In late April and early May, plums start to grow in Son La Province’s Moc Chau District.

The Na Ka Valley is one of the largest plum’s growing areas in Moc Chau District with more than 100 hectares of plums. It is selected as home of the annual fruit harvest festival.

Visitors to the festival will have a chance to participate in several activities such as plum picking contest, plum tasting, cooking, and some folk games. Through these activities, the festival created a chance for plum growers to exchange experience.

Below are some amazing photos of the exciting plum-picking festival captured by our freelance photographer Nguyen Huu Thanh.

The annual plum-picking festival takes place in Na Ka Valley.

Women getting dressed in national costume participating in plum-picking competition.

Music adds joyfulness to the atmosphere of the festival.

The annual plum-picking festival attracts a large number of tourists from all over the world and ethnic groups on the Moc Chau Plateau.

A folk game of the Meo ethnic minority group during the festival.

Plums are arranged in letters ''Moc Chau''.

Reporting by DNO - Translating by M.DUNG