Sep
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Traditional culture identity, basis to develop community-based tourism in Lan Village
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(TITC) - Bac Me District (Ha Giang Province), an old land with age-old cultural tradition is famous for excellent culture festivals expressed through customs, production and living of the people. Besides, the nature gifted for Bac Me unique and attractive landscape sites.
To promote strengths and exploit available potentials, Bac Me District has been actively building socio-economic, culture development strategy, of which especially appreciating establishment of community-based tourism culture villages. Lan Village is one of villages in Bac Me District mobilizing effectively available potentials to develop tourism.
Located about 5km to the north east of Bac Me District capital and 50km from Ha Giang City, Lan Village has been recognized as community-based tourism culture village since 25 December 2007. Lan Village is one of 12 villages of Yen Phu Commune with the area of more than 128ha, mainly of which is forests.
To Lan Village, tourist will see a specific culture village with combination of tradition and modernity. Currently, total population of the village is 40 households with 214 people, all of them are Tay ethnic people. Traditional values, ethnic identity here has been kept rather intactly expressed through costumes, jewelry, food and traditional festivals as Long Tong festival, duo of love song and dance, traditional games (du quay, danh sang…)
Tay people concentrate into villages at foot of low mountains. Their typical house is built on high stilts and house’s roof, wall, stilts, stairs are made of wood. Altar of ancestor worship is in the center of house, and family’s activities take place around.
Tay people in Lan Village process dishes harmoniously and uniquely from fresh materials and decorate them according to yin - yang principle. This makes delicious and strange taste for eaters. There are plenty of traditional dishes as thit lon treo gac bep (a kind of pork), thit mam, sticky rice, grilled fishes and especially corn wine.
Besides, the villagers also preserver a lot of specific culture features as then song, coi song, duo of love song… Especially, the tinh (a traditional stringed musical instrument resembling a guitar) is a traditional instrument of Tay people, an indispensable thing in performances of then song.
With these tourism strengths and potentials, it is expected that Lan Village would attract more and more tourist and become an attractive community-based tourism site of Ha Giang in particular and Viet Nam in general.
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Sep
28
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Dak Lak to become key tourism destination in Vietnam
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The Central Highland province of Dak Lak has approved an overall plan for tourism development until 2020 with a vision for 2030.
Accordingly, it will develop tourism into a key economic industry in the hope of becoming a key tourism destination by 2020.
The province has abundant and attractive tourism resources, such as forests, mountains, rivers, lakes, falls, festivities, traditional customs and crafts and historic relics.
In the near future, Dak Lak will focus on developing tourism products and services from elephants, and cultural objects of ethnic minority people, who are blessed with the space of gong culture and Central Highland Epic.
It will encourage all economic sectors to invest in building coffee-related tourism models, as well as conducting tours for visitors to get directly involved in coffee growing, harvesting and processing.
It plans to spend more than VND12,360 billion on developing tourism infrastructure with the aim of attracting more than 560,000 visitors by 2015 and more than 1.129 million by 2020.
Since early this year, the province has received 26,000 visitors, including 2,900 foreigners, earning more than VND24 billion from tourism services.
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Sep
28
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HCM City celebrates Mid-Autumn Festival
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Entertainment venues across Ho Chi Minh City are full of activity these days preparing for exciting events and entertainment programs to mark the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month (September 30).
Suoi Tien Tourist Area in District 9 will offer free entry to children, while Dai Nam Tourist Area in Binh Duong Province will offer 1,000 gifts to kids and is set to lure visitors with musical and dance performances on that day.
Many different activities such as a parade of fairy tale characters, singing and dance shows and kid theatre performances, circus, folk games, kylin and dragon dances will be held at Dam Sen Park in District 11 from September 22-30.
Mid-Autumn Festival will also take place at the HCMC Children’s House with a series of cultural activities from September 28-30, including a lantern making contest, singing contest, performances of art, circus, puppetry, and masquerade.
Children activities like water puppetry, circus, folk games, lantern parade and exhibition, song and dance shows are being organized at the HCMC Youth Cultural House at 23/9 (September 23rd) Park and Labor Cultural Palace in District 1 and Crescent Mall in District 7.
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Hung Yen’s unique Ban soy sauce village
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28/09/2012 09:58:44
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Hanoi International Film Festival attracts outstanding entries
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28/09/2012 09:52:14
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Contemporary dance plays in Hanoi at weekend
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28/09/2012 09:48:04
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Overseas auctions of Vietnam's antiques: good and bad
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28/09/2012 09:39:27
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Khanh Ly to perform in Vietnam in December
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28/09/2012 09:37:47
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Pakistan Film Festival unspools in Ha Noi
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28/09/2012 09:34:56
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Vintage, high performance bikes on show
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28/09/2012 09:33:20
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German Film Festival rolls into town
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28/09/2012 09:31:49
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German Film Festival rolls into town
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28/09/2012 09:22:42
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