Viet Hai village – Cat Ba

Viet Hai village situated between the sea acres, surrounded by high mountains and jungles of Cat Ba National Park, Cat Hai District. Very few people in the country visit here, but Viet Hai attracts many foreign tourists.

Trekking in Cat Ba national forest

Viet Hai still maintains primitive feature from ancient times. The Commune has only a dozen motorbikes. Thus any family having motorbike is considered as a well-off family in village. Considered as an isolated island, it is as safe as you can put your motorbike anywhere, any corner of road or even you leave the key on bike. No one would take it. Or your neighbor could borrow to run any time.  Houses are always open. The host can go out all day with no worry of thieve.  As a result, his neighbor could take or borrow anything in house. There are only 2 commune polices to do administrative work.  Viet Hai has completely no social vices.

Vietnam Hai is remote village, the poorest area of Cat Hai district. But the people here seem very satisfied with life. They shared together at nonprofit, enrichment knowledge of mountains and sea. Thanks to this lifestyle, more and more visitors come here. They had heard of this wasteland located between the World Biosphere Reserve, Cat Ba National Forest.

Cycling in Viet Hai

Viet Hai people are gradually quite responsive to access hospitality industry. The village decided to send a group of people to Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City to apply for the village.  There is a travel company operating forest activities managed by local people. Also, some famers can do both field service and motorcycle taxi driver to visit the village.

House made by rice straw and soil

Several houses on stilt, eateries serving tourists also have recently opened. Foreign visitors come here after visiting the forest and taking rest in the shop. They also can order some meals from their own food, such as chicken feed, duck, vegetables...Many village elders or young people can be "tour guide" for visitors, the village elders have also picked out nearly a dozen men, local girls sent to Cat Ba to "improve" spoken English. Viet Hai people eagerly work in tourism industry with the dream of turning their village to a "tourist island" with unique features in the near future.

By Gray Line Halong

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Viet Hai village- Isolated world

Viet Hai village- Cat Ba archipelago is considered as an “isolated world”–located in the midst of the valley surrounded by high mountains and jungle. Thus the local people here still retained primitive traits from ancient times. Vietnamese tourists seldom go to this place, but it has been becoming a popular attraction to the foreign tourists.

Impression probably no one could forget that is the high community awareness in this village.  In village, there are a few sweet bikes, motorbikes and if necessary you may borrow a motorbike to drive around screaming hallway in a few minutes.
You don’t need to lock vehicle because there is no robber here, you can park free everywhere, the food at this place is mostly self-sufficient as the primitive human of thousand years ago.  Every house grows clean vegetables. Even they can give to each other without hesitating. Because of this cultural practice, foreign visitors come to this village increase gradually. In recent years, together with the recognition of Cat Ba Archipelago as the UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve, thousands tourists have trekked through the mountains, jungles, springs to visit this unique attraction. They are interested in this wild area in the midst of the Biosphere Reserve, the Cat Ba National Park.

We can say, people with Vietnamese Customs is satisfied with their real life, they do not even think about getting rich that surrounds living together, all villagers are not hard to help each other. They live together in harmony between mountains and sea.
Nowadays, Halong bay tour advices to visit Viet Hai village: you can take a cruise junk from Halong Bay to Viet Hai harbor, then go by motorbike, bicycle, trekking to Viet Hai village passing a forest road 6 km to the village. In the village, you can visit old houses, take pictures of forest trees or see people, buffalos working on the green fields.

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