1. What month is the best time to travel to Ninh Binh during the rice harvest season?
Ninh Binh tourism in the beautiful ripe rice season (Photo source: Collected)
If you are planning to travel to Ninh Binh during the rice harvest season, you will probably wonder when the scenery here is most brilliant. Usually, the rice harvest season in Ninh Binh starts around the end of May and lasts until July, in which June is considered the best time to admire the peaceful beauty of the countryside. However, due to climate change each year, the rice season may come a little earlier or later.
This is the time when Ninh Binh puts on the golden color of ripe rice, harmoniously combining with the majestic mountains and peaceful rivers, creating an unforgettable natural picture. If you are looking for a trip to relax, recharge your energy and capture beautiful moments, this is the ideal time to start your journey to the ancient capital.
2. Places to see ripe rice season in Ninh Binh
2.1. Tam Coc
The ripe rice fields of Tam Coc in Ninh Binh are as beautiful as in a movie (Photo source: Collected)
When Ninh Binh enters the ripe rice season, you can easily see the golden rice fields on every road here. Among them, according to Ninh Binh travel experience, the most beautiful place to see the rice season is still Tam Coc - Bich Dong area. This is also a famous tourist destination not to be missed when coming to Ninh Binh.
Known as “Ha Long Bay on land”, Tam Coc is located in Dam Khe village, Ninh Hai commune, Hoa Lu district, also part of the Trang An scenic complex. This place is ranked by the State as a special national monument and by UNESCO as a world heritage site.
Regardless of the time, Tam Coc - Bich Dong has its own beauty that attracts visitors from everywhere, but perhaps the most beautiful and the peak tourist season is when Ninh Binh is in the ripe rice season.
Tam Coc has three caves: Hang Ca, Hang Hai and Hang Ba. All three caves are formed by the flow of the Ngo Dong River. The river winds in the middle, on both sides are vast rice fields that seem to have no end. Surrounding them are towering limestone mountains, with all sorts of interesting shapes. At the beginning of the year, the rice fields in Tam Coc are still lush green, but when June comes, they turn golden yellow as if dyed by the summer sun. The ripe rice season in Tam Coc has captivated countless people and photographers.
From above, the winding rice fields stand out on the emerald green waters of the Ngo Dong River. Locals built embankments on the river’s alluvial soil to plant rice seedlings, making the rice fields completely submerged in water even more beautiful. Who would have thought that the rice fields here were formed in the 10th century AD?
To experience the ripe rice season in Tam Coc most clearly and authentically, you should travel by boat. Ninh Binh tourists buy tickets right at the boat dock for 120,000 VND/adult. The boats are rowed by people, not motorboats, and can carry a maximum of 4 people. The trip takes about 2 hours, passing through Hang Ca, Hang Hai and Hang Ba. Of which, Hang Ca is the largest cave, 127m long.
2.2. Boat ride along Ngo Dong River
Drifting along the Ngo Dong River on a boat, visitors also have the opportunity to listen to the boatman tell stories about the history of this place, about daily life and work, stories that are very ordinary, genuine and simple. At this time, we are left with only nature, with the fragrant scent of ripe rice and the only sound is the gentle, leisurely sound of the oars splashing the water.
Ninh Binh in the ripe rice season is as beautiful as an artistic painting that you can only feel most clearly when you see it with your own eyes. If the terraced fields of the Northwest have a majestic appearance, dotted with wildness and vastness, the ripe rice in Ninh Binh has a more poetic and gentle beauty, typical of the Northern countryside.
Adding to the golden color of the ripe rice season in Tam Coc are the dreamy pink lotus ponds. Luckily, when the rice is ripe, Ninh Binh also enters the lotus blooming season. In Tam Coc tourist area, there are also many beautiful lotus ponds, spreading a fragrant scent mixed with the scent of rice, a whole sky of the scent of the fields and wind, bringing a strangely familiar and peaceful feeling.
2.3. Climb Hang Mua peak to see ripe rice
Watching ripe rice from Hang Mua (Photo source: Collected)
In addition to admiring the ripe rice fields on a boat along the Ngo Dong River, tourists can also admire the view from above by climbing to the top of Mua Cave. This place is considered the Vietnamese version of the Great Wall, giving you a panoramic view of the vast sky with the winding Ngo Dong River below.
From the top of Mua Cave, the whole season of ripe rice is captured in the sight. The rice fields stretch on endlessly, on the river there are wooden boats carrying people, occasionally the wind blows by, spreading the scent of rice everywhere... What a simple rural picture.
Not only is it a place for Ninh Binh tourists to enjoy the ripe rice season, but Mua Cave is also a super cool check-in spot like in a historical movie. The only thing you need is to prepare a fully charged camera to take lots of pictures.
Ninh Binh in the rice ripening season
Traveling to Ninh Binh during the ripe rice season is not only an opportunity to admire the brilliant natural beauty, but also an opportunity for you to slow down and immerse yourself in the peaceful atmosphere of the countryside. If you are looking for a relaxing and memorable journey, do not hesitate to plan a visit to Ninh Binh this summer. The golden rice fields amidst majestic mountains are waiting for you to explore and capture the most beautiful moments of Northern Vietnam.
Source: https://www.vietravel.com/vn/am-thuc-kham-pha/du-lich-ninh-binh-v17372.aspx
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