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Mai Chau is located in Hoa
Binh province, approximately 135 km from
Hanoi and 60 km from Hoa Binh. From the top of
Cun Mountain, one can admire the superb panorama
of Mai Chau surrounded by a green valley and stilt
houses. Many minorities, including the Thai
ethnic group, live in Mai Chau.
Stilt houses border both sides
of the roads. The houses are quite large with
palm leaf roofs and polished bamboo-slat floors.
The kitchen is located in the center of the house;
the cooking as well as the making of the colorful
tho cam, the material used by Thai minority to
make their clothes, takes place in the kitchen.
The windows are large and decorated with patterns.
Each house also has a pond to breed fish.
The Sunday market brings a lot of people into
town. People from different minorities living
in the mountains come to Mai Chau market to sell
their specific products: honey, bananas, corn,
and tho cam made by skilled Thai women. The Sunday
market is also an occasion to enjoy traditional
Thai dishes and to participate in traditional
dances.
Mai Chau can
be a base for some trekking tours to the villages
around, this is with homestay overnight on the
traditional houses of the H'Mong
and the Thai. Worth a guided trekking tour there.
Hoa Binh is a mountainous province located in
the North. It is bordered by Son La in the West,
Phu Tho and Ha Tay in the North, Ha Nam and Ninh
Binh in the East, and Thanh Hoa in the South.
The culture of Hoa Binh combines
six minorities with their own languages, traditional
literature, and festivals.
Tourists especially enjoy the minority specialty
dishes including rice cooked in bamboo and grilled
meat. They also enjoy watching traditional dancing,
music performances (bronze, drums, gongs), and
Thai minority singing and dancing. The remote
minority villages are attractive sites
for tourists.
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