HBO – Giang Mo village in Binh Thanh commune (Cao Phong district) has been become an outstanding Muong cultural highlight for years. Separating from smoke and noise of urban areas, the picturesque romantic vista of Giang Mo is an ideal destination for those who want to find tranquility. Furthermore, this is one of the ethnic-inhabitedvillages which is defined by the provincial tourism sector to become a spearhead product to attract visitors when talking about Hoa Binh.
Brocade products made by
Giang
Molocals are displayed to sell for tourists
Peaceful
Giang
Mo village
is located in the foot of Mo Mountain, about 12km from Hoa Binh city’s downtown.
It is not difficult to reach the village. The village is home to 145 households
who all belong to the Muong ethnic group. It is considered an alive
museum of
Muong ethnics’ traditional culture as
there remains the traditional architecture of stilt houses, looms of Muong
ethnics, and work tools such as rice mortars, bows, cross-bows, and tools for
mountain field works.
Visiting Giang Mo today,
tourists can walk on the small path running throughout the village, contemplate
the untouched beauty of the nature, and can stop at any stilt house to learn
about Muong culture, enjoy bamboo pole dances beside jars of ruou can (a kind
of wine drunk out of a jar through pipes), and experience daily work of locals
such as caring for poultry and cattle, doing field work, hunting for animals
and picking fruits.
Visitors are also offered a
chance to listen to Muong young women’s stories about weaving and traditional brocade
products such as clothes, bags and scarves and enjoy Muong people’s dishes such
as steamed sticky rice, pork, hill vegetables and spring fish.
At this time, visitors can
also enjoy fresh air and smell the fragrance of rice which is being harvested.
Tran Quang Minh, a second-year student of the
Universityof
Culture said: "My classmates
decided to choose
Giang
Mo to visit. This tour helps us understand
more about the life and daily activities of Muong ethnics and have interesting
first-ever experience such as weaving brocade, throwing "con” (a
cloth ball) through a ring or shooting with a crossbow with local children. We
have noteworthy memories in this beautiful village”.
Village head Nguyen Van
Hau said: "
Giang
Mo village
welcomes thousands of visitors, from inside and outside the country each year.
We are trying to increase the quality of services to make tourists comfortable.
We pay attention to keeping everything clean, from houses, alleys to bedding.
Specially, the village controls locals’ insistence on buying goods”.
All these things create typical
features of
Giang
Mo village. Therefore, although
Giang
Mois not an impressive ecological tourist site with specular natural landscapes
or a services tourist attraction with professional products, it gently attracts
visitors with its plain beauty and the heartiness of local residents./.
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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