chai is a district of Yen Bai province, Viet Nam. The rice terrace fields in La Pan Tan, Che Cu Nha and Ze Xu Phinh have been recognized as national landscapes by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. There have been Yen Bai festival Mu Cang Chai rice terrace fields to attract more attention of domestic and international tourists about Mu Cang Chai. This region of northwest Vietnam is poor and relatively undeveloped but very rich in natural beauty. Mu Cang Chai Rice Terrace Fields stretching across the mountainside, layer by layer reaching up as endless, with about 2,200 hectares of rice terraces, of which 500 hectares of terraces of 3 communes such as La Pan Tan, Che Cu Nha and Ze Xu Phinh. Mu Cang Chai Rice Terrace has been recognized as one of the unique landscapes of Vietnam, it is at the most and ranked national landscape in 2007. Due to the landscape`s steeply sloping topography, the terraced fields are quite narrow; the difference between terraces to terraces is about 1m to 1.5m, demanding to keep the water sources on the land and ground for growing rice on the slope of mountain...