Ta Xua Mountain Mist

Yunnan (China) is the main source of Pu’erth of the world, because most of ancient tea trees have ever existed, live in this region for thousand of years and their leaves are the main ingredient for producing pu’erth tea. But if you look at the map, you’ll see that Yunnan shares the border with Myanmar in the west, Laos in the south and Vietnam in the southeast. Which means the northwestern region of Vietnam share similar geographical conditions with Yunnan, and of course, the ancient tea trees also live in here.

The ancient tea trees love to grow in high elevated regions, and Ta Xua Mountains is that kind of place, it’s one of the highest mountains in northwestern Vietnam with the highest peak of 2.865m and locates only a few hundred of kilometres away from Yunnan. Ta Xua means ‘high mountain’ in the language of H’mong people, the main minority group that live in the mountains. There are approximately 400 to 500 elder tea trees that still existed in the region and all of them are protected by 7 minority groups that have lived with the tea trees for hundred of years . They called the tea made from elder tea trees with the name of “high mountain snow tea” not only due to the leaf appearance but they also believe that the leaves are covered by the mist droplets or snowflakes.