About 40km from the center of Dien Bien province, Huoi Nha village, Muong Pon commune has 34 households (Mong ethnic group) mainly relying on upland cultivation, so life is still difficult.
With self-reliance and solidarity, building community-based tourism villages, turning difficulties when there is no national grid electricity and no phone signal into advantages and attraction.
In 2021, a group of people in the village came up with the idea of doing community tourism, then agreed to organize some members to come to Sin Suoi Ho village (Lai Chau province) to learn and refer.
Local people here agreed to deduct money from forest environmental service payments to establish a common fund. The rest is based on human strength and solidarity.
The whole village cleans up together, carries each stream rock to arrange a road, builds shacks to rest and creates miniature landscapes along the stream.
Families with large wooden houses provide homestay accommodation services, other households provide food, cook, sell handicrafts or organize experiences of building dams to catch fish and throwing nets for tourists.
Mr. Lau A Minh, a resident of Huoi Nha village - said that since doing tourism, chickens, ducks and farmed agricultural products have not worried about consumption. On average, each month, his family alone has sold 30-40kg of chicken meat to tourists, bringing in a significant income.
According to Mr. Lau A Tua: "My family has a traditional wooden house, so we renovated it to make a homestay for guests to sleep and rest cleanly. Just waiting for the day the national power grid is brought in, the family will buy more essential equipment to serve the people more thoughtfully.
The unique point in Huoi Nha is the weekend market, starting to be maintained from September 2025. In small leaf-roofed stalls, people sell agricultural products and local specialties: honey, upland rice, vegetables, tubers, fruits... made by themselves. Without the noise of buying and selling, the market is a space for meeting and chatting, to help visitors understand more about the Mong village lifestyle.
Mr. Lau A Khai - Head of Huoi Nha village - said that the house gates of households are not made of flashy concrete but are decorated with familiar agricultural tools: Mong khen, hammer, picking blades or golden rice bundles...
Now, on average, Huoi Nha welcomes about 10 groups of visitors each month. During holidays, the number reaches more than ten groups with hundreds of visitors coming to experience. From a remote village, Huoi Nha is now being concerned and accompanied by all levels of government and specialized agencies.
