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Cloud hunting on Khau Pha Pass
Visiting Mu Cang Chai district, Yen Bai province is a great opportunity for backpacking tourists and photographers during the cloudy season on Khau Pha pass. Khau Pha mountain pass is a magnet for visitors with stunning terraced fields in the seasons of rain and ripening rice. It looks even more gorgeous when the clouds come creeping the forest, the terraced fields and surrounding hamlets. People always recommend popular destinations in the north such as Ta Xua, Moc Chau (Son La province), Hoang Lien Son and Y Ty (Lao Cao province) but the charming cloudy season on Khau Pha pass still has few visitors. We have gone twice a year in the last ten years to spend time in the area. This was the first time during those ten years that we saw the clouds enveloping the hamlets and the terraced fields in Khau Pha