About 180km from Hanoi, following National Highway 6 towards Son La, Pa Co commune, Phu Tho province is located at an altitude of 1,200m above sea level. With two distinct seasons: rainy season and dry season, cool climate all year round, average temperature of about 19 degrees Celsius, fresh nature, majestic landscape and unique Mong ethnic culture, Pa Co has all the potential conditions to develop community tourism , attracting tourists to explore and experience.
Tourists enjoy experiencing the majestic scenery at Pa Co and checking in at the cloud hunting spot.
Over the past years, with many synchronous solutions, the material and spiritual life of Pa Co commune people has been constantly improved. Infrastructure has been gradually invested in and built; basic public works have met the needs of life. People have boldly changed the structure of crops and livestock, focusing on developing typical local products such as temperate vegetables, fruits, black chicken, local pigs, etc. to serve both their livelihoods and create products for tourism.
Experience walking on the roads in Pa Co commune
Coming to Pa Co, visitors can explore the winding roads between tea hills, plum forests, forests, and peaceful villages nestled in the clouds. Pa Co is also famous for 3 very special cloud hunting spots: Thung Mai, Pa Khom and Hang Kia, where visitors can hunt clouds all year round, regardless of season - something rarely seen in other tourist destinations that are loved by tourists, especially foreign groups.
Not only the scenery, Pa Co is also attractive because of the unique culture of the Mong ethnic group. That is the cuisine with local pigs, black chicken, corn wine, hand-pounded sticky rice cakes...; or traditional crafts such as brocade weaving, indigo dyeing, beeswax painting on linen... Each product, each living habit contains profound cultural values, creating a unique attraction for this land.
Coming to Pa Co, tourists enjoy exploring the houses of the Mong people.
In recent years, the Mong people in Pa Co have boldly developed tourism, built homestays for accommodation, proactively developed trees and animals, preserved traditional crafts and put tourism products into business. In the commune, there are currently famous homestays such as: Y Mua Homestay; A La Homestay; Y Sao Homestay... with spacious facilities, increasingly professional services, meeting the needs of tourists. Households doing community tourism proactively link tours, routes, build and perfect typical tourism products, contributing to diversifying experiences and attracting tourists. Each year, the commune welcomes about 5,000 tourists, of which over 60% are foreign visitors.
Since 2019, the Provincial People's Committee (formerly Hoa Binh province) has organized a conference to promote tourism investment in Pa Co commune as a signal showing the potential and strong attraction of this land. However, Pa Co tourism is still developing on a small scale, lacking large investment projects, not commensurate with the available potential.
Enjoy traditional culture through the art of beeswax painting on linen of the Mong people
Mr. Tran Van Truyen - Chairman of Pa Co Commune People's Committee said: Despite having a lot of potential, Pa Co still faces many difficulties due to the traffic infrastructure, electricity system, roads, schools, and stations at many points being degraded and needing investment; the terrain is mainly mountainous, the area of land for production is small, the source of irrigation water is unstable, causing difficulties for agricultural development.
Faced with that reality, the commune has determined to take tourism development as a spearhead in economic development, focusing on developing community tourism associated with clean agricultural development and preserving cultural identity. The commune is actively mobilizing people to participate in tourism, supporting the construction of homestays, growing vegetables, fruit trees... to serve tourists. At the same time, it continues to recommend the province to pay attention to investing in infrastructure; opening training courses to improve skills and knowledge of serving tourists for the people...
With the determination to promote internal strength and effectively exploit existing potential, Pa Co is gradually overcoming difficulties, aiming to become a unique community tourism destination on the Northwest route.
Source: https://bvhttdl.gov.vn/phu-tho-pa-co-tap-trung-phat-trien-du-lich-cong-dong-gop-phan-thuc-hien-cac-muc-tieu-giam-ngheo-20251123161252854.htm
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