VietNamNet Bridge – Around 200km from Hanoi, Suoi Giang commune in the Van Chan district, the northern mountain province of Yen Bai, is 1,371m above sea level. The commune is located on the mighty Fansipan Mountain. This is the home of the oldest tea trees in the world.

300-year-old tea tree in Yen Bai

The weather in Suoi Giang is cool all the year round, like Vietnam’s resort centers as Sapa (Lao Cai province) and Da Lat (Lam Dong province).

From the peak of Suoi Giang, visitors can admire the vast Muong Lo field, the second largest granary in Vietnam’s northwestern region.

They can also climb up ancient tee trees of 300 years old to pick tea buds with hospitable H’Mong natives, and walk in the fokienia forest or have a bath at Tap Lang waterfall.

Yen Bai province is implementing a plan to turn Suoi Giang into a tourist site, with attractive tourism products.

Discover the life in Suoi Giang through VietNamNet’s pictures:

Most of locals are H’Mong ethnic minority people. Ancient tea trees

are their major source of living. However, they also plant upland rice.

A H'mong woman.

The fields are often dozens of kilometers far from their home.

H’Mong people in Suoi Giang don’t use sickles, but their own tool to cut rice.

The tool is a short blade with a bamboo handle.

H’Mong women always use leggings to avoid terrestrial leeches,

and not be cut by rice leaves while working in the field.

Colorful costumes of H’Mong women.

A vegetable garden of a H’Mong family.

Horses are the mean of transport in Suoi Giang.

Women carry their children on their back while working.

The morning in Pang Cang village, Suoi Giang commune.

Tea leaves are always picked in the early morning.

The meal of a H’Mong family.

H’Mong kids.

H’Mong girls in the field.

Anh Le