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Lai Chau Travel Guide: Beautiful Destinations and Delicious Cuisine
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Lai Chau Travel Guide: Beautiful Destinations and Delicious Cuisine
December 04, 2021
Coming to Lai Chau is to come to the majestic mountains of the country. Traveling here, you will have the opportunity to explore the famous peaks and passes of our country. There, you find yourself with a vast array of nature, majestic with mountain peaks and floating with white clouds.
O Quy Ho Pass
The pass is nearly 50km long. 2/3 of the way is located in Tam Duong district - Lai Chau. The remaining 1/3 is located in the Sa Pa - Lao Cai side. Passing the gate of Hoang Lien National Park about a few kilometers to reach the top of O Quy Ho Pass. This is also the boundary point between the two northern mountainous provinces of Lao Cai and Lai Chau. Right there is the Hoang Lien Son range, where there is Mount Phanxipang - windy roof of Indochina on the top 3,414m. O Quy Ho Pass has long been famous not only for its important traffic location but also for its most majestic beauty in the Northwest.
Sin Ho Plateau
About 60km from the center of Lai Chau city, Sin Ho plateau is at an altitude of over 1500m. Considered as the second Sa Pa of Northwestern region, the weather here is characterized as four seasons of the year. The annual average temperature is about 18 degrees Celsius. With a cool climate all year round, Sin Ho plateau is very suitable for medicinal plants such as: tam tam, cat apple, artichoke, tobacco bath tree ... and many varieties of temperate vegetables and fruits such as plum, peach, pear ... to develop.
Sin Ho Plateau is located in the middle of rocky mountains, immense primeval forests, in the middle of a sea of clouds, here with winding terraced fields, and villages lying on the slopes.
Visiting Sin Ho plateau, visitors will have the opportunity to see the majestic nature of the mountains and forests, discover unique customs in daily life of local people and especially enjoy the dishes with bold flavors of the mountains and forests such as buffalo meat wrapped in guise leaves, steamed goats, Ban Pig, spring fish, triumphal rice, sticky rice ...
Stretched along Highway 32, tea is 40-50 years old with a scale of nearly 2000 hectares, not far from the center of Tan Uyen town, Tan Uyen tea hill is now a favorite destination for many people. to Tan Uyen.
Here you will enjoy the fresh scenery and nature. This is also the place where many people choose to take wedding photos, or take a romantic photo shoot in a green tea field, amidst the glittering golden sun. Tea is also one of the main economic crops in the town with famous tea products nationwide such as shan tea, oolong, Thanh Tam ....
Bach Moc Luong Tu
Bach Moc Luong Tu Peak is located in Sin Sua Ho commune. With an altitude of 3,045m above sea level, Bach Moc Luong Tu is one of the 5 highest mountains in Vietnam and Southeast Asia in Lai Chau province. Conquering Bach Moc Luong Tu is always a challenge but also full of attractions for the adventurers. Not the highest peak, but Bach Moc Luong Tu is known for being the top of the mountain with the most beautiful scenery, and the most interesting route to explore.
Being the most wild, mysterious and charming mountain in Vietnam, the legendary Pu Si Lung peak located on the border of Vietnam and China in Pa Ve Su commune, Muong Te district, Lai Chau province with an altitude of 3083m is destined to Famous as the frontier roof is always a dream destination for adventurers who love to explore.
Muong Te Nature Reserve is located in the two communes of Ta Tong and Mu Ca, where the flora and vegetation are extremely rich and diverse, especially the forest ecosystem. The results of surveys and surveys of Muong Te district show that there are 542 plant species, of which 57 species of rare plants have been recorded in the Vietnam Red Book and 7 species in the World Red Book, most of them are species. rare and precious medicine; 22 species are endemic narrow to the Northwest, 7 species are in the Decree No. 32 of the Government and 6 species specific to the Northwest: Black melon, water cockle, cormorant, brown parashorea, nails, clams, flower slices
Located about 20 km northeast of Lai Chau city, Pu Ta Leng has an altitude of 3049 m. If Fansipan is considered as "the roof of Indochina", then Pu Ta Leng is the second roof that the challengers or young people who are passionate about challenges want to conquer even once. Every year, from October to March next year is the most beautiful time that tourists should choose to conquer Pu Ta Leng Peak because of the beauty of nature and forest flowers, especially azaleas blooming from all over the ridge to the top.
