The terraces lie along Road No. 32 that runs through Phu Tho-Nghia Lo-Mu Cang Chai (Yen Bai) and Sa Pa (Lao Cai) to Yuanyang (China).

The terraces in Sapa and Yuanyang are among seven most beautiful rice terraces in the world, according to the US magazine Travel and Leisure.

Tran Huu Son, Head of the Lao Cai Provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism said that each location has many ways it can promote its terraces and diversified culture. By traveling only 200km visitors can enjoy the magnificence of all three of these famous landscapes of Asian cultural heritage.