(HBO) – The Mai Chau uplandmarket - a unique tourism product of Hoa Binh province’s Mai Chau district – becomes more and more attractive to holidaymakers, offering tourists a venue to experience daily activities and understand more about traditional culture identities of the locality.
Visitors
are interested in traditional costumes sold at the market.
In the first Sunday of April, people from
the Hang Kia, Pa Co, Dong Tan, Son Thuy, Bao La, Chieng Chau, Mai Ha and Thanh
Son communes of Mai Chau district transport their products or those found in
forests such as orchids, vegetables, bitter bamboo shoots and mountain snails, to the market for sale.
Because loving the natural scenery and people of Mai Chau so much, many
tourists visit the destination not just once.
They said visiting the market, they have a chance to learn more about unique
cultural identities of the locality, and buy agricultural products that
have not been sold in Hanoi.
According to Vice Chairman of the
Mai Chau district People’s Committee Pham Van Hoan, the highland
marketfestival is held every Sunday as part of activities to mark the
southern liberation and national reunification day (April 30) and May Day (May
1), and to stimulate tourism demand.
During the festival, visitors enjoy music
performances imbued with national cultural identity and play popular folk games
such as tu lu, to le, and rope swing.
The festival contributes to introducing and popularising local tourism images,
beauty of local customs and cultural identities of ethnic minorities, thus
attracting more domestic and foreign visitors and further promoting
socio-economic development of the locality./.
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Hoa Binh is an ancient land home to limestone mountains running along the southeast direction and in parallel with Truong Son Mountain Range in the West, forming many basins and valleys with a rich diversity of fauna and flora. Humans came to reside here in the pre-historic period, creating the world-famous Hoa Binh Civilisation.