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Khau Pha Pass - It is one of the most winding and steep passes in the North (one of the Four Great Peaks of the North) crossing the top of Khau Pha mountain, the highest mountain in Mu Cang Chai. Khau Pha Pass has a starting point at the intersection of National Highway 32 with Highway 279 in a row with Chau Pass in front of it and Vach Kim Pass behind on road 32. The winding passes between the old forests still carry bold primitive features and terraced fields of the H’Mong and Thai ethnic groups. Khau Pha is most beautiful in the rice season, around September-October, when the rice on the foot of the terraced fields is ripe and golden. This is also the time when many tourists venture to conquer the pass to enjoy the scenery. The old forests in Khau Pha still preserve many rare plants and animals such as pine needles, cycads and other rare birds and animals. In the past few years, the pass has become the starting point for paragliding activities in Mu Cang Chai, part of the annual Mu Cang Chai terraced field festival. Paragliding is always in the top of the main activities of the annual Mu Cang Chai ripe rice festival Up to the highest point on Khau Pha pass is where the annual paragliding festival “Flying in the golden season” is held. If you love adventure activities, you can buy tickets to experience this feeling of flying, flying high and watching the rice ripen from a very unique position. Sightseeing spot From the location of these shacks, you can see the whole field of Cao Pha commune These places are built into solid shacks by locals to help visitors have beautiful locations to take photos of Cao Pha fields during the rice season. Ngoc Chien – Muong La Early morning in Ngoc Chien, Muong La Ngoc Chien is the name of a commune of Muong La district, bordering Nam Khat commune of Mu Cang Chai. You ride motorbikes from Hanoi, through Khau Pha pass, right on the left hand side is Nam Khat commune, from here there is a small road running through Ngoc Chien (Muong Chien village), this is a commune with most of the population. Thai people, there are a few tourist services in the village, mainly exploiting a hot spring stream flowing through this commune. From here, you can continue to run to Muong La district to visit Son La hydroelectricity and then follow Highway 6 to Moc Chau – Mai Chau – Hanoi. In Ngoc Chien, you can bathe in hot springs (there are still public hot springs here but not for outsiders, only serving people in the village), enjoy Thai dishes such as sticky rice with upland rice, Grilled pork, grilled hill chicken… See more articles: Ngoc Chien – Muong La travel experience (Updated 11/2022) The terra - xs42hl9k3z - https://sixt.vn/hanoi-to-mu-cang-chai/