Tua Chua – The mountain girl hidden in the clouds of the Northwest

Perhaps on the strip of land that coincides with Dien Bien, no other land contains the unique features bearing the typical beauty of the Northwest like Tua Chua. This place is not only known for many famous specialties such as Mong Pe wine, snow shan tea, black chicken ... but also an attractive destination for tourists who love to experience.

Ta Phin ancient stone beach.

Tua Chua has 3/4 of the area is cat ears rocky mountains, limestone mountains, few rivers and streams make people think of harshness and barrenness. However, this land is favored by nature with a fresh and cool climate all year round, pristine and majestic natural landscape. Tua Chua is also a revolutionary place with precious historical and cultural values; This is the residence area of the friendly and hospitable community of 7 ethnic groups, which still preserves unique cultural features such as the cultural space of markets, folk festivals, folk songs and dances...

At each time, each season of the year Tua Chua has its own beauty, but the most beautiful is still from September of the previous year to May of the following year. This is the time when visitors can enjoy the cool and fresh air; Enjoy watching the terraced fields in the ripe rice crop with many beautiful colors. Going to Tua Chua in the spring, visitors will be immersed in the festivals of the Mong ethnic group, watching and freely taking pictures with peach, plum, and ban flowers; admire and experience the pleasure of hunting clouds to take beautiful, unique and strange pictures.

Each season of the year Tua Chua has its own beauty.

From Tua Chua town, going south in the direction of Muong Bang - Xa Nhe, visitors come to the national scenic spot: Xa Nhe cave complex and Kho Chua La cave (Xa Nhe commune). The system of stalactites and stalagmites is beautiful, the cave is wide, and the cave is high, making visitors feel like entering a mysterious fairyland.

About 1km from Xa Nhe - Kho Chua La cave complex is Xa Nhe market, which meets on the day of the Cat and the Chicken day of the month. The fair is not only a place to buy, sell and exchange typical agricultural products, but also a cultural space, a place for exchanges and meetings of ethnic minorities. Today, visitors to Tua Chua expect to visit the fair at least once to immerse themselves in the bustling life, rich in cultural colors of the ethnic minorities here.

The ancient Shan Tuyet tea trees are hundreds of years old.

Continuing to go south, on the road Muong Dun - Tua Thang, visitors will enjoy the brilliant beauty of the ancient Ban flowers forest; The folds of houses on stilts hidden in the mist of the Thai people in the resettlement areas of Ta Huoi Trang on the banks of the Da River. Traveling to experience the Da river lake bed will leave many unforgettable impressions. If you have time to stay, you can choose the form of homestay in villages and hamlets right by the river such as Huoi Trang village (Tua Thang commune) or Huoi Long village (Huoi So commune) with beautiful views overlooking the lake. Here, visitors will enjoy the typical cuisine of the highlands with the processing and spices rich in Northwest flavor. If you really want to find a feeling of being close to nature, you can choose to stay on islands or peninsulas in the lake bed, make fires together, camp... and welcome the dawn in the vast place of the river.

From Huoi So to Sin Chai - the last commune in the North of Tua Chua district, visitors will admire the ancient shan snow tea trees with hundreds of years old reaching out among thousands of mountains and clouds, drinking a cup of hot tea or corn wine by the charcoal stove in the cold of Sin Chai even in the middle of summer.

De De Hu terraced fields in the ripe rice season.

From Sin Chai, going back to provincial road 140 will come to Ta Sin Thang commune, where there is the oldest market in the Northwest region. Ta Sin Thang market still retains many unique features of the highland market with colorful ethnic costumes, agricultural products and traditional brocade products, dishes with unforgettable flavors… Mong Pe wine, goat meat and Shan Tuyet tea are also famous specialties in Ta Sin Thang.

10km south of Ta Sin Thang, along provincial road 140 is Ta Phin commune, which is famous for its cat ears rock plateau as far as the eye can see. Located in Ta Phin stone plateau, Vang Long citadel was built nearly 3 centuries ago, is an architectural and artistic work of great historical and cultural value. The citadel was built in 9 years, the building material is mainly stone with the method of shoring, hewn completely by hand, using sophisticated stone grafting techniques. Golden Cage Citadel is 2m high on average, 1m wide on the surface. In addition, Ta Phin commune also has Chieu Tinh field - one of the largest and most fertile fields of Tua Chua district. Chieu Tinh terraced fields have a simple, rustic beauty but no less charming, especially in the ripe rice season or the floating season.

Fair market with colorful costumes of ethnic people.

From Ta Phin, along the inter-commune road, visitors will come to Lao Xa Phinh and Trung Thu communes. Currently, these are the only two communes that do not have asphalt roads to the center, but the beautiful and poetic natural scenery and the friendliness and hospitality of the local people make visitors fall in love. In particular, the ancient pine forest in Trung Thu commune is very suitable for exploring, experiencing and relaxing.

Continuing along the inter-commune road, visitors to Sinh Phinh commune are famous for Ta La Cao field and De De Hu field as endless stairs connecting the earth and the sky. Coming to Sinh Phinh on the occasion of the Lunar New Year, visitors can immerse themselves in the traditional spring festival of the Mong people. The festival is a place for people to have fun and exchange after a year of productive work and also a meeting place for H'Mong boys and girls.

Tua Chua tourist map.

Tua Chua can be likened to a beautiful, shy, and timid mountain girl, hidden among the thousands of clouds in the Northwest. The beauty and attraction of nature, culture and people here always have a special attraction for tourists.

Source: Travel Magazine