This banana rarely flowers, the flower is very big green nuggets, has few fruits but many seeds. This is an interesting destination with an extremely diverse ecosystem, wild nature, and a system of winding rivers and streams that are precarious between rocky snouts, giving this place a wonderful and attractive natural picture. The banana tree is probably too familiar to Vietnamese people, but few people know about the lonely banana tree. The road to Phuoc Binh National Park has a lot of forest bananas on both sides. Bananas on the roadside, bananas on the mountainside, low places and high places, the leaves fluttering in the sky. Perhaps this area is suitable for bananas, so the trunk is 20-25cm big, 3-4m high, the chamber is 6-7 inches long, all fruits are round and fat. Standing from afar, I saw hundreds of banana flowers dangling bright red. It is said that bananas in Phuoc Binh supply the whole city of Phan Rang and are the main source of income for the Raglai people who are currently living in this area. Bananas here are called “lonely” bananas, with a lotus-shaped chamber, this type of banana only grows alone, not in clusters, so it is called “lonely banana”. Lonely banana trees (also known as seed bananas, orphan bananas) are different from other banana varieties: from banana stems to banana flowers and fruits, they are also very unique. Local people said, the strange thing of this banana variety from germination by seed to flowering chamber does not produce seedlings. When the fruit is ripe, the tree will wither and die. Lonely bananas are completely grown in the wild, the tree grows all year round. This banana tree only grows in high mountain areas, usually ripe seeds falling to the ground meet good conditions and the tree will grow, develop and bear fruit. From sprouting to fruit harvesting takes about 2-2.5 years. Lonely bananas are used to treat kidney disease, kidney stones, diabetes, back pain, joint pain, erectile dysfunction, enhance men’s health, cool down, stomach disease, ringworm, stimulate digestion, tonic. kidney, diuretic, treatment of poor appetite, poor sleep, fever, constipation, tonifying the body… People here take banana seeds soaked in wine to drink very delicious and fragrant and are very popular with tourists when coming here to enjoy. Visitors all say that this wine is very special, has the aroma of bananas without losing the taste of wine, when drinking once, you will remember it forever. Come once to Phuoc Binh National Park in Bac Ai district, Ninh Thuan province to enjoy this local “specialty”.

Ponagar tower seen from Cai river, Nha Trang. (Photo: Tien Minh / VNA) Khanh Hoa has long been identified as one of the major island and service tourism centers of the country, a land with a long and unique history of marine culture and history of Vietnam. Many interesting landscapes, beautiful and natural beaches are evenly distributed in the three bays of Van Phong, Cam Ranh, Nha Trang and on the islands creating its own identity. Island Tourism , becoming a brand known to visitors from far and wide. However, Khanh Hoa also has the potential to build new and equally interesting tourism products, becoming “breakfast meals”, “snacks” for the whole vacation, tourist’s visit, Next to “main course” is island tourism. Potential for community tourism Not only has many famous sights about the sea and islands, Khanh Hoa is also a place to keep many long-standing cultural traditions, unique architectural works such as the legendary Ponagar Tower with a history of thousands of years, Dien ancient citadel Khanh, famous scientific research institutions such as: Institute of Oceanography, Pasteur Institute Nha Trang – associated with memorials about the life and career of scientist Alexandre Yersin. Khanh Hoa is a culturally diverse locality with many customs and folk festivals such as: The Fisherman Festival, the Thap Ba Festival, the Raglai’s Grave Festival has been recognized as an Intangible Heritage. National level… Rural and upland areas with ethnic minorities have been preserved, preserved and brought into play almost intact with traditional costumes, activities, culinary culture, festivals, music, folk songs, folk dance and the way of producing some handicrafts have created specific cultural values. In addition, the natural ecosystem of rivers, streams, rapids and lagoons creates an interesting and wild natural landscape. Mr. Tran Viet Trung – Director of Khanh Hoa Provincial Department of Tourism affirmed that the province has favorable conditions to develop tourism in association with the community – tourism is developed on the basis of cultural values. of the community, managed, exploited and benefited by the residential community. In recent years, Khanh Hoa tourism has developed quite strongly, the number of tourists and revenue increased quite high in the period 2016-2019 when the total number of guests staying was over 23 million, of which international tourists reached 9, 55 million turns. Tourism revenue in the period 2016-2019 of Khanh Hoa increased more than 26% per year. Particularly, 2019 is the “golden age” of Khanh Hoa tourism, tourism revenue reaches 27,100 billion VND, contributing to the total product in the province (GRDP) reached over 12%. However, according to estimates, Khanh Hoa only receives about 10,000 visitors / year from the exploitation of the community based tourism, revenue