New appearance in Muong Ai community tourism village

4/11/2018 - 3:34:58 PM

(HBO) - Ai Village, Phong Phu Commune (Tan Lac) is known as the ancient village of Muong Bi Area, one of the 20 traditional villages of typical ethnic minorities invested by the State in conversation and embellishment.

The gate house is deeply Muong village architecture, the campus full of flowers is a highlighted attraction to visitors to Muong Ai village, Phong Phu commune (Tan Lac).

Exploring the ancient Muong village of Ai villgage is quite interesting because hardly no places like this place still hold nearly 100% of traditional style stilt houses. The road into the village is through the bridge across the bridge to the Ai stream of clear blue water, calm and peaceful nature. 100% of the households living there are Muong ethnic people with long cultural traditions, many features in the dining and speaking customs, living habits are still preserved. Visitors can also experience the unique characteristics of the living habits, cultural characteristics of the Muong ethnic people with water rice cultivation, cotton growing, weaving, hunting ... Many Muong families also preserve gongs, traditional folk songs of THUONG RANG, Bo MENG.

However, besides the good first impressions about Muong ancient village, tourists also have a lot of anxiety when traveling in Ai village. Athanael, a visitor from Marseille (France) said that: In addition to keeping and preserving traditional cultural values, visitors have some certain requirements for environmental landscapes and supporting factors. When I visited Muong Ai village before, it still missed those important factors. In particular, rural sanitation is a matter of concern. Besides two standardized homestay accommodations, visitors couldn’t find another place to eat and stay which met all of their accommodation requirements. This also explained the reason why Muong Ai village before was very rare for guests to stay and take a rest. Most of the visitors found it inconvenient and unsatisfactory with the lack of accommodation, especially while staying there.

In order to make a change, indiscriminately waste dispose has been improved much. Most of the households have moved the cattle cages far from their habitats. Some households paid attention to invest and renovate hygienic toilets. After a short time, from October 2017 to March 2018, with the mobilization of community activities, the environment and landscapes in Muong Ai village have changed positively. The houses of the households are cleaned up to be always clean and tidy. Every house has gates, fences, especially all the gates are made from imperata cylindrica, bamboo, and leaves available towards the prototype of the house gate of the Muong people from the ancient times. Another impression is that along the main road of the village into each house is covered with a lot of flowers just after a few months of effort. According to Mrs. Dinh Thi Dun, the head of the Women's Union of Ai village, this is the idea of the women in the village to create the alleys and roads more beautiful, colorful and fresher.

Ms. Chu Thi Mai Lan, a visitor from Hanoi Capital remarked: "I am impressed with what I have experienced in Muong Ai village on my recent visit. I was more attracted by the beautiful landscape created by the families together. It is extremely interesting and pleasant to walk around the village, each house has a bamboo gate, flower campus, bonsai, the road is stretched with grass flowers.

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