Ngoi hamlet, Ngoi Hoa commune (Tan Lac district) is a community-based tourism destination which has been preserving and upholding the Muong people’s cultural identity.

 Apart from its famous culture, Tan Lac district boasts a lot of landscapes, caves, waterfalls, mountains, natural forests and clean and fresh streams, which show the pristine and majestic beauty along with peaceful villages. These are precious resources for Tan Lac district to promote tourism development.

 Ngoi Hoa and Trung Hoa are two communes located in the surrounding area of Hoa Binh lake. Ngoi Hoa is planned as a "core area” of a national tourism region around Hoa Binh lake.

 Ngoi Hoa possesses many ideal conditions for developing various types of tourism such as community-based tourism and eco-tourism, resort tourism. Ngoi Hoa bay, as well as Hoa Tien and Thac Bo caves are the most attractive tourism sites in Ngoi Hoa commune, helping the locality to build tourism products meeting tourists’ demand.

 Thac Bo cave (a national relic site) in Bung hamlet, Ngoi Hoa commune, is divided into three areas. There are a set of lithophones, Muong stone gongs, silver trees, golden mountains, and stalactite in the cave.

Hoa Tien cave, located in Ngoi hamlet, has two entrances in the south and the southeast. The cave’s entrances are about 8-10 metres higher than the floor. Visitors will have to go through iron stairs installed in the two entrances. Especially, a pristine Karst cave system is hidden in limestone mountains. Through exploration, scientists put forth theories that there might be some other caves that have not been found here as well as the lake (Tien lake) was formed by the process of depression of  the underwater Karst layer which goes through Hoa Binh lake.

 Ngoi hamlet in Ngoi Hoa commune is a Muong people-resided hamlet with 90 households. It is one of the most beautiful and pristine hamlets in the province. The Muong people here still retain the traditional beauty of old stilt houses. Ngoc Lu bronze drum, which is being displayed in the provincial Museum, was found in the hamlet.

 The Hoa Binh Tourism joint Stock Company has cooperated with Ngoi village to build an entertainment area in Ngoi Hoa bay, and tourism products meeting the demand of domestic and foreign visitors.

In recent years, the number of holidaymakers to Ngoi hamlet has increased, reaching 9,000 in 2015 and 12,000 in 2016. The figure is expected to hit 30,000 in 2017. Some enterprises operating in the locality have paid attention to investing in tourism projects, including the Lac Hong Investment joint Stock Company, which is implementing a resort and eco-tourism project in Liem hamlet in Ngoi Hoa commune with a total estimated investment of 800 billion.

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