(HBO) – Ke hamlet in Hien Luong commune, Da Bac district, the northern mountainous province of HoaBinh, is an ideal destination in Hoa Binh lake area for visitors who wish to explore nature and culture.
Tourists
can reach Ke hamlet, which is located along Hoa Binh lake with 80 Muong
households, via waterways and roads. It takes about 15 minutes to walk from the
centre of Da Bac town to Hien Luong commune. Tourists can also depart from Bich
Ha Port in Hoa Binh city and travel around Hoa Binh lake for an hour before
reaching Ke hamlet.
Visitors
will cross a grass cover along the lake on the way to Ke hamlet, Hien Luong
commune (Da Bac district) by water.
Two
families in Ke hamlet, including HuuThao’s and Sanh Thuan’s, offer home-stay
services. Three more households will provide the service soon. The local
landscape, culture and people have attracted visitors near and far, as
reflected through the increasing number of holiday-makers. Apart from
international tourists and local students, Ke hamlet also welcomes families.
Visitors will have a chance to explore mountains, imposing forests and vast
lakes in Ke hamlet, and live with locals.
Home-stay
service suppliers and locals will guide tourists on how to discover Ke hamlet.
Holiday makers should base on their vacation length to
arrange the activities they want to do on their own ways when staying in the
locality. They can row, swim in lakes or streams, ride bikes and walk in the
jungle, or join locals in harvesting rice, fishing, hunting and weaving. They
can also go with locals into the jungle to dig bamboo shoots, which can be
boiled, roasted or used to make soup. Fishing and taking a view of the lake
during moonlit nights is the enjoyable experience. The lake is rich in shrimp
and fish, from African carp to carp, chub, pike, and even trionychid turtle.
Tourists can catch crabs and fish
while bathing in Ke Spring. Other local specialties are chicken, grilled and
steamed fish and buffalo meat with "lom” leaves.
Those who like adventure tourism can
climb Bieu Mount to explore culture of the Dao Da Bac minority group in Sung
hamlet, Cao Son commune. When the night falls, holiday-makers gather around the
campfire, enjoying Ruou Can (wine drunk out of a jar through pipes) and Ruou
Hoang (wine made of forest plant leaves) and dancing.
Rowing the boat to enjoy the beauty
of mountains and houses along the river will give tourists peaceful feelings.
But holiday-makers should wear life jackets to ensure safety.
After a day of exploring, visitors
will take a rest in clean and neat stilt houses looking over the lake and
surrounded by orchards. /.
Le
Chung
Hoa Binh has taken measures, focusing on removing barriers in terms of mechanism, policy, infrastructure, and upgrading technical infrastructure facilities serving tourism and the quality of human resources, to promote tourism development in the Hoa Binh Lake area.
Over the past time, Da Bac has deployed measures to lure more domestic and foreign visitors to the locality, aiming to turn tourism into the district’s economic spearhead.
Covering an area of over 52,000 hectares spanning districts of Mai Chau, Tan Lac, Cao Phong, Da Bac, and Hoa Binh City, Hoa Binh lake has strong potential for tourism development. In recent years, thanks to the attention of local Party Committees and authorities as well as support from international organisations, the advantages of tourism in the lake area have been utilised.
Mai Chau is a mountainous district and home to many ethnic groups such as Thai, Muong, Kinh, Mong, Dao, and Tay with distinctive cultural identities, creating a diverse and unique cultural treasure. Aware of its advantages, the district has paid attention to the preservation and promotion of ethnic groups’ cultural values so that culture will become a leverage for tourism and contribute to socio-economic development and life quality improvement.