Arriving in Lao Cai in the winter, renting a hotel room with full amenities is probably easier than in the summer. But homestay stays in the villages will be a special experience in the winter, especially attractive for those who love exploring. You will enjoy the traditional dishes of the people, with fresh food grown in the garden. With the honest and hospitable personality of the people here, visitors are sure to feel comfortable and satisfied. At the end of the year is the leisure season of ethnic minorities, this is also an opportunity to take place in traditional rituals, beliefs such as weddings, dry ghosts .... If you are passionate about discovering the customs of people, then staying at the village will be a good opportunity to learn. Especially in Bac Ha, homestay homestays are offered by land. You will discover the unique architecture of the people here and feel more about the warmth between the cold winter when being in the houses of land.

Special dishes in the winter in the highlands will make you fall in love. Winter will have many delicious, unique dishes such as winnings, salmon hotpot ... and especially there are only items in winter such as stone sprouts, smoked meat, sparkling .... Between the cold weather and enjoying hot salmon hotpot, sip a glass of hot spicy wine, accompanied by a little taste of fried cabbage and smoked meat will dispel the cold air. And you should also miss the only items in cold winter such as stone sprouts, smoked meat ... Probably these dishes will bring interesting and impressive feelings of highland cuisine that you will cannot be obtained in other regions, other seasons of the year.

Arriving in Lao Cai in the winter, you are afraid of not having many interesting discoveries for fear of haze and cold weather. But you rest assured you will have a lot of options to explore Lao Cai like watching clouds, discovering the market, watching early blooming cherry blossoms, conquering Phan Si Pang .... In Lao Cai there are many hunting spots, but Sa Pa town, Fansipan peak, Y Ty and Bach Moc Luong Tu are the most popular and are known as cloudy paradises. As for the market in the last months of the year, it will be much different because this is the time of leisure, people have more time to go to the market to play, shop and bring agricultural products to sell, which will bring the colors Special colors for the market, making the market atmosphere more crowded and busier. A very special thing when you discover Sapa, Bac Ha, Si Ma Cai ... you will encounter peach trees that bloom early. It is a rare opportunity for you to see the slender forest peaches, show off early without having to wait for spring. This is also the time when the cherry blossom trees in Sapa flourish in a bright sky.

Winter travel probably won't be unfamiliar to many visitors. A lot of strange things await you. Plan to travel east right now so you don't have to miss interesting things that you can't experience in other seasons of the year. If you meet on the occasion of low temperatures, you also have the opportunity to see the snow and ice in Sapa.

What is more interesting while enjoying the specialties and watching the winter landscape

BBQ Chicken

Chicken chicken is raised in a wild, firm and delicious meat, marinated with spices, then rolled over to a new straw and then baked on red charcoal, very popular with tourists. With a grilled chicken dish with crispy, tough chicken skin and a sweet layer of meat and a little chili powder, it makes a very warm, very private Lao Cai.

Pigs with armpits

It is a small pig breed, only about ten kilograms, this animal is raised by mountainous people in a free-grazing manner. After each harvest, they were released freely on terraced fields to search for food, grass and straw, and the remaining grains. They grow up with natural food so the meat is very clean. Armpit pork can be processed into many delicious dishes. In a restaurant in the highlands, you can easily enjoy grilled meat dishes marinated with marvel and typical spices of mountains and forests such as seeds, pepper, forest, etc. The grilled meat dishes are yellow. incubated like honey, smelled sweet, when eating felt sweet, strong, sweet and sweet meat smelled of smoke, the flesh was a bit tough, with a few leaves, it was delicious.

To make delicious meat, people choose sirloin, pieces in the shoulder or back, stubble into a lead and then chill pepper, salt, ginger, leaf water and hang up, hang up the kitchen floor until they dry. The longer the smell of smoke smells and the sweeter the meat tastes, the more you want. Sipping buffalo meat with Ban Pho corn wine or San Lung wine is amazing.

To the Northwest this season, enjoy the essence of heaven and earth through the skillful hands of the people here, watching the golden season, feeling a meaningful and friendly life. It is true that "Walking to Lao Cai watching the mountain pass / Listening to the forest waving for a happy waterfall / The golden season of the nine-year-old rice silently calls / Standing at the sunset, not wanting to return".