Mother Nature really favors Bac Ha, even though it’s small and beautiful, the weather sub-regions are a few degrees different, creating different four-season landscapes, making people curious to explore each season. nooks and crannies of Bac Ha.
Spring is the season of fun, colorful and bold festivals of the ethnic groups living in Bac Ha: “Say Sán” festival of the H’Mong people, the fire dancing of the Dao people, “Xoè” dance and going down to the fields of the Tày people.
Spring in Bac Ha is also flower season after flower season. Rarely does any place in the Northern mountainous region have up to two seasons of plum blossoms like Bac Ha, creating the beautiful name White Plateau for this land:
– January: Cherry blossoms, abundant in the Na Cồ lake and areas around Bac Ha town. At the end of January, wild peach blossoms bloom brilliantly in Na Hối – Bản Phố, Bản Phố – Thải Giàng Phố palaces.
– Early February: Tam Hoa plum blossoms with many beautiful plum gardens in Tà Chải, Na Hối and Bản Phố.
– Late February to mid-March: Tả Văn plum blossoms and white pear flowers bloom on the Lùng Phình – Tả Van Chư – Lùng Cải – Simacai palaces.
– April: The climate is an advantage in Bac Ha, when other places have begun to enter hot and humid weather, in Bac Ha, extremely fragrant yellow mustard flowers and buckwheat flowers bloom on the small hills in Bản Phố và Lử Thần.
As one of the most beautiful seasons of the year in Bac Ha, the season of ripe fruits follows the flower season: Tam Hoa plums, Tả Van plums, pears, peaches… When summer comes, both residents and tourists look forward to it. About the famous Unsaddle Horse Race in Bac Ha, which brings together hundreds of great riders from the high mountains.
– May: Bac Ha begins to harvest plums. Bac Ha plums ripen evenly from mid-May to late June. Terraced fields as far away as Tả Củ Tỷ and Bản Liền are starting to enter the watering season.
– June: A very special month in Bac Ha because so many things come together during this time: in addition to the traditional horse racing festival, in June there is also the Tam Hoa plum harvest festival, the season of The locust tree in Bản Liền forest has crimson leaves, as red as the color of maple trees in Europe in autumn.
– July: When the rice starts to grow green, it is also the season when the beds of sandalwood flowers (a type of medicinal herb) in Lùng Phình and Tả Van Chư begin to turn purple in a memorable color in the mist of distant mountains. The sand petal flower season lasts until September.
Yellow color stretches across terraced fields in the Northwest. Bac Ha has different terrains and weather sub-regions, so the ripe rice season also lasts longer than many other places. In the fall, the wild fruit in the H’Mong language called “Chí Blìn” begins to gradually turn pink in the corners of the mountain forests, forming red ripe autumn patches in the corners of the forest along the Lùng Phình – Tả Van Chư, which can cause the “crazy” virtual life for Vietnamese tourists has reached its peak.
– August: When the H’Mong people in Hoàng Thu Phố have new rice to eat at the end of August, in every house of the Tày people in Tà Chải the sound of pestles pounding green rice every night is still resounding and lasts until the end of September to early October.
– September: This is the time when the rice is fully ripe in Bản Liền, while in Tả Củ Tỷ the rice is just at the stem.
– October: While everywhere there is golden ripe rice on terraced fields, tourists can experience the ripe rice season at Tả Củ Tỷ.
Winter is thought to be the least attractive season of the year in Bac Ha because of the generally cold weather of the high mountains in the North. However, there are days when it is cold and sweet, the sunshine in Bac Ha is as golden as pouring honey, the sky in Bac Ha is deep blue at a temperature of 4-5 degrees Celsius, and the persimmons on the trees slowly change color until they are ripe and warm.
– Throughout November and December: Seas of clouds float at Hoàng Thu Phố heaven gate, at Ngải Thầu peak in Na Hối commune, the most beautiful sunset and sunrise viewing spots in all four seasons in Bac Ha. This time is also the leisure season for the ethnic communities here, tourists will have the opportunity to experience many fun activities such as playing soccer or spinning with Tay women in Bản Liền.
– December: Tet begins for the H’mong people – especially the H’mong people celebrate Tet all month. Every day of the month you will have the opportunity to participate in the pig slaughtering ceremony and hear about the ritual of the H’Mong people in Bac Ha.
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