Sunlight cuts through drifting clouds and settles on the terraced slopes of Sapa, where rice fields cascade down the mountainsides like a living staircase. Located in Vietnam"s Lào Cai province, this highland region is shaped as much by human hands as by nature. Generations of farmers from local ethnic communities such as the Hmong have carved and maintained these terraces for centuries, guiding water across steep hillsides to sustain each growing season.
Rice fields at Sapa, Lào Cai, Vietnam
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Songkran—Thai New Year
-
Infrared Jupiter, erupting Io
-
Welcome to California
-
The story of the poinsettia
-
Pretty poetic for a pit
-
Zion National Park Turns 100
-
Göreme, Cappadocia, Turkey
-
Skyscraper Day
-
European Day of Parks
-
International Mountain Day
-
Earthrise on Moon Day
-
Landscape Architecture Month
-
Molokini Crater, Maui, Hawaii
-
The National Museum of the American Indian
-
Celebrating the UN’s International Day of Families
-
Happy Pi Day!
-
Spring equinox
-
Totally Thames Festival, London
-
An uncommonly cool critter
-
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah
-
A garden of prickly delights
-
National Aviation Day
-
Veterans Day
-
World Octopus Day
-
World Oceans Day
-
Group of giant cuttlefish, Whyalla, South Australia
-
Beyond Walls for World Refugee Day
-
The circular castle of Cornwall
-
Patriot Day
-
Bowling Ball Beach in Mendocino County, California
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

