Ba Vi green tourism

The best tourist attractions for agricultural experience in Ba Vi include Dong Que Farm (Ba Vi Homestead), Green Farm Joint Stock Cooperative, Ba Vi Cow, Grassland Research Center in Van Hoa commune, Gia Trinh eco-farm, or Happy farm in Yen Bai commune. In each of these places, visitors can participate in traditional agricultural production systems, enjoy natural specialties, and have the opportunity to participate directly in agricultural tourism activities imbued with Vietnamese countryside cultures. These activities are growing rice, catching fish with bamboo tools, planting and picking wild and herbal vegetables, observing the honey-making process, nature pick and star dry tea, feeding the ostriches, goats, rabbits, cows, etc.

Ba Vi has a great density of historical and cultural relics associated with the names of national heroes and great personalities like Saint Tan Vien Son or President Ho Chi Minh. The honorable list mentions the temple of President Ho Chi Minh on the top of Ba Vi mountain, the K9 relic site, Thuong temple's relics cluster, Trung temple, Ha temple, Tay Dang communal house, Chu Quyen Hall communal house, Thuy Phieu communal house, etc. With a system of recognized monuments, Ba Vi tourism promises many cultural and spiritual tourist attractions towards tourists.

Nearly 100 years ago, from 1932 to 1944, the French built a town and a resort on Ba Vi mountain and divided them into a cluster of sectors. Coste 400 contains enormous pine forests and green lawns, while coste 600 remains the ruins of the French's great architectural works. In coste 800, if you take a right turn and forge yourself through a steep slope and a tight turn - you will come across the ruins of a church and beautiful unspoiled resort villas. Nearly 200 ruins built by the French now remain in ruined mossy walls scattered among the mountains and forests of Ba Vi. The place is the destination of many photographers and young people who love to explore and take photos.

In addition, Ba Vi district provides tourists with many specialty services, mentioning healthcare services in Ao King tourism such as herbal medicine bath service or traditional medicine and healthcare treatment. Also, there is "Ba Vi's Muong - Dao fair" festival in which visitors can experience Ba Vi's Muong - Dao culture through numerous activities: Village elders' water-carry custom in the early spring, learning about the ethnic culinary culture, Muong gong culture, the ancient calendar of Muong ethnic people, etc. Other experience activities include participating in agricultural experience (visiting tea gardens and medicinal gardens of the Dao ethnic group) at Ban Coc tourist area in Minh Quang commune.

Each year in November, Ba Vi National Park holds the hot balloon festival - where visitors can participate in many experience activities, watch the wild sunflower show, and take a trip around the flower path, flower tent, and wild sunflower carnival.

At tourist spots in Minh Quang, Ba Vi, Van Hoa, and Yen Bai communes, there are cultural products and cuisine of the Muong ethnic group like Muong gong culture, national costumes, and Muong ethnic cuisine. Moreover, visitors can engage in experiential activities such as growing vegetables, processing traditional agricultural products, take part in the local production of OCOP products (Phu Yen tea garden, pomelo growing model, etc.

Nham Hien

(Vietnam Tourism 5.2022)