By season / January – March
Cool mornings, valley mist
Cloud seas, peak seasonFlood seasonFestivals, summer
January – March
Cool mornings, valley mist
The year starts cool, with mist lying in the valleys at dawn. A quiet time to walk, cycle and sleep in a floating-house homestay. Around Tết the Rục make offerings to the forest spirit.
- DoWalk around Tân Hóa, photograph dawn mist at Yên Phú lake, hear Tết stories in Yên Hợp
- CavesTours run; cave water is cold, check dates with Oxalis
- BringWarm layers, a light rain jacket
January – March
Where to go this season
Tân HóaTân Hóa Floating Village
Vietnam's floating village of the Nguồn people, a UN Tourism Best Tourism Village 2023. Sleep in a floating house, cycle the Rào Nan.
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Yên PhúYên Phú lake
A still lake ringed by peaks, where the Kong crew built a set in 2016. Camp for dawn mist and sunset.
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Yên Hợp – Phú NhiêuYên Hợp and the Rục people
Home of the Rục: from rock shelters to rice paddies and pineapple fields in just over sixty years.
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