from services and community tourism is estimated at only 30 billion VND / year; attract not many labors in rural areas and villages to participate in tourism services in the community. Although any local government also highly values ​​the prospects and effectiveness of the community tourism , such as contributing to creating stable jobs for local workers and shifting leisure time to professions, opening up services for tourism development … but for a long time, districts, towns, cities the city has not had the orientation and proper investment to develop this field. It can be determined that the CBT in Khanh Hoa develops not commensurate with its potentials and advantages, lacks investment, and the tourism product is monotonous, and lacks really new and attractive products. Along with that is limited service quality, weak tourism infrastructure, insufficient and weak tourism human resources, coordination between levels, sectors and localities in tourism management and development. This area lacks coherence and uniformity; Awareness about community based tourism development is not high … Another important reason is that the investment attraction and financial support for the CBT are still limited, not meeting the requirements of this type of tourism development. New idea for community based tourism Currently, the number of tour operators in Khanh Hoa province taking visitors to the community tourism destinations is too small, only 4-5 businesses. Recently, Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu Huong, a tourist from Ward 8, Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City, said: “My whole family has come to Nha Trang for a trip, the past few days have joined the tour to enjoy the bay. Nha Trang beach, mud bath, enjoying all kinds of fresh seafood My family wants to learn something more at sea, but I have not heard of, nor do I know a tourist destination associated with the community in the area. mountains for example. ” With the view of developing the community based tourism together with the protection of natural resources and the environment, conservation and promotion of national cultural values, Khanh Hoa is diversifying new tourism forms and products. to attract tourists and prolong the stay of tourists. The province promotes the values ​​of rural and mountainous areas, giving priority to ecotourism, history, traditional craft villages …; build a number of policies to support community tourism development in the province. Ms. Nguyen Thi Le Thanh – Deputy Director of Khanh Hoa Tourism Department said: “We are collecting opinions from agencies, units and individuals on the content to form a number of mechanisms and policies. support the development of community tourism in the province; conduct field surveys and collect opinions of local authorities on the construction of community tourism spots in the province. ” In the short term, Khanh Hoa tourism is expected to prioritize and focus on supporting investment and development in 4 localities: Ninh Hoa town, Dien Khanh district, two mountainous districts of Khanh Vinh and Khanh Son – places where tourist destinations are located. active community calendar. Thereby, the province hopes to improve its ability to attract and well serve the needs of tourists, create highlights, a number of pilot models of community tourism in the area in the period of 2021-2025. Hat-stacking profession in Khanh Hoa. (Source: Khanh Hoa Newspaper) The necessary policies in this plan are to support the construction and development of tourism products and services to attract the participation of the residential community. Some specific initial support items such as installation of signs, signposts to guide the way to community tourism attractions; renovate toilets, support equipment for homestay establishments to serve tourists; support male and female Raglai traditional costumes for the performing arts team in mountainous areas, support the entertainment team to promote and perform the Bai Hut performance of the local coastal area … In addition, Khanh Hoa also supports the training and fostering of knowledge and skills to serve tourists for individuals and households in the community to participate in providing tourism, relaxation and sightseeing services. It is expected that Khanh Hoa province will invest more than 13 billion VND from the state budget to implement these policies. According to the management representative’s assessment People’s Committee of Khanh Hoa province Some mountainous and coastal districts in the province have successfully built a number of community-based tourism models, but the spread is not high, not known by provincial tourists, mainly from visitors. neighboring districts. Every year, the People’s Committees of districts have not allocated a separate budget for tourism promotion and promotion, so the implementation of propaganda and promotion in the locality is still difficult. Therefore, the Provincial People’s Committee is considering a solution to support funding for each district to implement the above request. Khanh Hoa is already a destination for island tourism but as Mr. Nguyen Duc Chi – Chairman of Crystal Bay Group shares a destination with many different ecosystems that will provide visitors with different experiences, enrich their itinerary. It is also a way to create a special attraction, attracting tourists when coming to Khanh Hoa./.

