Sapa Rice Terraces

The terraced rice paddies carved into the Hoang Lien Son mountains of northwest Vietnam by Hmong and Red Dao ethnic communities over 2,000 years create a landscape of such agricultural beauty that they were listed as one of the world's greatest wonders by UNESCO Asia. The terraces cascade from peaks at 3,143 metres down to valley floors, flooding gold in September's harvest season and creating reflective mirrors during the planting season that have made Sapa Vietnam's most photographed landscape after Ha Long Bay.