• Corn, the second largest crop we grow
  • The main 'road' is here, but hard to see due to the steep landscape
  • Corn
  • Muong Hoa river
  • Lao chai Village is one km. this way >>>
  • Flooded rice paddies
  • A person... possibly checking the water level for the perfect time to start planting
  • Tavan Village is this way. Aprox. 3 km.
  • <<< the main road is 1 km.
  • Lovely! - JannaPham
  • love this detail : Before/After ... - Cl☼se - bises & merci à vous de tt mon ♥ :-)
  • You can see a closeup here
  • The Green rice, read more details here
  • Rice paddies continue way up on this montain
  • All irrigation is done manually by controlling the water flow for one paddy to another.
    This area near the river banks has the best, widest and easiest to work, paddies. Up the mountains they get much steeper and narrow
  • Wonderful view! - Kuang Woo | Photography
  • Another capture, right? - B℮n
  • this is awesome! - This is fucked

Awesome view of our livelihood

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Hmong, Sapa -- We are planting the Rice now.
Early morning view of Muong Hoa Valley -- The landscapes look changes rapidly within weeks. From the unworked paddies, to the vibrant terra cotta color of the land, than flooded by water, light green when just planted and darker, beautiful… magical green, as the rice grows. The rice planting season is now in full force and everyone is in the fields working in the labor intensive process. Unlike what many of you may think, it’s a happy time for the Hmong, when families and friends work together. They chat and laugh and you will never hear a complaint or rarely see a sign of hardship. After all, rice is the food they need and paying the utmost attention to every minute detail may just bring a few more grains.

See the rice set here

The Black Hmong are the 3rd largest minority in Vietnam with nearly 900,000 people. In the Sapa region there are about 35,000 Black Hmong residing in the surrounding 17 villages and they account for about 50% of the area population. The Hmong started migrating to Vietnam from China in the last 300 years. They live of the land and believe in the spirits.

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  1. GlobeTrotter 2000 26 months ago | reply

    Fantastic capture !

  2. noprayer4dying 25 months ago | reply

    amazing view

  3. BintKhalid 25 months ago | reply

    beautiful!

  4. manoj.agro 24 months ago | reply

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called agronomy, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  5. cool jack1 21 months ago | reply

    is this from benguet?

  6. madero-padova 17 months ago | reply

    Excellent compo.

  7. EvertonR 15 months ago | reply

    I'm out of words...

  8. THATS RIGHT 12 months ago | reply

    Please join group if you have not already
    and share your wonderful photos and videos for all to see.

    PLANET EARTH OUR HOME

  9. YourCCDA 12 months ago | reply

    So beautiful harmony Nature / Man, i like very much !
    Congrats for your Fantastic work !!!!!


  10. AbhijeetAJ 11 months ago | reply

    Awesome shot.

  11. Prof.Suresh G. Isave 9 months ago | reply

    you are Fantastic
    Greeting from India

  12. A.Alwosaibie 8 months ago | reply

    very very wonderful work..

  13. niñajercie abuhat rosales 4 months ago | reply

    beautiful

  14. okay.deborah 4 months ago | reply

    ce dans quel pays

  15. marinela 2008 3 months ago | reply

    Very interesting picture, great series !

  16. Oathe 2 months ago | reply

    Spectacular scene! Very beautifully presented!

  17. bq_bq 2 weeks ago | reply

    wow imagine

  18. FASHION SOLS 2 weeks ago | reply

    so so so so so so soooooooooooo beautyful

  19. Bill Swindaman 2 weeks ago | reply

    What everyone else said . . .

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