Discover the ancient village of Vi Ro Ngheo: Paradise of orchids

TCCT Nestled between the mountains and forests of Dak Tang commune, and about 45km from the center of Mang Den town, Vi Ro Theo ancient village is blessed with beautiful landscapes. In particular, the village is surrounded by pots of blooming cymbidium orchids, creating a strangely charming beauty.

TCCT Located between the mountains and forests of Dak Tang commune, and about 45km from the center of Mang Den town, Vi Ro Ngheo ancient village is blessed with beautiful landscapes. In particular, the village is surrounded by pots of blooming cymbidium orchids, creating a strangely charming beauty.

Vi Ro Ngheo ancient village is located at an altitude of 1,250m above sea level, surrounded by the Ngoc Mang Chu mountains in the South, Ngoc Ki Ruong, Ngoc Chang in the West, and in the East and North are plots of land. Terraced fields are cascading next to almost intact primeval forests.

The way to Vi Ro Ngheo Ancient Village

Next to the precarious cliffs of the giant mountain range is a forest of 5-needle pine trees hundreds of years old, towering on top of Ngoc Ruong.

Standing on the top of Ngoc Ruong mountain, the ancient village of Vi Ro Theo is like a watercolor painting with rolling, winding mountain ranges embracing the small village, and gentle streams flowing day and night to water the green rice fields. yummy...

Vi Ro Ngheo ancient village is like a watercolor painting

In particular, Ngoc Ruong mountain range also owns a treasure with forest flowers such as azaleas, myrtle flowers, purchased flowers, orchids, etc., blooming in four seasons.

To the west of the ancient village of Vi Ro Theo are hills with the hidden beauty of five-needle pine forests, primeval forests with tree trunks that two people cannot hug, hills of cymbidium orchids, azalea flowers, myrtle flowers and brilliant flowers.

The captivating beauty of Vi Ro Theo Ancient Village

Just walk about 20 minutes from the village and you can set foot on these hills. Continuing deeper into the neighboring hills and forests, you will discover more beautiful destinations in nature. That is the clear Vi Ro Theo waterfall whose flow originates from the deep forest, where villagers often come to bathe.

And for those who are passionate about sunrise, sunset and cloud hunting, the hill of myrtle and flowers bought behind the village is a great place. Early morning is the perfect time for you to admire the panoramic beauty of the village and the whole process of sunrise behind the endless mountains on the opposite side. On cloudy days, it will also be a great place for you to hunt for clouds and take beautiful photos of the sea of ​​clouds in the valley below.

In the middle of the ancient village are rustic wooden houses surrounded by surrounding rice fields. In addition, the village is also surrounded by a flowing stream, creating a very poetic beauty.

Vi Ro Theo ancient village has about 64 households and 300 people, 100% of whom are Xo Dang ethnic people living together, forming a miniature society of the Xo Dang ethnic minority people. . The Xo Dang people in Vi Ro Theo village are honest, friendly and hard-working people. You will feel warm when you visit this interesting village.

Vi Ro Ngheo ancient village has about 64 households and 300 people, 100% of which are the Sodang ethnic group.

Currently, the ancient village of Vi Ro Theo still maintains many traditional festivals such as the water trough making ceremony, the new rice celebration, the buffalo barn building ceremony, the new communal house, and the rice sowing ceremony.

The people of Vi Ro Ngheo ancient village have about 28% of stilt houses made according to the tradition of the Xo Dang people and hundreds of rice warehouses of the people here bearing the traditional culture still preserved. The houses all retain historical, architectural, and cultural values ​​with unique architectures associated with the daily life of the Xo Dang community.

In the ancient village of Vi Ro Theo, the layout of the gate and fence around the house is also very unique. All 63 households here built gates using wood salvaged from the forest. The wooden gate is very simple, not elaborate but very beautiful and eye-catching. Different irregular, curved, and straight wooden bars are creatively stacked by local people to form a gate to the house, both simple but also very special, unique and strange.

The house gate made of wood is very simple, not fussy but very beautiful and eye-catching.

Not only the gate, around the houses, the villagers also take advantage of the dead wood in the forest to cut into short pieces and arrange them around the house, which is also very special and impressive, creating a unique beauty for the houses. house in the ancient village of Vi Ro Ngheo.

The cool climate creates a rich and diverse vegetation and creates a "paradise" of orchids.

The fence surrounding the houses is a series of potted orchids

Coming to the ancient village of Vi Ro Theo, on the wooden fences of each house, people planted orchids. The fence surrounding the houses is a series of Cymbidium pots. Orchid pots are made of salvaged wood, about 40cm high, hollowed out, removed with rice husks and fertilizer to grow orchids. The space full of orchids covers every house in the village, giving the village a strange attraction.

The villagers take care of each pot of cymbidium orchids

Up to now, the villagers of Vi Ro Ngheo village have collected and propagated about 1,000 pots of orchids and orchids; Organized zoning and conservation of 5 hills of orchids and myrtle, bought around the village. When the afternoon shadow covers the mountains and hills, the pink and yellow cymbidium flowers give way to the blooming myrtle forest, dyeing the whole forest purple.

The cool climate creates a rich and diverse vegetation and creates a "paradise" of orchids.

Vi Ro Ngheo ancient village has just been recognized as a community tourism village by Kon Tum province and is the second community tourism village of Kon Plong district, after Kon Pring community tourism village (Mang Den town). This has an important meaning in orienting the development of local tourism products by diversifying forms of experience for visitors, creating a connecting space between community tourism villages. At the same time, creating a motivation for the Xo Dang people to preserve and promote traditional cultural values ​​and a good opportunity for people to escape poverty.

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Update day : 05/09/2023