Conquering Pu Ta Leng peak, visitors will have to pass through primeval forests, waterfalls, streams or rich vegetation ... and then when reaching the top will see hidden oases among the ocean of clouds above 3.049m altitude.
The layers of white clouds between the blue sky and the green of the mountains are like a wonderful picture. Along with Pu Ta Leng, Lai Chau also owns 5 other peaks in the Top 10 highest mountains in Vietnam. The order would be Pu Si Lung (3,083m), Pu Ta Leng (3,049m), Bach Moc Luong Tu (3,045m), Khang Su Van (3,012m), Ta Lien (2,993m), Bach Moc Luong (2,976 m)
Muong Than is one of the four largest fields in the Northwest region of Muong Than commune, Than Uyen district. The immense field not only creates a poetic beauty in the middle of the majestic mountains, but also is the place for many famous local products such as baby corn, sweet potato Hoang Long, Chen Cu rice, Tam rice ...
About 6km from Lai Chau city, on the side of provincial road 129 connecting Lai Chau city with Sin Ho district, Pu Sam Cap cave complex is considered as "Northwest first cave". Currently, Pu Sam Cap has two caves that are welcoming tourists: Thien Mon cave and Thien Duong cave with many magical and mysterious stalactites, containing many touching stories of mountainous people. Pu Sam Cap is always an attractive invitation to all visitors from near and far.
Located 6km from the center of Tam Duong town, Ban Si Thau Chai appears poetic, a small village of Dao people with over 60 households living, on cloudy days, visitors can mingle with the clouds. floating. The Si Thau Chai village appeared so passionate and unforgettable. Come to Si Thau Chai to experience daily life, production, enjoy ethnic cuisine, participate in folk games ...
Hand-carried piglets is a specialty of the Northwest highlands. This breed of pig is freely roamed in the forest by ethnic minorities to find food by themselves, so each pig weighs only about 10-15 kg. Due to eating the leaves of trees and vegetables in the forest, their meat is very firm and delicious. Hand-carried piglets are processed into many delicious dishes such as steaming, baking, cooking fake civets, stewed, cooking soup ... Each dish is marinated and cooked with leaves and seeds bearing mountain flavor, bringing a strange feeling. , especially for first-time visitors.
If you have the opportunity to come to Phong Tho district, do not miss the goby with ash - a specialty of the Thai ethnic group. Goby is available in rivers and streams, after being caught, it is preliminarily processed and marinated with finely chopped spices such as lemongrass, chili, ginger, pepper, cocoons, basil, cuttings ... After marinating for about 15-30 minutes, the fish will be wrapped in the leaves and buried in hot ash, about 30 minutes, turn it over once, just like that a few times the fish will cook.
Pa Ping Top (grilled fish) is quite sophisticated, often used in meals when the family has guests. They choose fresh, whole carps to grill. After a little salt and dried chili powder to remove fishy smells, the seasoning is herbs such as pods (a wild pepper), ginger, garlic, lemongrass, onions, herbs. forest, chili powder ... chopped, mixed together and close evenly on themselves, and stuffed into the fish's belly.
As a traditional dish of Lai Chau ethnic minority, purple sticky rice shows the skill of the hands in the woman's processing. Sticky rice is soaked for 6-8 hours before bringing. The distinctive and attractive purple color of sticky rice is dyed with a plant called "the gate" (a kind of forest leaf).
Stone moss is a clean vegetable of Lai Chau people. One must take great care when taking them from the rocks by the stream to process them into delicious dishes for the family such as cooking soup, baking, stir-frying ... When preparing the moss, the worker needs to pick up the moss and put it in the basket. , wash through clean water to remove sand and dirt, put on a large rock, or cutting board and use a large log to beat, just do this a few times before it can be cooked.
Giant greens grow everywhere in the home garden, pond banks, stream banks, so they are often present in Thai people's daily meals in Lai Chau. The way to make this dish is also quite simple: choose the young tops, wash them, dry them in the sun, then cook them, then mix well with herbs, chili, ginger, garlic, MSG, salt and squeeze some fresh lemon.
