Vietnam’s northwestern region is now more poetic than usual as spring is coming. 

The springtime also marks the blooming season of different kinds of local flowers, such as the white plum flower, the cherry blossom and the buckwheat flower. 

Spring scenes become even livelier with images of local ethnic children in colorful traditional costumes.

Na Ka Valley in Moc Chau Farm, Son La Province, is dubbed "the valley of white plum trees." In the photo, a path in Na Ka Valley is lined with plum trees

A field of beautiful buckwheat flowers

Two Mong kids playing in a white plum flower garden

Cheery blossoms in full bloom are seen at Mong ethnic people's villages in Son La

Women of the Mong ethnic people sewing new clothes in spring, believed to be the season of the new

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