Ha Giang Quang Ba

Treed steep hills with ranks of hills beyond and single tree in cleft.

Traveling north from Hà Giang City on Highway 4c, the views of well clad hills, marching off into the distance, are fascinating and often spectacular Continuing on the journey through Hà Giang Province, in the north of Vietnam, this page arrives at Quảng Bạ District just to the north of the provincial capital Hà Giang City. This means that visitors coming from Hà Nội, and points south, receive their first intimations of the grandeur of the northern hills in this area. Accordingly this page presents a little of
this first impact. Dark tree against misty hills.

Using that lone tree to illustrate a constant theme of travel in the northern Vietnam - mistiness Sloping scrub covered ground with road and distant hills.

Sloping scrub covered ground with road and distant hills.

An open landscape of sparse vegetation marked... Sloping hills with number of roads winding across it.

...by winding roads that 'hairpin' up and over the hill passes Looking down on a ridge with road on its top and terraces either side.

Here a ridge-top road making straight progress above large swathes of terraces Clouds coming into valley below with trees, houses and terraces to one side.

Clouds coming into valley below with trees, houses and terraces to one side.

Passes are often above cloud level... Looking down steep terraced hillside with road looping away down the hill, slight cloud.

...and the road can be seen snaking below Clear hills with light woodland and distant mountains.

But clouds do not always encroach, and mornings can offer magnificent vistas

This video, was taken from near to the photo on the left The view down a wide hillside with a road curving back and forth.

The road ahead Looking across valley at line of peaks of karsts.

A residual karst formation - like a row of decaying teeth High steep valley side capped with karsts.

In places valleys have precipitous sides, although... Three trees with high hills beyond.

...below there is vegetation from easier climes Small hills by flat fields.

A village beside its flat fields in the valley bottom - so typical Line of vertical shafts of limestone covered in trees, given scale by dog.

A line of karst dog's teeth, this time on a domestic scale, and a domestic dog to the right,
in these fields by a village Sloping hillside with sharply marked green terraces.

Sloping hillside with sharply marked green terraces.

Evening light catching the terracing Smoke from house catching the light above terraces.

The house smoke as central... Section of terraced fields with young rice.

...and here the terracing as the photograph's focus Long hillside with terraces lightly defined, framed by trees.

Looking at a more rugged, but still terraced, hillside Houses and terracing on hill crest above valley.

From a another high viewpoint, the sun picks out the terracing near a village Two flowering bushes, red and yellow.

High-up, fruiting shrubs in December Very rough large hill, houses in foreground.

Complex, non-karst hills Green low terraced fields by river.

And down by a river, field patterns Young paddy terracing by river.

A closer view of the river-side fields shown above -
bright with the green of young paddy

Trailers...

The next Picture Posting page shows some of the people in Quảng Bạ District.

The next page of the Mosaic Section is headed 'Refugees'.
Or go to the of the Mosaic Section. Monitors can keep the layout, which phones may need to discombobulate.

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Hà Giang - Quảng Bạ Countryside Page seven of the Hà Giang Collection

Hà Giang - Quảng Bạ Countryside
Page seven of the Hà Giang Collection