1. Overview:
Crossing the winding road, winding around the mountainside, taking a full breath to enjoy the fresh air, looking at the colorful flower hills and hundreds of years old tea hills. age; Or sit by the flickering fire and enjoy a cup of fragrant Shan Tuyet tea… Great and unforgettable experiences when coming to Suoi Giang, Van Chan district.
2. Reputation for great old tea plants with thousands of years:
Coming to Suoi Giang, visitors can not help but be surprised by the hundreds of years old tea hills, famous aroma both at home and abroad. A scientist had to exclaim: “I have been to 120 countries in the world, but I have never seen a perennial tea tree as big as the one in Suoi Giang".
The ancient tea trees in Suoi Giang live at an altitude of 1,400 meters above sea level, the trees are less than a hundred years old, and the trees are more than 300 years old. Young buds are still green on the rough, white, moldy tea stems, firmly rooted on the craggy mountainside, creating a unique landscape of ancient tea gardens. Tea is picked, copied by the experience and skillful hands of the Mong people. The firm tea buds are covered with a translucent white coat, so they are called snow tea.
3. How is Shan Tea in Suoi Giang?
Shan Tuyet Suoi Giang tea is very unique, in a bowl of green tea, the top flavors of tea in the world converge. Visitors come here not only “adventure" under the ancient tea canopy, but also experience the activities of picking tea, making tea, and enjoying tea. Hand picking fresh tea buds, one shrimp, two leaves, sipping the acrid taste and then enjoying the sweet aftertaste of the tea, there is nothing more interesting than that," said Thu Thuy from Yen Bai city.
4. Activities:
From this cultural space, visitors can see the roofs of the Mong people hidden among the mountains and clouds; enjoy a quiet resting space amidst the vast green tea plantations; enjoy the ethnic specialties, in which there are strange dishes mixed in the taste of ancient tea such as: grilled meat roll with tea leaves, young tea leaves eaten raw with herbs; enjoy tea through a very sophisticated brewing process performed by artisans who have undergone training in the art of tea making.
5. Tours to explore Suoi Giang Great Tea Platation Luc Yen and Mu Cang Chai discovery:
Tours to explore Gemstone market and plus Mu Cang Chai & Northwest Vietnam Tours. The travel route is Hanoi – Suoi Giang – Mu Cang Chai – Sapa – Hanoi. Travel by private car from Hanoi to sapa then the experienced night train to return Hanoi.