Nghia Do commune belongs to Bao Yen district, Lao Cai province - a land with rich and diverse ecological and humanistic tourism resources.
The landscape of Nghia Do village stands out with palm forests, green tea hills mixed with lovely stilt houses. Next to the cool Nam Luong stream, visitors can also see the traditional Tay water trellis set up with a steady rotation, creating a unique picture.
Surrounded by undulating mountain slopes with deep green vegetation create a fresh and peaceful space. Visitors will be able to immerse themselves in a fresh and peaceful climate.
Standing high and looking down, Nghia Do is a beautiful basin with vast rice fields, interspersed with beautiful small roads leading to the villages. Walking on beautiful small roads winding around fields or Nam Luong stream, visitors will enter a peaceful, pristine space.
Surrounding is a majestic and poetic landscape with high mountains and thousands of streams. The scent of the fields and the wind, no noise, no dust, a strangely quiet space. Here, there is a convergence of natural scenery, village culture, cuisine, customs, traditions and folklore. That is the identity inherent in the Tay village of Nghia Do people.
In addition, the Tay people in Nghia Do have many attractive traditional cultural and artistic activities, originating from labor, production, and ethnic beliefs such as: Field festival, folk songs. Folk songs and dances such as Coi singing, Then singing, Loon singing, Plow dance, with musical instruments such as zither, bamboo flute, drums, trumpets, and dan Tinh dancing.
The cuisine of the Tay ethnic people in Nghia Do is also attractive to tourists because of the unique blend of many Northwest spices that create dishes that once you enjoy, you will never forget the smell. These unique flavors include: fish wrapped in dong leaves buried in kitchen ash, blue palm pupa, duck meat in bamboo tube, wild vegetable salad, grilled mountain frog, chicken soup cooked in palanquin...
This September 2 holiday, visitors should not miss the Nghia Do green rice season as well as feel the poetic and charming scenery along with the kindness, openness and hospitality of the Tay people.
In the past 5 years, the total number of tourists coming to Nghia Do commune tourist destination has changed markedly. 2020: Due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, the number of tourists coming to Nghia Do is about 1,000. By 2023, the total number of tourists coming to Nghia Do commune will be about 21,000, an increase of 20 times compared to 2020.
In the first 6 months of 2024 alone, the number of tourists coming to Nghia Do is estimated to reach 28,000, an increase of 27 times compared to 2020 and 7 times compared to 2023, of which international tourists are about 2 thousand. .
