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Get a view of Shan Tuyet tea in Phin Ho
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(TITC) - Phin Ho Village, about 36 km from the center of Hoang Su Phi District has the area of 77 ha and is home to 44 households with 238 Dao people. As a most remote mountainous village in Thong Nguyen Commune, but Phin Ho Village is one of most richest villages in the commune, because villagers exploited available potentials and strengths to develop economy and built a community-based tourism culture village combining with new rural development.
Most specific feature of Phin Ho Village is hundreds-year-old Shan Tuyet tea trees. Thanks to favor of the nature, climate in Phin Ho is cool and fresh around year. Together with abundant water resource, these are good conditions for development of tea trees.
The village has a total of nearly 50 ha of 50 to 150-year-old Shan Tuyet tea trees. The old Shan Tuyet tea trees attached with the villagers since they were born, so each villager always has awareness of preserving and considers Shan Tuyet teas as an indispensable culture feature of Dao people in Phin Ho Village. Be preserved, cared and grown on the mountain covered by cloud all year, so quality of tea leaves are always delicious and pure. Thanks to these features, Shan Tuyet tea has been well-known for a long time.
Tea leaves are often harvested in the spring because in this time, tea buds are purest and have deepest flavor.
Traditional culture in Phin Ho has been kept intactly, such as fire dance festival of Red Dao people held in the first lunar month. Besides, Dao people in Phin Ho also preserve many other traditional features as cap sac festival (for adult men), duo of love song, traditional dances…
With its own specific products, Phin Ho has many advantages to become a typical community-based tourism culture village combining with new rural development. This will be basis to make Phin Ho become an attractive destination and improve the lives of local people.
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Oct
15
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Can Tho city organized Segne Dolta festival
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More than 500 Khmer Buddhist monks and their compatriots in the Mekong River Delta gathered at a meeting organised by the Southwest Steering Committee in Can Tho city on October 10 to mark the Sene Dolta Festival 2012.
On behalf of the Party and State, Steering Committee Deputy Head Huynh Minh Doan congratulated all the Khmer people in the southwest region on the occasion.
The Committee also called on Khmer people and monks to uphold their patriotism and solidarity, contribute further to national development, and continue the struggle to disable hostile forces attempting to cause social unrest in the country.
The lives of Khmer people have improved considerably over the past few years. The number of poor Khmer households has decreased by 3-4% annually and nearly 80% of households now have access to electricity and clean water.
So far, more than 105,000 houses have also been built for underprivileged Khmer households in the southwestern region.
Sene Dolta is one of the largest Khmer festivals commemorating and paying tribute to their ancestors and predecessors who established and developed the Khmer community.
On the occasion, the Steering Committee presented Sene Dolta gifts to monks, nuns and Buddhist venerables representing 13 Mekong Delta cities and provinces.
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Oct
15
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Beautiful Ninh Binh province with mountains
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VietNamNet Bridge – Tired after a busy week, I went to rejuvenate at Emeralda Ninh Binh Resort, a perfect place at the edge of the Van Long Nature Reserve, about 90km south of the capital.
Van Long Nature Reserve is a flooded field surrounded by limestone mountains.
A boat trip is an ideal way to witness its wild beauty.
The reserve in Ninh Binh Province is a primeval tropical forest with spectacularly shaped limestone mountains surrounding the north's largest wetland, an area described as an "inland Ha Long Bay".
Instead of western style resort rooms, Emeralda's have traditional Vietnamese timber materials and furnishings, plus a private courtyard and outdoor shower.
But the highlight of the place was the warm-hearted staff who cared for my family. They did their best to help us enjoy our stay. All of them were gracious and smiling. One of my friends said they had the character of rural residents: plain, helpful and enthusiastic.
Following information on a leaflet left in our room, we decided to take a tour to the Van Long Reserve. About five minutes walk from the resort is a dyke from where we boarded a boat for a 45- minute tour around the reserve. We admired the wild beauty while our boatwoman, Vu Thi Tam, gave us a commentary.
The reserve is home to more than 450 plant species and nearly 40 animal species, including the rare Delacour's langur and the belostoma, a nearly extinct insect species.
The water surface is dotted with wild flowers of different colours. When I tried to take a water lily, Tam stopped me.
She said the area had remained beautiful because of a united effort of local people and tourists. Since it became a tourist destination in 1998 people quickly learnt how to protect it and popularise conservation among all visitors, she said.
Suddenly Tam pointed towards a high promontory where some Delacour's langurs sat on the peak. They looked tiny from a distance but Tam said we were lucky because the primate did not appear often and there were very few of them left.
Next to our boat, some South Korean tourists were even luckier, because they had a digital single-lens reflex camera that helped them watch the langurs clearly before taking photos.
One of them said happily: "I took pictures, they are beautiful."
Emeralda Ninh Binh Resort offers local architecture
that gives guests the feeling they are staying in the real
countryside environment of Viet Nam.
The cruise took us past ranges of splendid rocky mountains and such was the peaceful, tranquil atmosphere that we could hear the sounds of whisking fish, flying birds and moving oars.
Tam steered us to a beautiful cave which she said was about 250m depth. Though we couldn't get more than several metres into the cave because it was half submerged and the water-plants were too thick, we could see many magnificent stalactites and stalagmites inside.
This was only one of several caves in the area surrounded by walls of mountains.
Back to the dyke, we borrowed two bicycles from the resort to take a short tour, passing between towering limestone peaks, rice fields, lotus flower ponds and local villages.
We paused for a rest under the shade of a banyan tree where three old men were playing Chinese chess. They offered us cups of tea and talked with us and one teased my five-year-old son, like a grandfather.
Later we saw a family bailing out water from their fish pond and my son jumped into the mud to catch some. He came out dirty, but all the better for the experience he would never get in the city.
We ended our tour at the indoor swimming pool of the resort, tired but relaxed, and looking forward to more of the same the next day.
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Rakugo Comedy don't need tickets
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15/10/2012 08:42:24
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EVENTS SCHEDULED FOR SEPT. 15-30 (daily updated)
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15/10/2012 08:40:34
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Italian novelist Gianrico Carofiglio with the meeting of Vietnamese
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15/10/2012 08:39:19
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Relaxing ride around town
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15/10/2012 08:37:28
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Review the $2.8mil movie for Hanoi’s 1000th anniversary
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15/10/2012 08:35:40
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City museum with 200 photographers’ works
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15/10/2012 08:33:40
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The first Vietnamese action-fantasy is created by Dustin Nguyen
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15/10/2012 08:31:18
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Hanoi host African Film Festival
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15/10/2012 08:19:42
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Norway to help Myanmar manage tourist
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15/10/2012 08:18:08
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