(HBO) – The Muong ethnic village of Giang Mo, Binh Thanh commune, Cao Phong district is a stopover place to explore, enjoy, experience the lakeside of Hoa Binh Lake.
A corner of the Muong ethnic village of Giang
Mo
Giang Mo hamlet is the home to more than one
hundred households, all of Muong ethnic people who still retain unique identity
from building houses, ways, dressing, living styles in the production. The
ancient stilt houses of the Muong ethnic people gather together to express the
cohesion of the community. The houses were set up on the large land, leaning
back on the hill, around the stream murmured day and night. Although life is
difficult but the Muong ethnic people are extremely hospitable, just setting foot
to visit, choosing any house as a stop, visitors are treated warmly with love
affection, warmth of local poeple.
The people in the hamlet are always willing
to treat visitors the products of mountainous forests such as nếp nương
sticky rice, cẩm sticky rice, pork filled with leaves, buffalo meat with lồm
leaves, forest chicken, bitter bamboo shoots, steamed stream fish, Can wine,
banana wine. Giang Mo hamlet still keeps and preserves the intact cultural
traditions, characteristic of the ethnic identity. Young men go to the upland
field, women do gardening, housework to improve the family. Muong ethnic women
are very good at woven, weaving embroidery so they often make hand-made
traditional handicraft products such as bamboo and rattan weaving to introduce
to tourists. Meanwhile, the men with many talents, know how to play the flute,
, fishing, shrimp catching, are very gentle, honest, open, easy to approach,
easy to love, always create friendly atmosphere. They will support you with new
experiences when exploring the village, mountains, streams, picking fruit,
which really brings the joy after the worries in urban life.
Giang Mo Hamlet has a lot of local products,
such as banana, grapefruit, forest bamboo shoots, orchid, taro, precious
medicinal plants, honeycomb, chickens, pigs. Buying souvenirs for relatives or
keeping as souvenirs is also very interesting. Also on the journey to Muong
Giang Mo Hamlet, you can visit places such as Cu Chinh Lan Heroes Monument,
Muong Cultural Space Museum, Muong Cultural Heritage Museum, to Thung Nai Port
for exploring and experiencing the tourist on the romantic Hoa Binh Lake.
In the first 9 months of 2024, Hoa Binh province continues to implement the expanded tourism development cooperation program plan of 8 Northwest provinces with Ho Chi Minh City; deploying digital transformation content in tourism and developing a smart tourism province. Hoa Binh province received about 3.6 million views, an increase of 7.9% over the same period. In which, international visitors are about 380 visitors, domestic visitors are estimated at 3 million 220 visitors.
Spanning thousands of hectares and winding gracefully along mountain slopes, hillsides, and riverbanks, the terraced rice fields of Lac Son District present a stunning and captivating beauty. This region, renowned for its remarkable terraced landscapes, is also the centre of Hoa Binh Culture known for numerous archaeological sites.
The life of Mong people in Hang Kia and Pa Co communes of Mai Chau district has improved much thanks to tourism development.
The man-made Hoa Binh Lake, with a water surface area of approximately 9,000 hectares and a capacity of 9.45 billion cubic meters, stretches over 200 kilometers from Hoa Binh to Son La provinces. With the goal of developing into a national tourism area, the Hoa Binh Lake tourism area is expected to not only become the largest tourism centre in the province but also one of the 12 key tourist destinations in the northern midland and mountainous region of Vietnam.
Da Bia hamlet, now Duc Phong, in Tien Phong commune, Da Bac district, was once almost isolated from the outside as the only way to the hamlet was to get a boat ride across the Hoa Binh reservoir. However, as its tourism potential has been unleashed, the hamlet has established itself as one of the most attractive destinations on the tourism map. It has even received the ASEAN Community-Based Tourism Awards in 2019.
In the first 9 months of 2024, Mai Chau district, Hoa Binh province welcomed over 684 thousand visitors to visit and relax. In which, over 516 thousand domestic visitors and more than 168 thousand international visitors. Total revenue from tourism is estimated at over 821 billion VND.