Luc Ngan litchi season is in full swing, dyeing the roads red.

Bac Ninh - The capital of Luc Ngan litchi is in the busiest time of the year. Kilometers of road along National Highway 31 from Hanoi to Chu commune are packed with buyers and sellers.

Every year in June - July, Luc Ngan commune ( Bac Ninh ) enters the busiest, most bustling and colorful lychee harvest season of the year. Known as the lychee capital of Vietnam, Luc Ngan lychees are ripe with bright red color, small seeds, thick flesh, and a characteristic sweet taste. Every summer, Luc Ngan lychees are always consumed in large quantities of hundreds of thousands of tons.

Tran Linh (31 years old) is a photographer and tour guide living in Hanoi, specializing in organizing photography tours. At the end of June, not missing the time to harvest and sell ripe lychees in Luc Ngan, he spent 3 days taking photos to document and experience the lives of the people here.

During lychee season, everywhere on the streets of Luc Ngan you can see people harvesting and transporting lychees to sell to traders. Linh wakes up at 5am every day and travels the streets until 9pm to hunt for these moments that are both ordinary and full of the essence of his homeland.

From 5am, the lychee capital is bustling with car lights, engine noise, and people eagerly moving lychees to sell to traders. They trade from morning to night, however, the earlier they sell, the higher the price, the later they sell, the traders with enough goods can push the price down.

The secret to taking photos smoothly among the bustling lychee trading crowd, Mr. Linh shared: "Be friendly with people, ask for permission before taking close-up photos, do not push into the weighing area, bring water, hats and protect your camera in hot conditions."

Rush hour here is from 5am to 8am, from alleys to intersections and main roads, there will be lines of trucks carrying ripe lychees waiting to weigh the goods.

Mr. Linh said, from Hanoi you can travel in the direction of Hanoi - Bac Giang Expressway then turn onto National Highway 31 and go straight to Luc Ngan. Along National Highway 31 there are communes with a high concentration of residents, traders and fabric transporters and sellers for you to stop and take photos such as: Chu, Phuong Son...

Kilometers were “dyed red” by hundreds of motorbikes of people transporting ripe lychees and waiting to be purchased. Because he had cherished taking this photo series for a long time but only had the opportunity this year, when he saw the scene of “traffic jam” during the lychee ripening season, Mr. Linh felt very emotional.

The "bumper crop" look of Luc Ngan farmers in the lychee season.

The scene of "traffic jams" during lychee ripening season has become a typical image that impresses anyone who comes to Luc Ngan.

Riding a motorbike will help you navigate through traffic jams, easily stop to take photos, or stand on the saddle to get high angles. However, there are also many sections where people and goods are packed so tightly that you can only walk through.

Lines of trucks carrying lychees line up in rows, waiting to be weighed. Despite the bustling trading scene, this year’s Luc Ngan lychee season is “a bumper crop, low prices”. The price of lychees purchased at the garden is only 8,000 - 20,000 VND/kg, lychees with growing area codes and nicer packaging are priced at 25,000 - 30,000 VND/kg.

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