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Tam Giac Mach Flower blooms every where in North Vietnam

If you come and choose our Vietnam Motorbike Tours to discover the traditional culture of Vietnam for real, why do not add Ha Giang to your itinerary? Especially in November, this province will organize a very special festival.

The Tam Giac Mach flower festival will be held in Ha Giang for the first time in the middle of November, it is the time of the main crop of Ta Giac Mach flower, so they bloom everywhere and provide one of the best views in Ha Giang.

According to the official plan, 2015 Tam Giac Mach flower festival will be held from 12th to 15th November 2015. All the activities will be organized in 4 districts: Dong Van, Quan Ba, Yen Ming and Meo Vac which belong to Dong Van Karst Plateau.

The opening ceremony and the main activities will take place at the center of Dong Van commune. From the early of September, the local authorities has directed the local people to grow Tam Giac Mach flowers as planned to create many unique shapes.

Tam Giac Mach flower festival will be closed to many cultural activities such as the Third Mong Flute Festival, the amateur photo exhibition with the subject of composing and promoting about Dong Van karst Plateau; Karst Plateau tourism fair…

It will be the first time, the Tam Giac Mach festival has been held in Ha Giang at provincial scale. This event is aimed to introduce the unique images, the traditional cultural feature of the local living in this Dong Van Geopark area to all of the domestic and international tourists. Besides, it is also aimed to attract more investors to turn Dong Van karst Plateau into the national tourism zone; to honor the humanistic and cultural values of this rocky land notably from Tam Giac Mach flower landscape; to build the specific brand for the Tam Giac Mach tourism product in exploiting and developing tourism.

Although not until November, Tam Giac Mach flower festival will be held in Ha Giang, from October, Tam Giac Mach flower started to bloom. Please make a plan to visit Ha Giang in this occasion and contact ADV Vietnam Motorcycle Tours & Dirtbike Travel to design good Motorbike Tours Vietnam to enjoy the best view of Ha Giang with thousands of Tam Giang Mach flowers.

List of main hill tribes in North of Vietnam

Sapa is not only famous for stunning beauty of the landscape but also for the most typical ethnic destination in Vietnam. In Motorbike Tours Vietnam to Sapa, especially on the market day, you will visit many different ethnic groups. Besides the Kinh group which is very popular in big cities in Vietnam, people in Sapa belong to 5 different groups as below:

1. The Black H’mong:

The Black H’mong community makes up 54% of the total population in Sapa. They live mostly in the surrounding villages such as Cat Cat, Lao Chai, Ta Van…and only come to the main town to purchase goods and sell hand-made things. Black H’mong wear clothes dyed with natural (black-blue) indigo. Red, green and white highlighting colours are also used in the embroidery of the collar, belt and sleeves.

2. The Red Dao

The Red Dao makes up 23.04% of the total population in Sapa. To our customers of Vietnam Motorcycle Tours, the Red Dao is very easy to recognize through their custom because they usually wear red headdresses or red pieces of clothing. Both men and women have a square piece of fabric on the back of their shirts which represents that they are children of God.

3. The Tay people

The Tay occupies 4.74% of the total population in Sapa. The Tay lives in wooden or bamboo stilt houses near a stream or river. They are settled in valleys in the north west part of Sapa. The Tay women wear dresses made from cotton and dyed with indigo colour. The dresses are usually plain, with little embroidery.

4. The Giay

The Giay people, 1.36% of total population, live in a stilt house which built on ground. The upper level of the house is used as a drying place. Giay costume is often woven of bright colors such as pinks, greens and blues. Giay women normally wear at the side button blouse and indigo trousers. Their hair is worn in a bun or braids wound around the back of the head. They often wear a turban also.

5. The Xa Pho

The Xa Pho lives mainly in Nam Sai commune, quite far from Sapa town. So, if you take Vietnam Motorbike Tours to Sapa, you will be hardly to see Xa Pho people in the town. They live in houses built half on stilts and half on the ground with wooden or rattan furniture.  The traditional costume of the Xa Pho women is so different from the other groups because it consists of the crop-top and the skirt embroidered with butterfly, shelter and zigzag patterns. They use a bright red thread to embroider decorations all over their clothes.

Come to Sapa, you will learn more about the different ethnic groups via their daily activities.

Source: Vietnam Dirtbike Travel

Coffee Street Vendors in Vietnam

Coffee Street Vendors in Vietnam

Taking Part In Long Tong Festival with H'Mong People

Vietnam Dirtbike Travel sets up many leading Vietnam motorcycle tours in Vietnam. We always try our best to provide you best services.

By joining one of our motorbike tours Vietnam, you will be a part of helping maintain the Vietnam’s Nature and Traditional Villages. It’s a great participation of cultural exchange and an insight view on Vietnam lifestyle.

Today, we would like to introduce you one of the biggest and most important events of Lang Son, Lao Cai, Cao Bang, Tuyen Quang… It is Long Tong festival held annually on the 4th day of the year (according to Lunar Calendar).

