Three green villages suitable for spring travel

Sin Suoi Ho Village, Phong Tho District, Lai Chau Province

Sin Suoi Ho Village is located in Sin Suoi Ho Commune, about 30 km from Lai Chau City and at an altitude of nearly 1,500 m above sea level, at the foot of Son Bac May Mountain. In 2015, Sin Suoi Ho was recognized as a community tourism village. The village is increasingly attracting visitors thanks to its fresh, clean space and new tourism methods. In 2022 and 2023, the village will welcome about 30,000 visitors, including many international visitors from 15 countries such as the US, Australia, and Canada.

Sin Suoi Ho is a village inhabited mainly by the Mong ethnic group. The village aims to develop high-quality tourism, so visitors are asked not to give money or candy to children. Adults in the village do not drink alcohol, gamble or smoke. The village is clean, the paths are full of trees and flowers, visitors feel like they are lost in a flower garden. There are many signs and garbage collection points in the village, helping to keep the village clean and tidy.

Thanks to the fresh, cool climate and unique cultural identity, the people have strongly developed community tourism. Currently, Sin Suoi Ho has more than 20 households running homestays, each homestay has a welcome gate and wooden sign. Those who do not have the conditions will raise pigs, raise chickens, and grow vegetables to provide food for tourists.

In Sin Suoi Ho village, there is a coffee shop with a beautiful view. The owner is a young man from the South who came to the village for tourism and fell in love with a local ethnic girl. He stayed and opened this coffee shop.

Lo Lo Chai village, Dong Van district, Ha Giang province

Lo Lo Chai village is about 1.5 km from Lung Cu flagpole, a place that still preserves many traditional cultural features through the Lo Lo people's many-generation rammed earth houses. In early 2022, Lo Lo Chai was recognized as a Cultural Tourism Village. Over the past two years, the government and people have gradually worked together to make tourism more professional and effective. The number of tourists coming to the village is increasing day by day.

Lo Lo Chai has 119 households with 542 people, of which 42 households run homestays and 5 households open restaurants. The busiest day is 700-800 visitors, usually on weekends, holidays and Tet.

In the village, the houses still retain the Lo Lo people's architecture, which is a rammed earth house with three-sided walls, and a gate and fence made of hand-laid stones. To make it suitable for tourism, the households have renovated and added a closed toilet facility, convenient for tourists to eat, stay, and live without affecting the exterior and overall architecture.

Tan Hoa village, Minh Hoa commune, Quang Binh province

Tan Hoa was honored by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) as the "World's Best Tourist Village" in 2023. This is the "flood center" of Quang Binh, which experienced a historic flood in 2020, with water levels rising 12 meters, submerging most houses. Villagers had to evacuate to caves and cliffs for shelter.

In 2011, Tan Hoa people had the initiative to build rafts to live with the floods. In 2012, they improved it into a floating house model, helping people to live normally during the floods. In 2023, Tan Hoa had 620 floating houses built 100% from sponsorship money. Since developing tourism, Tan Hoa has changed a lot, life has improved, the village is more beautiful, and people's income has increased.

Tan Hoa is oriented to develop according to the model of a tourist village that adapts to the weather, providing experiences such as homestay, farming, eating at local houses, and selling souvenirs. Currently, Tan Hoa has a model of experiencing tourism during the flood season.

Tan Hoa community tourism site is increasingly known as the starting point for famous cave conquests such as Tu Lan and Hang Tien. In Tan Hoa, visitors can also experience ATV off-road vehicles.