Copy Sin Suoi Ho community tourism in the commune Sin Suoi Ho, Phong Tho district, Lai Chau province is located at an altitude of nearly 1,500m above sea level, this place is blessed with a cool climate all year round. Coming here, visitors can experience many moments such as cloud hunting on the mountain top, visiting the orchid garden, visiting the weekend market...
In the local language, “Sin Suoi Ho” means “stream with gold”. This area has a waterfall pouring down from above, forming a stream, winding around the village, as beautiful as a fairy tale. This place is nature's favor endowed with a year-round fresh, cool climate and a primeval forest ecosystem with many majestic natural landscapes such as: Heart Waterfall, Love Waterfall, Ma Quai Thang Waterfall, Ky Quan San peak, Son Bac May peak, Red So Da..., all surrounded by mountains, hills, orchid forests and terraced fields stretching far and wide.
Many scholars and cultural researchers who come here to travel and explore all agree that "Sin Suoi Ho is a place that fully converges values. indigenous culture core”; that is not wrong, because today tourists coming to the village will no longer be unfamiliar with the image of old people diligently instructing their children and grandchildren on each needle and thread, how to embellish the sophisticated patterns on the traditional costumes of their people under the eaves of ancient houses.
In 2015, Sin Suoi Ho was recognized as a community tourism cultural village. Having worked in tourism in Sapa and Saigon, Ms. Hang Thi Su and Mr. Nguyen Thanh Ngoc decided to start a business in the village. Being fluent in foreign languages and social networks, the couple actively promoted the beauty of Sin Suoi Ho to friends from all over the world. Currently, in addition to the homestay service business, they have opened a beverage service under the brand name Ka Sha Coffee, which is attracting tourists to check-in and enjoy.
Another difference when coming to Sin Suoi Ho is that the indigenous values are still quite intact from traditional festivals, customs, costumes, cuisine, rammed earth house architecture to mossy stone fences winding around the small path leading to the village... This is a "priceless" resource, creating the premise to make Sin Suoi Ho become the "precious gem" of Lai Chau tourism industry over the past 10 years.
From the first days of starting tourism (2015) until now, Sin Suoi Ho has had 28 households doing homestay business and 1 Cooperative doing accommodation and culinary service business named "Heart Cooperative" with over 400 beds serving about 500 visitors/night, 1 restaurant, 4 bars Coffee and some places selling brocade, renting traditional costumes...
It is this perfection that has helped Sin Suoi Ho increase the number of visitors and become the community tourism village with the highest revenue from tourism activities in Lai Chau province. According to the statistical report of the People's Committee of Sin Suoi Ho commune, in 2024 alone, the village welcomed and served more than 30,000 visitors; revenue from tourism activities reached more than 3 billion VND.
Mr. Nguyen Minh Tung, a tourist from Hanoi, shared: Although I don't visit the village often, every time I come, I am impressed by the landscape, services and people here; they are always simple, sincere and extremely hospitable; not only that, the H'Mong ethnic boys and girls of Sin Suoi Ho are all multi-talented. They do farming, farming, building rammed earth houses, brewing wine, growing orchids... but when needed, they can play traditional musical instruments, dance, sing and even be MCs on stage. To me, they are "multi-talented farmers" that when meeting them, visitors will definitely love and remember.
Through the sharing of households doing tourism in Sin Suoi Ho, we can see the creativity in the way of doing tourism here. Everyone here unites the community to do tourism together, which is shown through daily life, they consider the village as a big family, working together, sharing the benefits from tourism equally.
The story of how to do tourism and help each other develop, perhaps Sin Suoi Ho is the place that does it best in Lai Chau. Here, there are many households that do not have the conditions to invest in homestay or other tourism services, they proactively clean their houses, plant wild flowers, decorate their houses with natural materials to serve the development of the general landscape of the village. In return, the funds collected from selling tickets to visit the village and the funds partly taken from service business households will be reinvested, building necessary items and works in the village; a part will support households facing difficulties in the village to ensure that all households benefit from tourism.
Thanks to that, 100% of households in Sin Suoi Ho village voluntarily participate in tourism activities with the hope that "more and more tourists will know and visit the place where they live".
In 2023, within the framework of the Southeast Asia Tourism Forum - ATF, Sin Suoi Ho received the award ASEAN Community Tourism For the third time and in 2024, Sin Suoi Ho was nominated to participate in the vote as "the best tourist village in the world".
Source: https://baolangson.vn/suc-hut-sin-suoi-ho-5039599.html
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