In recent years, the agricultural eco-tourism area – Bac Ha flower valley has become one of the highlights for the “white plateau” land of Lao Cai. Charming, simple, but very classy.
Entering the flower valley, we enjoy the natural beauty of heaven and earth. The wind from the other side of the mountain blew against my skin. It was like a cold towel from a certain restaurant applied to the face, eyelids, cheeks. The air has taken the coolness of rocks and water to drop into us.
Walking in the valley, we seem to be lost in an embroidered picture with many colors. The border around this picture is a rocky bank, a stream. Each roof on stilts, the umbrellas have created a tourist highlight. Heaven and earth benefits, human harmony. That, with that alone made up a colorful valley.
During the French colonial period this was the airport. Surrounding the airport is a stream. Look at the high, precarious mountains. The village elder recounts that in the opening battle campaign of the second stage of the Le Hong Phong campaign in 1950, the guerrilla team of Thai Giang Pho coordinated with the army to fight the enemy. We divided into three parts to attack the enemy: A part of San Sa Ho attacked the airport of Thai Giang Pho commune, and a part attacked the high mountain of Thai Giang Pho to block the enemy’s path from Bac Ha to Hoang Su Phi. The airport of Thai Giang Pho commune has been a strategic location connecting Bac Ha to Ha Giang and the airport is also the palace of Bac Ha district, which is the eastern flank of the town. On September 17, 1950, we captured the high mound on the enemy’s field airfield at Cai Giang Pho and the high mounds around the district capital. Bac Ha was liberated on September 20, 1950.
In the past, the flat field was the valley of rice cultivation. Surrounding the valley are terraced fields. Each field gently climbs to the tops of hills and mountains. The fields show off the color of tea.
In July 2015, the Tourism Investment Promotion Conference was held, the Lao Cai Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the City Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. Lao Cai has awarded the investment certificate and awarded the certificate of commitment to support development investment capital for the investment project to build agro-ecological tourism area – Bac Ha flower valley by Viet Nam one member limited company. Tu owns the project. Since then, the flower valley of Thai Giang Pho Bac Ha has put on a traditional and modern beauty on the highland district of Bac Ha.
Talking about the flower valley but only knowing about flowers, we have only felt half of it. The other half here is also a resort, a destination for community eco-tourism. In the middle of the flower field is a house on stilts – A place to stop for pedestrians to visit and enjoy.
In the flower valley, there are horizontal roads, shortcuts, vertical roads, roads running beside streams and streams, the dividing line between the dining area and the flower garden, and a longitudinal strip connecting the stream with the flower garden. There is an empty space on the road with rows of colorful green red purple yellow umbrellas. Each umbrella stands upside down like a flower rig that opens and spreads to create space above eye level. The fork in the road is the lavender garden. Purple flowers cluster around the stone pillars. Tourists who come here without taking pictures of this scene have not come to Thai Giang Pho. Groups of people quietly entered the garden, mixed in the purple color of flowers. Each scene, each segment, is built on the side of a large stone block.
When night falls, the flower valley lights up with angled roof-shaped chandeliers. Each stroke, horizontal balance, creates a pointed roof. A beam is lit up at an angle like we are lost in the roof of the gong culture in the Central Highlands or the corner of a corner of Bac Ha cultural market. Blue shine, beam up the stone bench. Next to the stilt house, the electric light on the stilts side. The light stream from the lantern, the octagonal lamp creates a cozy space. Here, there is also a highlight like Hoi An ancient town or a corner of Viet Trung street. Everything is simple, pure, pure. The arrangement of lanterns, flowers, and octagons pours down a stream of rosy light the color of wood on stilts, exuding Asian culture.
Our group gathered at the dining table. Traditional Chinese medicine hot pot stew is offered. The smell of dong quai, A-Ti – Soc emanates from a crockery or two porcelain plates. A-Ti-so flowers are arranged in rolls and sliced on a plate. The celebratory cup is all grape wine that stimulates the olfactory nerve. The scent of medicine, the scent of flowers wrapped in tangerines. Surrounded by clean air, admire flowers, enjoy delicious hot pot dishes or stews with the flavor of traditional Chinese medicine. All awaken the sense of smell. The aroma of dong quai, ginseng, A-Tiso and lotus seeds wafted over the wooden table. A breeze inadvertently brought the scent of flowers from outside the tea room to the gable of the stilt house. That’s the pleasant feeling, that’s how we hang our clothes around. All brought peace.
The flower valley of Thai Giang Pho commune is the bright edge of colorful flowers. It is like the color of the flags adorning the pavement or the green stance of the mountains shaping the space. The valley is as beautiful as a silence, but inside we still see the light and movement. Get out of the noisy life here. The silence here is different from the stillness of the fishing rod, the bamboo alley, which is the peace in the highland sky with thousands of wind blowing clouds. If Bac Ha is a house with a wall, Thai Giang Pho is like a window looking out from the veranda and the summer. That window frame has all kinds of flowers, including the color of the sky and the color of stone. The whole clean, pure space has watered people with the color of sunshine, color of wind, and smell of flowers. Here and there, there was the sound of fish thrashing, the murmur of the creek. The whole quiet space surrounding people chases away the frustrating heat after a week of work.
Buds and flowers have breathed the air, drinking pure blue water to create beauty is also different from where? Perhaps the flowers did not help the caretaker to bring the color, taste and smell to weave on the embroidered picture, to make Cai Giang Pho more bright and brilliant.
Visitors walk in the valley of flowers with a mood full of excitement. Here, the serenity is not the bamboo lane, the rotating blue leaves, but the color of flowers, the scent of flowers and the great wind. The wind comes and goes, leaving us with a confused blur. The lavender purple color woven by the small road is as beautiful as a purple silk scarf. Separating between the resort, the place to eat and the place to grow flowers is the road. In the garden, thousands of orchids. Each species has a bright purple heart flower cluster, with a bunch of lotus flowers… here are the orchids of the Northwest mountains with self-made orchid varieties.
The beauty of the flower valley of Thai Giang Pho – Bac Ha district is the beauty of incense, flowers, and open roads. Going on road 153, visitors can enter the flower valley by two roads: the main branch along the concrete road, the end point of the bridge over the Na Co stream, the side branch down the road 153 for about 2 km, to Bac Ha restaurant. The two paths, like two hands facing each other, hold the flower valley in the palm of that hand.
Thai Giang Pho flowers bloom every season. Blooming throughout all four seasons are orchids. Each branch of orchid on the rocky mountain and the gate of heaven come here to meet with newly imported orchids. In addition to orchids, Viet Tu flower garden also grows street flowers such as hydrangeas, lily of the valley, auspicious flowers, evening primrose, jade brooch, etc. Besides the charming wild orchids with bold wild colors are the flowers. colorful street flower pots. Two types of colors combine to create an attractive look. The purple heart color of Lavender, The bright yellow-green color of orchids, the immature color of flowers…
The beauty of the valley is pure beauty, elegant but not pretentious. It resembles the beauty of a young ethnic girl in the Northwest region who always wears a brocade bag with colorful patterns. That girl came out from the highland mountains with clouds floating in smoke, shining with the sunlight of the plateau, radiant laughter with the sound of the mountains echoing. All have built up the flower identity, raised the typical community eco-tourism, and in the near future will build a brand for Bac Ha, creating confidence for Bac Ha tourism.
Source: Collected internet.