The culture house of Tien village, Thung Nai
commune (Cao Phong) is a place for community cultural activities of the local
people.
As a lakeside village near Hoa Binh
Lake, there are 150 households living, over 90% of them are Muong ethnic
people. At present, the local people still keep the traditional cultural
activities of the ethnic minority and more than 50% of households keep
traditional stilt houses. Currently, the 435 Road to the hamlet is being
upgraded and expected to be completed in 2020. This will be a condition for
local people and visitors to travel more favorably. In addition, the village
with the advantage of waterway can connect with other community tourism
villages, such as Ke village, Hiep Luong commune, Da Bia village, Tien Phong
commune (Da Bac); Ngoi Hamlet, Ngoi Hoa commune (Tan Lac) and other tourist
islands on Hoa Binh Lake. With these tourism potentials, Tien village has been
implemented to build the model of community tourism village since May 2017 by
the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
In order to help local people in accessing,
familiarizing and developing community-based tourism, through training courses
on tourism skills organized by the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism,
the village has sent 5 qualified households for doing homestay business to go
for training, fostering knowledge about homestay. Recently, the Department of
Culture, Sports and Tourism has held a training course on marketing methods and
promotion of destinations in 2018 in Tien village. There were 30 households in
Thung Nai and Binh Thanh participating, 21 households of which were from Tien
village in Thung Nai commune. Mr. Bui Van Kien, a villager of Tien village,
said: "To attend training courses on marketing and promotion of tourism
destinations, I heard instructions on basic methods and skills on marketing and
promotion of tourist destinations, tourism development in association with
exploitation, protection of natural resources and environment. Especially, I
also learned the way to build products to introduce, market and promote tourist
sites in a scientific and basic way. This helps me and the local households in
the village to approach, understand more about tourism, from which we have
orientation to develop local tourism effectively and sustainably.
With fresh space, beautiful, attractive
natural scenery, after successful construction of community tourism village,
visitors to visit, experience in Tien village is not only explore the local
culture, get to know the traditional customs, architecture of houses and the
life of local people, but also enjoy the national cuisine such as hill
chickens, stream fish, bamboo shoots, Can wine, Hoang wine, etc. Especially,
they can experience local activities of production and living with local people
and can link tours to visit other community tourism villages, caves and islands
on Hoa Binh Lake.