Like ‘Sapa of Thanh’, with a cool year-round climate, Pảban village in the buffer zone of Pu Luong Nature Reserve, Ba Thuoc district (Thanh Hoa) is currently promoting its strength, becoming an attractive destination. guide for tourists when they want to experience the form of community tourism.
A residential area in Ba Thuoc district for tourism development. Photo: Nguyen Nam / VNA Passing the roads with the wild and majestic natural landscape, the Pảban village gradually appears with the folds of stilt houses nestled peacefully on the green hills. The road leading to the village is winding like a soft silk, one side is a cliff, the other is a gentle abyss with terraced fields covered with green rice, girls … All evocative giving visitors a strange feeling of peace when leaving the hustle and bustle of the city. In a traditional house on stilts of the Muong Pả people, Mr. Hoang Xuan Hai – the first person to lay the foundation for the community-based tourism in Paban cheerfully: In Pảban, the Muong make up 95%, the rest are the Thai and other ethnic groups. They live mainly on cultivation, husbandry, and go to the forest to exploit forest products, so their economy is not well off. Realizing the potential for tourism development here, since 2009, Mr. Hai had an idea that he would “entice” people to participate in community tourism, step by step “awakening” the tourism potential here. thereby creating more jobs and income for the ethnic minorities. After 10 years of incubation and planning, in 2019 when everything is ready, Mr. Hai begins with the people in laying the first foundation for Pảban community tourism with the Palm House Community Tourist House. When the project is completed, Mr. Hai has not yet rushed to welcome guests, but has reserved space for local people to do community activities, and then step by step guide his relatives how to do tourism. In the early days, there were also many difficulties, because villagers have been used to plowing and hoe for a long time, so the concept of doing “community tourism” is still too strange. However, seeing the available potentials and benefits brought from tourism development, people are very excited, united, unanimous, hard to learn. Only after a short time, people have grasped the basic knowledge to welcome and serve guests; know, present the rice tray with bold national cultural identity but still ensure the criteria of deliciousness, food hygiene and safety … Mr. Ngan Xuan Bach, a Paban said: Now, the concept of “community based tourism” is no longer unfamiliar to the people in the village. Coming to Pảban, visitors will enjoy the fresh, cool climate, and interesting natural scenery. Tourists will have nights of campfire, drinking canola wine, cultural exchanges and enjoying the dances of Muong and Thai people; immersed in dance songs imbued with national identity. In addition, indigenous people will act as a tour guide to introduce the wild beauty and traditional cultural values of the Muong and Thai Paban people; lead tourists to visit other neighboring villages in Pu Luong Nature Reserve if tourists wish to explore the rich ecosystem of mountains and forests; visiting Thanh Son’s specialty orange and mandarin gardens; experience production labor activities as well as daily life with indigenous people … Ms. Kieu Thi Phien, a tourist from Thanh Hoa city shared: “Ba Thuoc district is famous for eco-tourism areas of Pu Luong, Ban Hieu (Co Lung commune), Bang village, Kho Muong village (commune Thanh Son) and Don village (Thanh Lam commune)… These are places that I have visited and had very interesting experiences. Pu Luong natural reserve to experience community based tourism Although it has not been invested much, but with the wild natural scenery, fresh climate, the people are friendly and still keep the old stilt houses and old stilt houses. ethnic cultural values, I believe that Pảban will be an attractive destination for tourists next time when coming to Thanh “. 
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