Community-based tourism: Discovering ethnic identities in Ai hamlet

7/17/2017 - 10:32:12 AM

(HBO) - Ai hamlet in Tan Lac district’s Phong Phu commune is a typical village of the Muong ethnic minority group. It has been recognised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as a hamlet where has preserved Muong intangible and tangible cultural heritages. The locality now becomes an attractive destination for foreign and domestic visitors.

Visiting Ai hamlet, tourists feel like being at home as they are welcomed by hospitable local people and enabled to visit traditional stilt houses.

Visitors can joint local residents in their daily activities, such as growing rice and vegetables, planting trees, fishing, rearing animals, making alcohol, cooking traditional dishes, making crafts and weaving textiles.

These activities form part of community-based tourism in the hamlet, which has recently attracted a large number of holiday-makers.

Photos display Ai village’s unique beauty, abundant activities and feelings of tourists.

Foreign visitors are captured by romantic and natural landscapes.

Friendly, hospitable Ai villagers.

Home-stay service is on the rise in the hamlet..

Preserving cultural features embodied in the daily life of local residents is a highlight of community-based tourism in the hamlet..

Du Tourists go sightseeing and learn how to cook in Ai hamlet..

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