Admire the blooming buckwheat flower season on the Ha Giang rocky plateau

In the last month of the year, all over the roads of Ha Giang, you can easily see fields of buckwheat flowers covered in pink and purple colors. The typical highland flower has become a source of inspiration, attracting tourists from all over the country to Ha Giang in recent years.

Buckwheat flower field on hills with trails cross the beautiful flower fields in Northwest Vietnam.

For highland people, buckwheat basically serves as a food crop. The tree trunks are fed to livestock, and the seeds are used to produce cakes, oriental medicine, or even wine. This plant belongs to the bean family (Fabaceae). A buckwheat seed is situated in the center of a pyramid-shaped group of petals. Buckwheat flowers have many colors: white, pink, purple,…. There are two types: one is grown for flowers, so the yield of buckwheat seeds is low; the other is produced just for seeds, thus the yield is extremely large.

Buckwheat flowers have many colors: white, pink, purple,….

The color of buckwheat flowers changes with each stage. When it first blooms, it is pure white, then turns pale pink, purple pink, then dark red, and finally turns black. When it withers, it loses its beauty.

Ethnic girls standing amid a buckwheat flower field is a scene fancied by many tourists. Visitors can take photos with local children. The north western mountainous province of Ha Giang is home to about 20 ethnic minority groups with unique cultural identities and festivals. Photo: VietnamPlus.

Now, buckwheat flowers have become a famous tourism brand in Ha Giang and Meo Vac districts. In recent years, Meo Vac district has expanded its buckwheat flower growing area to dozens of hectares at key locations, with the most concentrated planting in the Pa Vi flower field area and Ma Pi Leng pass. Tourists from all over the country come to Ha Giang to visit and wait for the annual Buckwheat Flower Festival held in the middle of November. Traveling to Ha Giang around this time, we will enjoy the magnificent buckwheat flower fields.

Ethnic H’Mong children pose next to hoa cai (oilseed rape flowers), dong rieng (canna lily flowers) and buckwheat flowers for visitors to take photos. Photo: VnExpress.

Coming to this land, visitors also have the opportunity to interact and experience making Ha Giang buckwheat cakes and mochi cakes using buckwheat ingredients in the Japanese style.