Although the festival has different names in different places in these provinces, it has the same procedures and parts: worshiping the God of agriculture, traditional games, folk song singing contests, etc. Most of local people here live on agriculture so this festival is mostly to thank for the God of agriculture. the God of agriculture is the one who looks after the fields, gardens. He can conjure up the wind, the rain to make a bountiful harvest and give the villagers a peaceful year.

First, Pu Mo, the head of the festival worships the gods and the kings in the main temple of the village. After that, he leads the people of the village to the paddy fields to worship the God of agriculture. Here, people prepare many gifts such as fresh fruits, wine, boiled chicken, and other traditional dishes to send to the God and pray for the good crops.

After the worshiping, local people gather to enjoy the food and after that it is the time for traditional games. Occasionally, people even invite the Lion dance team from adjoining villages to take part in a contest. They believe that if a lion comes in the spring, good luck and wealth would come to the whole family during the whole year

Joining our Vietnam motorbike tours in the time of the festival to learn more about the tradition and culture of the local people in the North of Vietnam.

Bun Cha - The famous dish of Vietnam

It is no doubt that our customers joining our Vietnam motorbike tours have a great impression much on Bún Chả dish. They can eat a lot of time the same dish Bún Chả.

A lot of visitors do not know much about this special and famous dish, so we would like to introduce you about this dish.

Bún chả is a unique food and you can find an unforgettable impression of the dish even you just try once. People believe Bun cha originated in Hanoi. For some reason, it is not available in other part of the country. Previously, bún chả used to be a dish sold by street vendors, rather than in restaurants. A bowl of bún chả is quite simple, convenient and quick, so we can enjoy it sometimes in place of rice.

The ingredients are pretty common. The chả in bún chả always come in 2 types: tiny grilled pork patties (cha vien) and fatty pork slices (cha mieng). The grilled pieces are usually made from belly meat, while the patties made from minced meat of shoulder or loin. They are both blended with spices before they were grilled over charcoal.

The rest of the dish was for bún (rice noodle) and vegetables. A basket of fresh herbs and vegetable including small lettuces, curled shredded morning glory, stems, cilantro, or some combination of minty, spicy Vietnamese herbs accompany the sauce. In the low season of such herbal vegetables, water spinach from Son Tay is used instead – the stalks are selected and split into small strands. All the vegetables are thoroughly washed, but not crushed and crumpled.

The most difficult part in making bún chả is to get the right mixture of sauce. It really is an art to make a good dipping sauce in bún chả. The sauce will then contain all the essential tastes, sour, hot, salty and sweet. Grilles of well cooked pork would be opened and the contents dropped into the bowl of fish sauce. The dipping sauce is wonderfully mixed into a picky brown, light yellow tasty liquid, while the grilled patties of minced pork or slices of belly meat, generally referred to as chả, are put into the sauce. Some chili and pepper are also added to make the food even more delicious.

Enjoy Bún Chả before joining our motorbike tours Vietnam, sure, you still want to try if after finishing the motorcycle tours Vietnam

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Hill Tribe Love Market in Vietnam

Our customers before booking our Vietnam motorcycle tours always search on internet about the special feature of the local people in the North of Vietnam. And Khau Vai love market attracts them a lot. They ask us whether to provide more information about this market also.
Traveling Vietnam motorbike tours to Khau Vai on lunar March 26th and 27th, you can have a great opportunity to join the market.  Khau Vai love market is held on lunar March 26th and 27th with the participation of a large number of locals in Khau Vai commune, Meo Vac district, Ha Giang province. Here is the home of some different ethnic tribes such as Giay, Nung and Muong. Khau Vai market is a real symbol of love. There are some legends around this market that you should know.

And here are 2 best ones:
Legend has it that once upon a time, there were a boy and a girl born from two different places of the Dong Van Plateau. And they love each other a lot. However, they are forbidden to get married by the two families, so they decided to leave home to come and settle down together in Khau Vai, a prosperous land with green plants. In honor of their merits in cultivating the wild land into a rich land, the local people built the two temples called Ong and Ba (Mr. and Mrs.) to worship them.
Another legend is that there was a young couple from different tribes Giay and Nung who fell in love with each other. The girl was so beautiful that her tribe did not want to let her get married with any man from other tribes. Consequently, violent conflict arose between the two tribes. To stop the blood shedding, the two lovers sorrowfully decided to part. However, they planned to meet once a year on that day, lunar March 27th. The place where they used to meet is Khau Vai, which thereafter became a meeting place for all those in love.

 Khau Vai has attracted not only young but also old couples of different ages. The market not only for people who come here to seek partners for the first time but also for people who love each other very much but cannot marry each other because of different reasons. The special thing is that although a husband and a wife can go to the market together to look for their own partners to share emotions. No one is jealous because the dating at the marketplace is only a temporary feeling exchange, which has no negative influences on real life.
How special the Khau Vai love market is, come and discover the market with us, we will design the best motorbike tours Vietnam for you.