Lô Lô Chải on a Crisp Autumn Day
The third visit to Lo Lo Chai (Lô Lô Chải) village is still full of emotions like the first, but the sky and autumn bring cooler, fresher, and more pleasant weather.
Thu Huong (Hanoi), who is passionate about experiential tourism, chose Lo Lo Chai village at the foot of Dragon Mountain (Lung Cu commune, Dong Van district, Ha Giang province) for the trip in early September. The idyllic, rustic land of the borderlands left the 9X girl with many memories.
"My feelings were the same the third time I returned to the border village of the northernmost region. If the previous experience was in the middle of the 0 degrees Celsius weather of the 4th Tet night, the weather this time is cool, pleasant, and a little chilly of the autumn highlands "Thu Huong stated.
View of Lo Lo Chai village from above.
Lo Lo Chai village is only 1 km from Lung Cu National FlagPole and is primarily inhabited by Lo Lo people, one of Vietnam's smallest ethnic groups. Lo Lo Chai village appears to be nestled at the foot of the mountain, concealing unique reporting houses.
The Lo Lo people's houses typically have three pavilions made of flesh and clay and roofed with yin and yang tiles. The walls are 50-60 cm thick to help people adjust to the cold winter and hot summer weather.
Lo Lo Chai village currently has 37 reported houses, many of which are over a century old. The yellow houses in the middle of the Dong Van stone plateau are also highlights that visitors want to see.
The corn is drying on the porch.
People will bring corn back to the front porch to dry after harvesting it on the rocky mountain. People living in the middle of rocky and rocky soil must sometimes eat sesame instead of rice during years of rice crop failure.
Lo Lo Chai village has recently gained popularity among tourists. Many households open tourist homestays in addition to working, and life is becoming increasingly better.
A well-known homestay in Lo Lo Chai village.
Highland girl in the village of Lo Lo Chai.
Thu Huong recommends that visitors stay one night in Lo Lo Chai to experience more indigenous people's cultural features such as houses, cuisine, costumes, and so on. In the evening, enjoy the homestay's black chicken hot pot, a cup of spicy corn wine, and friendly conversation.
The Lo Lo people's traditional cuisine is black chicken.
In the chilly highlands, getting up early and taking a walk around Lo Lo Chai village, inhaling the fresh rice aroma, reading the book that arouses the soul, sipping a glass of warm tea... is an indescribable feeling, it takes until the place to feel all the very simple things.
Lo Lo Chai village was designated a cultural village in 2007 and was included in the Project on Preserving Traditional Cultural Villages. Lo Lo residents are becoming more aware of the importance of preserving national cultural values and local tourism. The village's living environment is also becoming increasingly clean and beautiful, bringing new vitality to the Dong Van rocky highlands while maintaining national identity.
Source: Minh Vy (Ảnh: Nguyễn Thu Hương)