What's interesting about Thai Nguyen?

After the summer rain, the trees were lush green along the winding path in Thai Hai village. The Tay people in the village welcomed us with cheerful eyes and gentle smiles as if meeting familiar friends returning from a long journey.

The first stop of the photo tour is also the place that leaves a deep cultural impression with stilt houses and unique community living customs. The village model with nearly 200 people living like a big family when eating together, producing together, spending together...

Children are taken care of in their studies, the elderly are provided with medical care, and women and men of working age are assigned to production jobs or to serve tourists visiting the village. Photographers had a valuable day of hands-on experience to create vivid images of the rhythm of life here: from carrying water, cooking rice, weaving farming tools to the customs of inviting guests to drink, performing Then singing, and throwing con games...

The forecasted rains still worried us on our journey to compose at outdoor experience spots. Luckily, the second day started with the clear moments of a new day on Nui Coc Lake. A vast river area, mountains looming in the distance brought many lyrical shots of this legendary vast blue lake. The song still resonated when looking back at the creative achievements of the photographers that early morning:

Floating (oh) floating

Wobbly (oh) wobbly

The boat met a passenger who was drunk on the wind.

Drifting boat, drifting boat

The oars stir the deep blue water.

(Excerpt from Legend of Nui Coc by musician Pho Duc Phuong)

It is still the outdoor scenes that stir the souls of photographers when they visit the green, sloping tea hills or the Cua Tu stream with its rushing water after many heavy rains. The creative inspiration of the photo tour group is fully nurtured when interspersed with the experiences are stories about the people here.

This is the story of the female “captain” of the Hao Dat tea cooperative with a passion for developing clean tea material areas while protecting the ecological environment, producing products that have received the National 5-star OCOP certification. This is a story revolving around the elaborate manual processing stages to produce famous tea buds, tea buds, and teas from the land of Tan Cuong tea.

That is the secret of preparation shared during an intimate meal with delicious dishes made from tea leaves, called by beautiful, curious names such as royal green tea, hidden gems in the clouds, braised fish with tea buds... That is the effort to build a homestay, promote to domestic and foreign tourists of young people working in tourism in Dai Tu district, where there is Cua Tu stream suitable for trekking routes for those who love wild nature.

There are still many stories and promises for us to return to Thai Nguyen to see this charming and charming girl.

See you Thai Nguyen on beautiful sunny days!

Heritage Magazine