Without banyan trees, ferry docks, or communal house yards, Vung Vieng fishing village (Bai Tu Long Bay, Quang Ninh ) still retains the characteristics of a Vietnamese village, simple, peaceful, and with unique cultural features.
Vung Vieng fishing village (or Vong Vieng) was originally just a place for fishermen to anchor their boats to rest and avoid storms. Gradually, people gathered, and in the 19th century, the peaceful land became a village on the sea. Although it has the typical features of a fishing village, Vung Vieng has a village gate like many other Vietnamese villages. Vung Vieng village gate is a giant stone arch, separating the space inside the village and the bay outside. Although there is no surrounding wall to demarcate the village boundary like on the mainland, there are many ways to get to Vung Vieng, but the village gate is the closest way to the sea.
On a hot summer day, the shadows of the big and small mountains on the bay are cool, but the coolest and most airy place is the village gate. Under the arch of the village gate, the elderly and children in the village often gather. After 10 years on shore, he still cannot forget the 12 years he lived in the village. Mr. Vu Van Nam told us that the time he spent in the village was the happiest. Although it was harder than on the mainland, the fishermen were very united and loved each other.
One house went to another, helping each other in times of need. At the age of 10, he moved to a fishing village to live with his parents. Children of fishermen were very good at diving. Back then, he often went to the village gate with his friends to play. At noon, when it was too hot at home, he would go to the village gate to hang a hammock and sleep soundly. Now, although he has a house on the mainland and his wife and children live mainly on shore, he still lives half on shore and half in Vung Vieng. He remembers the seasons when swallows nested, the village gate was also the place where the birds returned with longing and longing.
Outside the sea, large ships pass through the village gate, amidst the sparkling blue water, the fishing village is peaceful and simple, surrounded by undulating mountains. The typical floating houses are both a place to live and a place for villagers to raise aquatic and seafood products. Vung Vieng's "community yard" is the largest floating house in the village, where many rafts are connected together and the villagers affectionately call it "community raft". The community raft is where the communal activities of the village take place. There, the fishing villagers organize together cultural and artistic activities, festivals, village parties, study... The cultural features of the ancient fishing village are now preserved as heritage to introduce to tourists . The "community yard" is also where the fishing villagers introduce to tourists those cultural features.
According to the villagers, the highest mountain in the bay is the main mountain of the village. In the past, villagers climbed there to look out over the bay or look towards the mainland. When sick or in storms, the mainland was a distant dream. But today, it only takes 15 minutes to go by boat from the village to the mainland. At the foot of the main mountain is now a boat dock serving tourists. From the boat dock to the village, there are fish rafts, grouper, sea bass, cobia, pompano, grouper... enough to contribute to increasing the income for the lives of the fishing villagers.
There is also a company that cultivates and introduces Quang Ninh sea pearls to domestic and foreign tourists. Visitors to Vung Vieng can travel by bamboo boat taken by the villagers or kayak to explore the village, visit the fish rafts... Called by many international tourists as "one of the most beautiful fishing villages in the world ", Vung Vieng not only attracts tourists by its unique features and fairy-tale beauty, but also has no waste thanks to the villagers' awareness of preserving the general landscape and doing responsible tourism.
According to qdnd.vn
Source: https://baohanam.com.vn/du-lich/than-thuong-lang-chai-vung-vieng-140004.html
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