Deputy Table Yen Minh

Dong Van has long become an extremely attractive and famous tourist destination for domestic and foreign tourists when it possesses many beautiful scenes and especially the Lung Cu flagpole, a symbol very sacred to the country of Vietnam. But that is not all of Dong Van. Hidden deep in the cat's ear rock layer is a small town named Pho Bang. This place is a little-known land, although it has been forgotten by years, it still retains its wild, ancient and unusually peaceful features.

Dong Van has long become an extremely attractive and famous tourist destination for domestic and foreign tourists when it possesses many beautiful scenes and especially the Lung Cu flagpole, a symbol very sacred to the country of Vietnam. But that is not all of Dong Van. Hidden deep in the cat's ear rock layer is a small town named Pho Bang. This place is a little-known land, although it has been forgotten by years, it still retains its wild, ancient and unusually peaceful features. 

Name: Pho Bang 

Address: Located close to the Vietnam - China border in Dong Van district, Ha Giang province. 

How to get there: Visitors can go by car or motorbike from Ha Giang city about 120km. 

Demographics: About 524 people. 

Operating time: Daily operation. 

Previously, when it comes to Pho Bang, people often think of the busiest center of cannabis and drug trafficking in Ha Giang, but after being cleared, this place is lying and living an almost closed life. with the outside world. Due to the geographical position hidden deep in the main rock layer, the way to Pho Bang is quite difficult and dangerous. We can start going from Dong Van old town back about 17 km. With dangerous and precarious passes when one side is a deep abyss and the other is a high mountain, you should firmly grasp the steering wheel and pay attention to the signs and convex mirrors attached to both sides of the road. If you don't have any experience in mountain travel, a class for backpackers is probably the most appropriate option that you must prepare before you hit the road. Although the road is difficult, visitors should not be too worried and afraid because on the way you will admire the beautiful scenery of the only majestic mountains in Ha Giang or consider this as a challenge. you set for yourself to reach higher limits in life. 

After a long journey, Pho Bang town opens up in front of us a scene like being lost in a remote country of Korea. Originally known as the young woman sleeping on the Dong Van rocky plateau, when entering Pho Bang, you will feel a peaceful scene with a gentle and serene pace of life. The houses on the wall above are yin and yang roofs with ancient moss colors, ivory yellow earth walls mixed with reddish brown. The old window frame, the wall with cracks seems to be about to collapse, but it is very strong in the face of the stormy weather of Ha Giang, hanging on it are red couplets and a lantern engraved with the words of Ha Giang. The Hoa ethnic group has lost its color over the years. The old things that seemed unusable are now under the talented hands of the ethnic people living in this land, creating an ancient and rare beauty in the Northwest high mountains. 

With vice table, the four seasons have a distinct beauty, but perhaps autumn is the season when this place is the most beautiful and perfect. Autumn to the town put on a desolate beauty tinged with memories, but hidden deep inside is an overflowing, intense vitality. Enjoy the fresh air in a peaceful land, admire the passionate buckwheat flower hills, wander around on the roadside of the small town with a camera in hand, you will surely have the best experiences. What a wonderful moment in this sleeping land. 

Not only the beauty that moves people, Pho Bang town also leaves a deep impression in the hearts of tourists because of the simplicity and innocence of the people here. Living in Pho Bang are mainly ethnic Hoa and Mong people. Coming to this place, you will definitely not be able to hold back when you see the bright eyes of the ethnic people. They are the people who, although living in poverty and darkness, are never corrupted by money and the luxuries of the city, but live slowly, leisurely and diligently. Day after day, no matter how the heavens and the earth and people change, the ethnic people's lifestyle still follows a certain trajectory. Young men still carry bags to work in the fields, and women carry their children on their backs without forgetting their work. From time to time we see small children whose clothes are stained, but their eyes exude a clear, wild innocence but full of life like buckwheat flowers growing on arid rocky mountains. 

With an ancient unspoiled landscape that few people know, an ethnic minority with a simple and elegant lifestyle all created a peaceful small town of Pho Bang. Although not as famous as other places of Dong Van, this place has kept its long-standing traditional culture. It is an extremely precious gift that Pho Bang people have preserved for Ha Giang in particular and for Vietnam in general. Therefore, let's join hands to protect a beauty that is gradually fading over the years. 

Photo source: Workshop, VN Trip, FB PYS, Thanh Nien Newspaper, Lion Trip 

Writer: Anh Thu 

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Update day : 19/03/2023