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Vietnam’s spectacular terraced ricefields wait for tourists

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As the morning sun finds its way through the mist over Vietnam’s terraced rice fields, local farmers lead buffalo into the paddies and pass another day without tourists in their hilly homeland.

This picture taken on October 23, 2012 shows rice terraces in the late afternoon light in the mountainous district of Mu Cang Chai, in the northwestern Vietnamese province of Yen Bai. AFP FILE PHOTO

Located 300 km northwest of Hanoi, Mu Cang Chai district in northern Yen Bai province had become a hit with foreign and local tourists alike before the coronavirus pandemic. The Hmong women once rented their colorful traditional costumes to visitors, while men earned up to $30 a day driving them up tiny muddy paths through the hills.

 

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