CNBC lauds Vietnam's Mu Cang Chai terraced fields

Mù Cang Chải's terraced fields have been officially recognised as special national sites by the Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Jan 5. — Vietnamtourism.gov.vn

HANOI (Vietnam News/ANN): The breathtaking landscape created by imposing mountains and terraced fields in Mù Cang Chải District in the northern province of Yên Bái are worth a visit, according to CNBC – a world leader in business news and financial market coverage.

In an article posted on Sunday (Jan 5) titled Why this remote gem should top your 2020 travel list, writer Monica Buchanan Pitrelli extolled the virtues of the region, “a series of colorful (sic) mountain villages are encircled by fields of towering rice terraces. The fields are agricultural feats of precision – rugged mountains blanketed with emerald stairways that, seemingly, ascend to the heavens above.”