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Dec 17, 2020 / 11:30

Long Viet tourist area: a place to keep the soul of the North

Located in the complex of relics and scenic Ba Vi, known as the place to keep the soul of North Vietnam, Long Viet Resort gradually became one of the ideal weekend destination for tourists.

A corner of Long Viet Tourist Area.
A corner of Long Viet Tourist Area.
Long Viet tourist resort locates in Van Hoa commune, Ba Vi district, Hanoi. It is not only a destination but also a place to honor the traditional cultural values ​​of the Vietnamese. The owner of this place has skillfully created and exhibited artifacts in different area that clearly shows the big difference between countryside of the North. The furniture, utensils, farm tools associated with farmers in the North 50-60 years ago as plows, harrows, sickles, pickers, water buckets, fishing hoes, basket crabs, baskets, chopsticks, jars, rice sticks, rice mortar, water jar etc are displayed quite lively and eye-catching. All will bring visitors back time to explore the life, labor, production and cultural life, the spirit of the farmer at that time.
In Long Viet, tourists will be immersed in the countryside of Vietnam, for example seeing buffalo are grazing grass. There is also a village pond that usually is used for organizing traditional water puppet show of summer festival in many countryside of the Northern. Somewhere in the corner of the garden, the water flows peacefully as the small stream.
Particularly, in the 7-storey house of the landlord displayed a lot of valuables items from the Le, Ly, Tran, Nguyen dynasties. Next are the houses for the literature and the martial arts officials with all necessary furniture. Spiritual life is also expressed respectfully through the worshiping places of Guan Yin Buddha, traditional altars of the Vietnamese.

 
Vietnamese countryside.
Vietnamese countryside.
In the stilted house of Thai people, visitors will be attracted to the gong hanging up the stairs and the yellow corn wire as food storage. In the house, there are many familiar equipment s of mountainous people such as looms weaving brocade cloth, rice basket, corn, crossbows and so on.
In addition, perhaps most impressive are the trees, the unique fruit collected from many regions are grown here. Many kinds of strange flowers, precious plants with special posture, and extremly rare old ancient trees are converged in this place. Around the resort, if the visitors get tired, they can sit at the bamboo poles to enjoy the gift of the country like boiled potatoes, candy powder, pineapple, banana, green tea ... Or enjoy the folk songs by the staff of Long Viet show.