(HBO) - Having the opportunity to "travel in the mountains, enjoy water landscapes” on the vast lake of Hoa Binh, do not forget to visit the villages of community tourism. Located along Da River with the charming beauty, the villages of Muong and Dao ethnic minorities will be the ideal stopover for visitors to experience the rustic life, to learn the traditions and customs, and the special cultural features.

Sac Luyen homestay in Ke hamlet, Hien Luong commune (Da Bac) has been chosen to be the ideal exploring stopover by a lot of visitors.

Da Bia community tourism spot of Muong Ao Ta ethnic minority group of Muong Ao Ta in Duc Phong village, Tien Phong commune (Da Bac) is one of such stopovers. On the journey to explore Hoa Binh lake tourism, the fact that the images of Muong Ao Ta girls with gongs welcoming guests as soon as the ship arrives at the dock certainly leaves a strong impression, which holds tourists to stay there. There, visitors have a new sense of culture and identity when they have meals, stay and live in homestays with the architecture of the traditional stilt-houses. They visit the landscapes and beauty spots, learn about the daily life, and the local production with the guidance of the indigenous people. In addition, visitors are also attracted by an intriguing tourism product, visiting "the self-consciousness bar - a form of buying, selling and exchanging like a supermarket of Muong Ao Ta, which has existed before.

Another community tourism spot within the lake area of Da Bac getting the love from tourists is Ke village in Hien Luong commune. According to Mr. Dinh Bao Chung, the owner of Sac Luyen homestay, the reason why Ke hamlet attracts a lot of domestic and foreign tourists is due to keeping the cultural identity on stilt houses and beautiful customs. In addition, in Ke hamlet, there is a number of attractive recreational tourism products, such as kayaking, stream playing, cave climbing, cycling, walking through the primeval forests ... This new tourism products have helped visitors get more experience on the nature and life. However, the homestay households are all aware that the essence of keeping visitors is the identity. The tourists’ psychology is that they want to stay to experience sleeping on the stilt houses, enjoying the traditional dishes, learning and participating in the production activities such as brocade making, fishing, wine making, sour meat making…

Following the sightseeing cruises along Da river, the community tourism spot in Ngoi hamlet, Suoi Hoa commune (Tan Lac) is also a place worth experiencing and exploring. Located in Ngoi Hoa Bay, one of the core areas of the tourism area within Hoa Binh lake, there is a beautiful natural landscape with friendly and hospitable people in the hamlet. Since 2017, a number of households have invested in building homestays to welcome and serve the needs of guests. In addition, there are various types of entertainment services, visiting caves with distinctive styles. Tourists can organize Team Buiding, Incentive, and trekking programs, participate in some folk games such as fishing, rafting, rowing and the activities associated with the daily activities of the people to experience, to learn how to fish, to cook Muong cuisine, to raise cattle, or to explore karst caves or to go to forests to dig ginseng.

Currently, there are a number of community tourism spots attract domestic and international tourists to stop and stay in the tourism area within Hoa Binh lake. Da Bac district has the most community tourism spots with the points of Ke hamlet in Hien Luong commune, Mo Ham village, Da Bia in Tien Phong commune, Sung village in Cao Son commune. In Tan Lac district there is Ngoi hamlet in Suoi Hoa commune. In Cao Phong district there is Tien village in Thung Nai commune, Giang Mo village in Binh Thanh commune ...

 


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