There is one of the world’s best tourist villages in Vietnam

On the afternoon of October 19, 2023, the People’s Committee of Quang Binh province held a press conference to inform about the event: Tan Hoa village, Minh Hoa district was honored by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) as the best tourist village in the world. world in 2023.

Tan Hoa is a commune in Minh Hoa District, Quang Binh Province. For a long time, this place has been known as a place with charming landscapes, with endless limestone mountains embracing vast valleys and endless grasslands. Cutting across the middle of the valley is the gentle, emerald green Rao Nan River, which deposits alluvium into the fields on both sides of the river every time it rains.

Tan Hoa is also famous for the beautiful Tu Lan Cave System, which was chosen as the setting for famous domestic and international films such as: the movie “Immortals” directed by Victor Vu, the movie “Traditional “Theory of Quan Tien” by director Dinh Tuan Vu and the movie “Kong – Skull Island” by director Jordan Vogt-Roberts. We invite you to join Viet Huong Travel to learn about this majestic and equally beautiful land!

Tan Hoa village is nestled between rolling limestone mountains mixed with the picturesque green of rice fields and corn fields. With its majestic, pristine natural landscape and diverse ecosystem, fresh, cool air and long-standing traditional culture of the Nguoi people, Tan Hoa is becoming a new and very attractive tourist destination in Quang Binh. for domestic and foreign tourists.

Minh Hoa is a highland mountainous district located in the northwest of Quang Binh province, with an 89 km border with Laos. Tan Hoa commune is about 10km from Quy Dat town, Minh Hoa district, about 70km from Phong Nha – Ke Bang tourist center.

Tan Hoa village is considered the “flood navel” area of Quang Binh. In 2010, Tan Hoa witnessed a historic flood with water levels rising 12 meters, submerging most houses. Villagers had to evacuate to shelters in caves and cliffs to wait for the water to recede. By 2011, Tan Hoa people had the initiative to make rafts to live with floods. In 2012, they improved it into a floating house model, helping people live normally during floods. By 2023, Tan Hoa will have 620 floating houses built 100% with support from “sponsors”. Currently, Tan Hoa is also developing a flood season tourism experience model.

With the strengths of the famous Tu Lan cave system, along with Oxalis Adventure’s investment in effective exploitation. Tan Hoa also has unique cultural resources from ethnic minorities such as the Nguon people, the fish medicine box (certified at the national level) and the March full moon festival (certified at the provincial level). In addition, the village also has unique cultural practices such as death anniversary to send filial piety to parents as well as other unique spiritual practices.

Tan Hoa is oriented to develop according to the model of a weather-adapted tourist village, providing diverse experiences for tourism from homestays, farming experience, dining at people’s houses, souvenir stalls and in other diverse services for tourists.

This village is an example of rural tourism destinations that offer authentic and diverse experiences for visitors, while creating opportunities and benefits for local people and the environment.

The residents who settled in Tan Hoa land are the Source people. This is a community belonging to the Viet – Muong group of 35 thousand people living in Minh Hoa District, Quang Binh Province. The Source people are not currently recognized as an ethnic group among the ethnic groups of Vietnam. Tan Hoa village has a population of about 3300 people and all of them are Nguon people. The Nguon people have their own unique language, distinct cultural activities and quite rich folk arts values. They live by farming, fishing, hunting and collecting honey. In addition to these occupations, up to now there are still popular natural gathering occupations for daily food such as snail catching, Lao eggplant picking, wild vegetable picking, yam digging, etc.

It is no coincidence that international visitors love and appreciate the key industry of Quang Binh Province. Because for a long time, Quang Binh has emerged as an “adventure tourism capital of Asia”, with world-class adventure tours such as: Exploring Son Doong – the world’s largest cave , Explore Hang En, Explore Hang Va and not to mention the tours to explore the Tu Lan Cave System, located in Tan Hoa Commune, Minh Hoa District, Quang Binh Province.

With a unique cave system including dry caves and water caves, Tu Lan is the departure point for adventure tours ranging in duration from 1 day to 4 days. Unique activities such as swimming to explore the mysterious underground river in the cave; Admire the stalactite system with many colors and different shapes that cannot be found anywhere else in the world; Camping in the middle of the primeval forest next to streams, clear blue lakes or murmuring waterfalls day and night… are experiences that attract tens of thousands of tourists to Tan Hoa every year.

Tan Hoa – a land that fully converges the majesty and magnificence of nature as well as the beauty of the long-standing traditional culture of the Nguoi people, is an extremely attractive tourist destination for domestic and foreign tourists. . On average each year, this land welcomes tens of thousands of tourists to visit and explore adventure tours.

Coming to Tan Hoa, visitors can admire the wild and peaceful beauty of a pure Vietnamese village. Overnight at homestays are floating houses. Integrate into people’s daily lives, experience fishing nets, boating, cycling…

Chat with relatives and drink green tea, enjoy typical rustic but delicious dishes such as fish, steamed rice… Learn about ethnic culture. Source is the name of the ethnic community belonging to the Viet – Muong group . Listen to the legends of the Nguon people who came here to settle down about 300 – 320 years ago, the customs and lyrics of Nguon songs are extremely unique.