(HBO) – The upland district of Da Bac possesses many key potentials and advantages to develop tourism. The scenes are natural, wild, and majestic, with the significant landscape of Da River water in freshly green, the large and small islands are undulating on the water like "Ha Long on land".
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Thac Bo Temple attracts a large number of
tourists.
The district has a rich and diverse natural
forest ecosystem, especially at Pu Canh Nature Reserve in the areas of Dong
Chum, Dong Ruong, Doan Ket, and Tan Pheo communes with a variety of precious
woods and populations of diverse animals and vegetation, whose values are
available for ecotourism development and scientific research. In particular,
this is the place where many ethnic groups have been living for a long time, including
four main ethnic groups of Tay, Muong, Kinh, and Dao. Each ethnic group has a
diverse culture, and typical identity. The villages are close to the nature
with custom activities, indigenous life style, and unique culture identities,
which are favorable for the development of community tourism.
In addition, the spiritual values are clearly
expressed in the lives of ethnic people. In particular, some typical places are
Thac Bo Temple - the provincial relics, Le Loi gravestone (Vay Nua commune),
which is a spiritual tourist attraction attracting thousands of visitors to
visit and go sightseeing at the beginning of the year. The district also has
national historical relics. In the district, there has initially formed many
major tourist attractions such as Bieu Mountain scenic spots, Lo Lan Cave, Ke
stream, Hien Luong commune; Sam Cave, Vom Cave, Toan Son commune; Ta Khop
waterfall, Dong Ruong commune; Than cave, Vay Nua commune; Lao Stream, Mua
Cave, Sung Cave, Cao Son Commune; Dua Island, Trang Trech village, Vay Nua
commune; Sung Cave (Robinson Tourism Destination), Tien Phong commune, etc.
Coming to Da Bac, visitors can come to the
community tourism destinations to be in harmony with nature beauty, feeling the
peaceful life, friendly and hospitable people through living activities,
costumes, unique ethnic cuisine in the village.
With the mobilization of all resources, the
potential and advantages of tourism have initially been exploited effectively
to contribute to improving the material and spiritual life of local people in
the area. Up to now, the district has 7 tourist accommodation establishments
with 47 guest rooms and 3 community tourism spots, 9 households doing community
service businesses in Hien Luong, Tien Phong and Cao Son communes.
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.
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