About 130 kilometers from Hanoi, the valley Mai Chau (Mai Chau District, Hoa Binh province) is a tourist attracting destination of both international and domestic visitors. Take part in a Mai Chau travel, tourists can feel free to choose a suitable transportation like cars or motorbikes. The journey will be really wonderful as you can have the chances to experience and enjoy the natural beauty of Mai Chau sceneries.
Passing the road junction Muong Khen to Tan Lac town, the Vietnam adventure tour starts off at one of the legendary passes in the Northwest of Vietnam. The pass was named, according to backpackers, Da Trang or Thung Khe pass.
You should stop on the side of the road and enjoy some boiled corns of Muong people, which are their specialties, and also enjoy the fresh air and peaceful surroundings. There is also a small mountainous market here. From there, tourists during their Vietnam adventure can feast their eyes upon the scenery of Thung Khe valley, which is extremely impressive in the harvest time and feel the difference between the climates on the two sides of the mountain slopes.
Passing the Da Trang Pass and continuingly going forward about 5 kilometers until reaching the end of Thung Khe, it is that you have arrived at the destination for the Mai Chau travel. In the spring, Mai Chau is covered with the color of plum and peach blossoms. In the late spring, when peach blossoms fall, the forests and mountains are layered by the fragile color from the white flowers.
In the summer, this place is covered with the green color of trees with a hint of yellow of corn and paddy rice in large fields. Especially, in the late autumn, Mai Chau appears with the golden glorious beauty, creates a stunning sight for tourists in a Vietnam adventure travel. The terraces with ripen rice spread over hill slopes and interweave a range of tilt houses. Sometimes, in the winter, Mai Chau is dusted with the falling snow.
Mai Chau also attracts tourists with its fragile, gentle and friendly impression. Cohabiting in this picturesque space is the beauty of the sociability and integration of different ethnic groups. There are tremendous ethnic groups living here together, outstandingly are the Thai people. They have been here for a long time and have made up their own unique culture to attract tourists to adventure Vietnam. They are known for their friendliness, hospitality and kindness.
Many tourists choose a Mai Chau travel so that they can witness the special techniques of the Thai, from their method of manipulating tools to weaving their brocade clothes. Those are the singular cultural attractions of the Thai Community in Mai Chau. The people gather quite crowdedly here in tilt houses and make up famous community tourist attraction such as Lac, Pom Coong, or Van village.
There are 64 tilt houses built for tourists in Pom Coong village. Under the houses, Thai women are weaving with their looms. These are also the places to sell souvenirs produced by the Thai themselves such as brocade scarves, dress, wallets… There are many delicacies in this local district that you can be served or ask for in your Vietnam adventure holidays tour,outstandingly is a tasty wine made of sticky rice, some kinds of forest herbs and ginger.
Before entering a Thai house, tourists will be asked to wash their hands according to the custom here. The house owner will invite you to sit on the mat in the center of the house and enjoy a meal with the fragrant wine and delicious specialties of the region such as chicken with sour bamboo shoots, steamed spring fish, stirred bitter bamboo shoots, sticky rice, buffalo meat… At dinner, as a part of Mai Chau homestay services, there are interesting activities held by the local people with fun songs and dances. You should also try a special dish of Mai Chau which is made of sticky rice contained in a clean white bamboo tube boiled in coconut water.
There are also many other beautiful relics, archaeological places and landscapes to explore in a Mai Chau travel that attract tremendous tourists to come and spend their time here. The stunning Mai Chau valley with the gorgeous natural sights, impressive and colorful sceneries will be poetic beautiful pictures of the mountainous when you visit it. There is nothing to regret about such kind of tour to a cultural and interesting place like Mai Chau.
