Blessed by nature with beautiful landscapes with hundreds of caves, waterfalls, grass hills and a cultural space imbued with ethnic identity, some destinations in Cao Phong district are likened to "fairyland" or "tourist paradise". Clearly identifying its potential and advantages, over the recent years, the district has continuously invested in embellishing, preserving and increasing the value of its landscapes and relic sites to develop tourism.
The Heritage
Park of Vietnamese Scientists (Meddom Park) in Bac Phong commune, Cao Phong
district, is one of the many attractive destinations for visitors of all ages.
In mid-July, Cao Phong One Member Co., Ltd. launched a new
tourism product: Ha Den vineyard tourist site in Cao Phong town. Coming there,
tourists are free to visit and take photos, and can buy grapes as gift.
Visitors are also guided by the company's technical staff on how to plant and
care for the vines if they want to experience it.
To make tourism and services a key economic sector of the
district by 2025, with an average growth reaching at least 15%, bringing the
proportion of the industry to 30% by 2025 and 40% by 2030, the district has
been focusing on implementing key tasks and solutions such as continuing to
promote dissemination to raise public awareness of tourism development,
mobilising resources to invest in building infrastructure, especially
transport, wharf and telecommunications infrastructure.
Attention will be paid to speeding up socialisation of
investment in construction of tourism infrastructure; building eco-resorts
combined with high-quality entertainment services, historical and cultural
relic sites, community-based and spiritual tourism sites; developing diverse
and attractive tours to attract more visitors; building typical local tourism
products; and improving the quality of spiritual tourism in the Hoa Binh Lake
tourist area like Thuong Bong Lai and Dong Son temples in Cao Phong town, Khanh
pagoda in Thach Yen commune, and Quen Ang pagoda, and Mo Muong cultural space
in Hop Phong commune.
To date, the district has established 88 Muong ethnic
cultural clubs in communes and residential areas and preserved over 1,600 gongs
and nearly 100 traditional stilt houses in the community. Tourism promotion and
development has received due attention.
In 2023, Cao Phong welcomed over 331,800 tourist arrivals,
including over 3,000 foreigners, a year-on-year increase of 114.4%. In the
first half of this year, over 225,000 tourists, including 3,315 foreigners,
chose the district as their holiday destination.
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.
Da Bac district, bestowed with stunning landscapes, is developing ecological and resort tourism offerings. Several tourist sites, put into operation this year, has attracted throngs of high-spending and young domestic visitors.