The fairy scene of the terraced fields in Hoang Su Phi is a worthy gift for tourists who overcome a long road full of obstacles. The best time to visit Hoang Su Phi is in Summer, the time of the rice crop. In May (the beginning of the rainy season) peasant start their crop, they plow and flood terrace fields with their irrigation systems. During this period their fields look like pieces of curved mirrors. Later rice grows up, during this time their fields have various green colors with different tones. Then September and October is the most beautiful time for photographers. Rice terrace fields during harvest season look like a vivid picture, with different colors …
Unlike Mu Cang Chai or Y Ty, the terraces in Hoang Su Phi (Ha Giang provinces) are steeper and more tottery. This makes the scene even more spectacular.
In the harvesting season, Hoang Su Phi is yellow but in the rainy season, it is a mixture of young green of rice and sparkling light of water on hundreds of stairs stretching from the peak to the foothills.
The terraced fields run from mountain to mountain.
It is believed that the Hoang Su Phi terraced rice fields have been cultivated for 300 years when the first people of the ethnic groups tried to turn rocky fields into fertile land. 
Today, these rice fields are located in around 6 communes, at an altitude of 1,000m above sea level.
Hoang Su Phi terraced rice fields cover 760ha of the total of 3,000ha of fields in six communes: Ban Luoc, San Sa Ho, Ban Phung, Ho Thau, Nam Ty and Thong Nguyen.
Pha Le
