Ban Pho Village in Bac Ha Town, Lao Cai
Ban Pho village located in Bac Ha town where visitors can find out about the life of Flower Hmong people. It would be a great idea to visit the village after visiting Bac Ha market.
Ban Pho Village
Why Ban Pho Village Is Unique?
The village of Ban Pho is the village of Black H’Mong and Flower H’Mong. It is beautiful scenery in spring as the plum flowers bloom. Ban Pho village is home of H’mong people. The population of the village is around 3000 people living in 500 families. The common language of men and women residing in this place is ting Quan Hoa, because speech, Pho, saying In Ban Pho means place where obtained residents and markets.
Coming to Ban Pho, tourist love terrific sightseeing of Bac Ha highland. Additionally, tourists will be drawn by specialties of individuals here like co, – a mixture of all parts of horses, ox, buffalo, pig corn wine in Ban pho. Ethnic individuals here are proud of corn wine.
What To Do At Ban Pho Village?
Hmong woman in Ban Pho
Among the traditional handicrafts in Ban Pho is cloth weaving with cotton and linen as basic materials. Local people wear clothes that are woven by themselves. Travellers may Find it a bit strange, like I did, as they find the simple fact that women’s dresses are extremely eye-catching with vibrant vignettes while guys wear dark clothes.
Men and women in Ban Pho live mainly on rice farming, cloth weaving and planting of plants. Should you visit the village when folks are cooking, you’ll be alarmed when seeing many strings of pork, beef being hung in the kitchen. That’s how Ban Pho folks make their very own bacon. The villagers live simply – do not expect bright lights and loud music. Really, do not even anticipate electricity. What they lack in material possessions, they make up for in their intense hospitality. The Hmong villagers are a number of the kindest people you will meet in Vietnam.
Should you visit around noon you might be too encouraged to lunch, though that may be a mixed blessing. When coming to Ban Pho village, visitors can go to the kitchen when they’re making wine. Especially on the roof of the kitchen, you can see many strings of beef like cows, goats…
That is a distinctive barbecue with wine, it tastes of unique flavor that you can’t drink or eat in any other places. Additionally to, when they have just completed in creating wine, they’ll gives you to enjoy that wine and eating the barbecue food, it is so wonderful for visitors who travel to the Sapa at the very first time.
