Meo Vac, a tourist destination on the Stone Plateau

Having the opportunity to visit Meo Vac district on the 27th of the 3rd lunar month every year, visitors will be immersed in the Phong Luu Khau Vai Market Festival, one of the largest and most unique festivals in the Stone Plateau. This year, the event continues to be organized by the district from April 22 to 24 on a provincial scale. Within the framework of the festival, there will be many attractive activities such as: Incense offering ceremony at Ong temple, Ba temple, love praying ceremony, traditional costume contest, Mong flute dance performance, folk cultural exchange. Currently, the district is actively preparing for the festival, ensuring the set schedule.

Tourists find information about tourist attractions in Meo Vac.

If Phong Luu Khau Vai Market represents the cultural beauty, then Ma Pi Leng Pass will certainly represent the natural landscape of Meo Vac. Many backpackers have loved this pass and called it "the most majestic pass" or one of the "four great peaks" of the Northern region of Vietnam. The pass is more than 20 km long, connecting Meo Vac and Dong Van districts. This is the pass with the most arduous and heroic history of formation. Standing on the pass, visitors can admire a large area of ​​overlapping cat-ear rocky mountains, especially the entire Tu San gorge, the deepest gorge in Southeast Asia standing next to the clear Nho Que river.

Not only Phong Luu Khau Vai Market or Ma Pi Leng Pass, Meo Vac district also has many other unique landscapes and cultural beauties such as: White cliffs, Nho Que 3 Hydropower reservoir, San To cave. Community cultural tourism villages in Pa Vi, Tat Nga, Ta Lung communes, Meo Vac town. Traditional festivals of Mong, Dao, Lo Lo ethnic groups such as Gau Tao festival, Ban Vuong worship ceremony, and crop praying ceremony. Or traditional dishes of indigenous people such as men men, thang co, smoked meat, dried beef, corn wine. All these beauties have blended together, creating attractive tourism products that attract visitors to the district.

Tu San Alley - a unique natural wonder on the Stone Plateau.

Ms. Tran Huyen Trang, a tourist from Quang Ninh province, shared: “Meo Vac has a fascinating natural landscape, like a Ha Long Bay on land. Not only does it possess many majestic landscapes, the cultural beauty in the lives of the people also left me with many deep impressions. I will definitely return to Meo Vac in the near future.”

In order to attract more tourists to the locality, recently, Meo Vac district has focused on implementing many synchronous solutions, including focusing on planning, mobilizing capital and resources to invest in tourism infrastructure; paying attention to developing typical and strong tourism products such as community tourism, adventure tourism, discovery and experience tourism. In addition, the district has also promoted tourism promotion and advertising, effectively forming and exploiting tours and routes to serve tourists; building awareness of civilization and environmental protection in tourism development; focusing on training, fostering and improving the quality of tourism human resources to meet the increasing demands of tourists.

Thanks to the synchronous implementation of solutions, the number of tourists to Meo Vac district has continuously increased over the years. In 2024 alone, the whole district welcomed 545,000 visitors, reaching 107% compared to 2023. In the first quarter of 2025, the whole district welcomed more than 121,000 visitors, reaching 183.5% compared to the same period in 2024. These impressive numbers not only reflect the strong attraction of Meo Vac tourism but also open up a promising future. With the right orientation, thorough investment and great tourism potential, Meo Vac promises to become an indispensable destination in the journey to explore the blooming rocky land of tourists from all over the world.

Article and photos: TRAN KE

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