With cool weather throughout the year, mountains and hills covered with green grasslands, Moc Chau plateau has long been known as Da Lat of the Northwest and the best destination in Vietnam for backpacking tourists.
Where is Moc Chau?
Moc Chau plateau is 200 km north-west of Hanoi along Highway 6. Moc Chau Highland, Son La is located at an altitude of 1050m above sea level. Moc Chau is a large plateau stretching about 80km long, 25km wide with 1600 ha of grasslands. It can be said that Moc Chau is the most concentrated tourism resources of Son La in particular and the Northwest in general. Climate is a great tourism resource of Vietnam package Tours in Moc Chau. In the middle of the plateau, Moc Chau is a sub-tropical climate with cool summers with an average temperature of 20ºC and dry winters.
The best time for visiting Moc Chau
Choosing the right time to visit Moc Chau is very important because you will be able to discover all the beauty and nature of Moc Chau.
The beauty of each season is different, so it is better to pay attention to the most suitable time for a perfect travel.
January and February, the peach blossoms and plum blossoms season: In Moc Chau, plums are planted in fields, sometimes covered with a village, so when plum flowers blossom, no flowers are more beautiful.
To see the plum blossom, you should go to Moc Chau at the end of the year and the new year. In the villages of Long Luong, Thong Cuong, Pa Phach, Na Ka valley, Ban Ang is the place where you can admire the most flowers, and you have to go deep into the village to have the nice photos.
October – December, the season of white canola flowers, wild sunflowers bloom: From October to December the wild sunflowers, canola flowers begin to blossom, covering hills. The white canola flowers hills stretch as far as the endless rug. The villages in Moc Chau are also covered by a pure white of the flowers.
The most beautiful places are the rear of the pine forest in Ang village, Pa Phach, Ngu Dong On village, Coc village.
The clouds drifting at the foot of the people on the top of the mountain, combined with the golden sunshine makes the Plateau Moc Chau (Son La) greatly beautiful at the end of the year.
April – August, ripe plum season and cool climate: Spring ends, hot summer days will come, Moc Chau will be a great destination for you to escape the heat of the summer in the plain.
Moc Chau plateau is cool all year, at this time in Moc Chau there are not many flowers, but there are plums, peaches for you to pick.
If you come to Moc Chau on this occasion, you can visit and explore the cow farm, the agricultural resort. This is also the time when the Dai Yem Waterfall is most beautiful, as the fairyland.
March – April, the season of Bauhinia variegata flowers (Ban flowers): March is the end of flowers blooming season. If you want to see flowers you have to go up to the area near the city of Son La.
Can not use the word “beautiful” to talk about Moc Chau plateau, which may have to be replaced by the word “great”! A peaceful land, green tea hills, white silk ribbons woven from the canola flowers, sweet corn wine and white plum blossoming flowers in the forest …, all these images are imprinted in the memory of any visitor of Tour in Vietnam who has ever been here. It is not exaggerative when Moc Chau is considered as a North West girl, friendly, hospitable, pure and rustic with a sincere heart.
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