Pa Vi Ha Community Cultural Tourism Village 100% of the people in the village are Mong people. In addition, what attracts visitors is that the culture of the Mong people here is still preserved from house architecture, cuisine, costumes to traditional folklore… Hmong community tourist area in Meo Vac In the cultural village, there is also a cultural house of Meo Vac district, which is considered as a conservation and promotion area for Mong ethnic culture. Visitors here can learn more about the cultural traditions of the Mong people. Even many Hmong tourists from other localities also come to enjoy and better understand the traditional culture of their people. In this village, there are 28 households participating in infrastructure investment and putting into use houses according to the model of Mong ethnic group with architectural design of wooden frame houses, walls and roofs with 2-storey yin and yang tiles. The houses built according to the traditional Hmong house architecture are adjacent to each other and most develop the Homestay service, serving tourists to visit and experience. Room rental rates vary depending on location. Community room ranges from 150 to 200,000 VND/person per night. Single room is about 400 – 550 thousand VND/night depending on the time. In addition, visitors coming here can also enjoy the traditional dishes of the Mong people cooked at the Homestay itself. The entrance to Pa Vi Ha community tourist area. The climate here is very specific and unique. The average annual temperature is about 18 degrees Celsius with a winter lasting up to 8-9 months and there seems to be no hot season. Especially, from December of last year to February of the following year is the coldest time of the year, the lowest temperature can drop below 0 degrees Celsius. The winter is so cold, but the summer is short, only 2-3 months with an average of 19 – 23 degrees Celsius. The weather conditions in the H’Mong ethnic minority culture and tourism village, Pa Vi Ha village make us feel connected. Think about the small Da Lat in Ha Giang. Ms. Thu Hong, a tourist from Hanoi, shared that she often follows the Ha Giang tourism community and has heard a lot of compliments about the community-based cultural and tourism village at the foot of Ma Pi Leng pass. Ms. Hong came here and had the opportunity to experience: “I really feel lost in stories and movies that I’ve seen. The architecture of the house is decorated with yin and yang tiles, creating a cool, very cool atmosphere. easy to sleep, suitable for those who want to relax. The dishes are also very strange such as thang co, meat hanging in the kitchen … attractive to tourists.” In particular, Ms. Hong is very fond of the dances of spreading flowers and the sound of the H’mong boys. Anh Quang – owner of a Homestay shared: when the district party committee had a policy to develop community tourism, he signed up to participate immediately, contributing to the economic development of the locality. Initially, it was estimated that the construction cost would be about 700 million VND, supported by loans. However, during the construction process, Mr. Quang was also capitalized, the total investment cost was more than 2 billion VND. In the early days of construction, it was very difficult, sometimes he wanted to give up, but thinking about the long-term, he had to “stab and follow”. After that, when he completed the homestay and started to have tenants, he was temporarily relieved. However, the operation time was not long before it was caught in the epidemic, so business was also difficult. If there were foreign tourists in the past, now Quang only welcomes domestic tourists. On average, weekends are usually full and there are customers who order food at the restaurant. Mr. Quang said that in order to ensure that according to the motto “please come, please go”, my family and other households in the village always adhere to the standards of friendliness, price transparency, and hygiene. environment in the stages of dining and experience…

Many visitors enjoy the beautiful nature of Ha Giang. Photo: Ha Giang tourism By 2020, the number of visitors to the province will reach over 1.5 million, reaching a turnover of about VND 1,500 billion from tourism activities, making an important contribution to consolidating the strategic position of the province for the provinces and cities in the country. nationwide, attracting many investors to Ha Giang, contributing to creating livelihoods for people to eradicate poverty. The province has stepped up the development of cultural and tourist community villages, creating jobs for thousands of workers, and raising incomes for rural people. Since then, people have also consciously preserved traditional cultural values, tourism resources, embellished campus, housing, and clean environment; Traditional craft villages have been restored and preserved, natural landscape has been improved. Comrade Nguyen Hong Hai, Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Ha Giang province, said that in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic, last year, Ha Giang tried to turn challenges into development opportunities, focusing on promoting tourism promotion aimed at the domestic tourist market, branding a safe destination for tourists, and building tourism stimulus programs. Ha Giang has also built a diversified, plentiful and attractive tourism product, spread evenly over 4 seasons in a year. Create conditions for tourism businesses to bring tourists to Ha Giang. And most importantly, in development, Ha Giang still maintains an important goal of preserving the protection of natural resources and the environment towards the goal of sustainable development. However, he also frankly acknowledged the weaknesses and shortcomings that need to be overcome: the investment in infrastructure was not synchronous, the human resource was insufficient and did not meet the development needs, products and services. not rich, diversified, lack of entertainment centers, accommodation services for middle and high-class guests … Tourists learn traditional culture of Lo Lo ethnic group in Meo Vac. Photo: hagiang.gov.vn In order for Ha Giang tourism to continue to develop and successfully implement the Resolution of the Congress of the Provincial Party Committee for the term 2020-2025 on tourism development, from the beginning of this year, Ha Giang’s tourism industry organized a welcoming program. the first visitors to Ha Giang, organizing many cultural events, rich tourism, imbued with local ethnic identities; maintain and restore unique festivals of indigenous people such as the Tày people’s association of Cage Tong; The Cao Cao Association of the Mong people; Khèn Mong Association; Khau Vai love market; Cu Te Association of La Chi people; boat racing festival; Fire Jump Festival. In addition, the province also enlisted the support of the General Department of Tourism, Mobifone Telecommunication Corporation, and signed a memorandum of cooperation on tourism development and digital transformation. Especially the application of digital technology in tourism promotion activities. Not only focusing on the places endowed by nature, Ha Giang has also been building an image of Ha Giang more and more beautiful with a brilliant spring with flowers all over the high mountains, on the slopes of gray stone, Summer comes back with terraced fields and waves to match the pouring season, autumn with yellow color and terraced rice fields, sea of ​​clouds on top of Chieu Lau Thi – Hoang Su Phi and a romantic winter with immense triangles … According to Mr. Tran Duc Quy, Vice Chairman of Ha Giang Provincial People’s Committee, with the goal that by 2025 Ha Giang will attract 3 million tourists, the province is focusing on improving the quality of human resources to promote tourism. development; to attach importance to preserving, restoring and promoting the typical cultural values ​​of the Mong people and actively replicating them among ethnic minorities; raise community awareness about conservation and development of typical cultures of ethnic groups; focus on building cultural villages with ethnic characteristics in order of priority to key regions; mobilize resources for restoration and heritage conservation; continue to develop unique tourism products based on cultural heritage potentials… /.