(TITC) - Homestay tourism in Pe Luong Village, Thanh Luong Commune, Dien Bien District, Dien Bien Province is exciting for tourists to discover spectacular Northwestern scenery and specific Thai cultural characteristics.
Pe Luong has the area of 25ha, about 20km to the west of Dien Bien Phu City. According to Thai language, Pe Luong means solidarity and development. With this mean, Thai people have lived in Pe Luong for many generations and developed into a village with about 100 households living mainly by planting and breeding, weaving traditional brocade. Attractiveness of Thai culture here is expressed evidently through architecture of stilts houses, traditional costumes, festivals, cuisine and sacrificial ritual in family.
Along with unique Thai cultural values, Pe Luong Village also has beautiful scenery with mountain and lake. Of which, Pe Luong Lake is a destination which has many potentialities to develop eco and leisure tourism and attracts a large number of tourists every year. In 2001, Pe Luong Village was recognized as a tourism culture village at provincial level.
With these strengths, Pe Luong villagers have pushed efforts to develop tourism, especially community-based tourism to create opportunity for tourists to experience life of local people; contribute to preserving and promoting traditional cultural identity of Thai people as well as improving villagers’ living conditions. So far, the village has 10 households providing community-based tourism services. In addition, to make deep impression with visitors, Pe Luong Village also established an art team to perform Thai dances and songs for tourists in the cultural stilt house; sell traditional brocade products with various designs; build restaurants serving local cuisine.
Community-based tourism in Pe Luong changed local people’s awareness of preservation and promotion of traditional cultural values, as well as enriched community-based tourism destinations in Dien Bien Province.
Thu Giang
