At this gorgeous Vietnamese mountain resort, luxurious meets native tradition

Standing in a protected heritage panorama within the distant, mist-shrouded mountains of northern Vietnam, the Garrya Mu Cang Chai resort contains a most important constructing that’s believed to be the biggest bamboo construction within the nation.

Part of the Singapore-based hospitality firm Banyan Group, the resort is effectively well worth the winding, six-hour drive from Hanoi to Pu Nhu Village, in Yen Bai province’s mountainous rural district of Mu Cang Chai.

Mu Cang Chai’s layered rice terraces, sculpted over 400 years by generations of Hmong individuals, have lengthy been recognised as certainly one of Southeast Asia’s most exceptional landscapes. In 2007, the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism designated this district a nationwide heritage web site.

There is a specific sort of silence that descends whenever you rise above the clouds. In Yen Bai, positioned some 1,500 metres (4,900ft) above sea stage, that calm is just interrupted by the sound of cicadas and the chirping of birds.