Vi Ro Ngheo village, Dak Tang commune, Kon Plong district, Kon Tum still preserves primitive and rustic old stilt houses. This land is also endowed by mother nature with wild flowers showing off the four seasons.
Over 40km from the area Travel Mang Den, Kon Plong district, Kon Tum, we followed the Provincial Road 676 to Vi Ro Ngheo village. The village has just over 60 roofs with 300 people, all of whom are the Xo Dang ethnic minority people. Surrounding the village are terraced fields and cool streams.
The village is nestled in a basin, surrounded by the Ngoc Ruong mountain range with many high mountains, associated with the legend from the founding of the village. The Xo Dang people here still preserve many features Culture with national identity, community, solidarity and cohesion in the village.
What makes this small village special is that it still preserves and preserves intact the old stilt houses from the past, without the mix of concrete and reinforcement. In addition, people take advantage of driftwood and rotten wood drifting from upstream to build simple and rustic gates.
From the entrance to the house, every household owns a garden of orchids spreading fragrance. These orchids are all picked from fallen forest trees. When the rainy season comes, people bring it to Ngoc Ruong heaven gate to plant and return it to the forest.
When we arrived here, we felt the hospitality of the Xo Dang people. People in the village are always conscious of joining hands to maintain hygiene and plant flowers throughout the village streets and alleys. Cattle are kept separately on upland fields, not brought back to the village to raise for hygiene purposes.
Last May, Kon Tum Provincial People's Committee issued a decision to recognize Vi Ro Ngheo village as a tourist destination with many specific types of tourism such as indigenous cultural tourism, ecology, picnics, and resorts.
When coming to Vi Ro Ngheo ancient village, visitors are immersed in the daily life of the Xo Dang people. Kon Plong District People's Committee also selected nearly 20/60 spacious and solid apartments to repair and upgrade into homestays to serve guests.
Surrounding Vi Ro Ngheo village is the Ngoc Ruong mountain range with 4 mountains forming: Ngoc Ruong, Nhong Nang, Ngoc Rang, and Vang I No. Ngoc Ruong Peak is considered as heaven's gate with an altitude of about 1.200m above sea level. Standing from here, you can admire the entire mountain range, overlapping and winding like a dragon, enveloping Vi Ro Ngheo village.
The humid and cold climate creates a rich and diverse vegetation. In particular, Ngoc Ruong mountain range also owns a treasure with wild flowers such as orchids, rhododendrons, myrtle flowers, purchased flowers... blooming in four seasons. In addition, there are 5-leaf pine trees with hundreds of years old, 2-3 people can't hug, standing on the top of Ngoc Ruong.
A Kieu (SN 1993, Vi Ro Ngheo village) is from Xo Dang village, but since birth, she has blonde hair and red skin. For more than 30 years, he and the people of the village have joined hands to protect each tree and orchid on Ngoc Ruong heaven gate.
“From December of last year to April of next year, the whole mountain range is covered with all kinds of orchids. People in the village did not dare to uproot the orchid for fear of punishment by Yang. Many tourists love orchids and ask to pick them, but the villagers are determined not to let them. Every rainy season, people bring orchids from their homes to the plantation to multiply the orchid varieties.”, A Kieu said.
Standing on the top of Ngoc Ruong, we can admire the pristine primeval forests, sometimes hidden, sometimes behind the clouds. Below is the village of Vi Ro Ngheo, the sound of buffalo calling the herd, inviting each other down the mountain before sunset.
At this time, the petals of the orchid have faded and made way for the purple myrtle forest to bloom, dyeing the whole forest pink.
On the top of Ngoc Ruong, people have built a bamboo house on stilts, lying precariously on the edge of the mountain to serve important rituals and also a resting place for the whole village after each day of going to the fields.
After more than 4 hours of walking in the forest, visiting the ancient village of the Xo Dang people here, when our legs were tired, we were rewarded by nature with a beautiful sunset over the Ngoc Ruong mountain range.
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