Red-eyed carp are raised by many households in streams, with high economic efficiency. A villager in the commune said that he had an affinity with this fish farming. Once he visited a friend in Sa Pa district, Lao Cai province, he saw that people here raise fish in a stream a lot, with little maintenance costs, and easy to sell. When he returned, from the water in the stream near his house, which flowed all year round, he started to raise fish. He chose the rocky slot and dug 4 fishponds with a total area of ​​up to 5,000 m2. In the midst of a pond, he worked more to bring water from the stream. The fingerlings were bought by him from hatcheries, including simple tilapia, carp, grass carp, etc., so the quality of seeds is always guaranteed. In Sin Thau commune, people raise fish entirely on elephant grass, banana leaves, maize and pureed cassava, without using pellets or industrial bran. Therefore, the quality of commercial fish here always ensures the clean element, firm meat, which is favored by many people inside and outside the region. Some households earn more than 200 million VND a year from fish farming taking advantage of the stream flow. But in Khanh Hoa province, where for many generations of Raglai people, T’rin people only know how to catch stream fish, hunt porcupines, and now there are suddenly fish farms with “nationality” all over Europe and Australia . It is a life-changing story in Son Thai commune, Khanh Phu, Khanh Vinh mountainous district. Going to Da Tay mountain area, beside Se Ooc stream (Son Thai commune), visiting Khanh Vinh cold water fish farm, everyone was excited. Between the four mountains and forests, dozens of large and small aquariums with 6,000m2 of water surface to raise sturgeon, snow grouper look very superficial. According to the farm’s technical manager, the cod grouper is a luxury fish, specializing in cold water living in Australia, but brought here still to live well. This farm also breeds sturgeon. The fish here grew faster than the fish raised in Da Lat. Sturgeon in Da Lat raised from 15 to 18 months to be sold, but here only 12 months, the fish had enough weight to bring to the market. Also in Khanh Phu commune, beside the winding Yang Gang, the fish farm of more than 1 ha is leaning against Treo hill (New hamlet), the scene is also very interesting. The fish farm seems to fall into a valley, far from residential areas, but close to the stream, with an area of ​​10,000m2 of water surface. Starting in 2018, the fish are in good season, grow well and give high income. Currently, each kg of fish sold at the source is more than 200,000 VND, about 10 tons of fish per month for sale. Farmers said that in order to get results today, people have gone through many difficulties. At the time of stocking, everything was favorable, the fish grew quickly. But in the first season, when it was ready to sell (each one from 1.6 kg – 1.7 kg), it suddenly died in mass. The fish farmer was shocked. But if they stop, all enthusiasm is considered to be dissolved into smoke. In the end, we gathered and reworked and then learned from experience, so the following cases all gave good results. Raising fish in streams is the most difficult, unfortunately, when it comes to sudden floods. At that time, it was very difficult to protect the fish from overflowing. Therefore, during the rainy season, fish farmers have to take turns “on duty”, if the rain is heavy and the water rises, they must immediately notify everyone to take care of them. The streams are still the same for thousands of generations, but if you have determination, have capital, learn experience and techniques, fish farming here will bring a great source of income.