Viet Hai fishing village is a small village located deep in Cat Ba national park, in Cat Hai island district, Hai Phong. Because it is located deep in the forest and the road is winding, in the past very few people in the country set foot here, but today Viet Hai village is attracting many foreign tourists, especially this is a very popular spot. Prefer this type of bicycle tour.
Tourists cycle to visit Viet Hai village
Previously, Viet Hai was almost completely separate from the outside world. The mountains and forests are desolate and deserted, so whenever they come to a flooded road during the rainy season, local people carelessly “strip” and dive and wade. Mr. Hoang, a resident of Cat Ba, confessed that he had been living in this village for more than 10 years because of the “striptease” story. That time, he brought medicinal herbs to sell to the villagers. When he reached the middle of the stream, he met a girl in the same condition as him. The shy and confused girl threw her clothes and belongings into the water. After that, he had to voluntarily lend her his clothes to wear temporarily. Then they met and fell in love, becoming husband and wife.
Viet Hai people still maintain a “primitive” life like since ancient times. The whole commune has more than a dozen old Chinese motorbikes belonging to families considered the most well-off in the village, which they use to run around for several kilometers on the newly opened concrete road.
Road to Viet Hai Village
This person finished driving and threw the car to a corner on the side of the road, leaving the keys in the car. If someone else wants to take the car and drive it, they can do it, then return it to its original place. The house is open day and night, even if the owner goes away for a few days, no one steals anything. If this family has something to worry about, there is no need to report it, the whole village comes together to help. This house’s belongings can be freely used by another family if they need something. Therefore, in the whole village there are only two police officers who mainly take care of administrative work. Viet Hai is almost completely “clean” from all types of social evils.
Viet Hai is currently the most remote and difficult commune of Cat Hai district. But the people here seem very satisfied with their materially poor but sentimental life. Live and share together, without calculation or self-interest, to get rich between the mountains, forests and sea. Secretary of the Commune Party Committee Dinh Van Thuy confided that it is thanks to this cultural activity that more and more foreign tourists come. In recent years, tens of thousands of tourists have crossed streams and climbed passes to visit. They heard the sound of a pristine land in the middle of the world biosphere reserve, Cat Ba national forest.
Viet Hai people are also starting to show quite sharpness when starting to do tourism. The village decided to send a group of people to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to learn how to do tourism and apply it to the village. There is also a “forest man” travel company opening operations in this remote mountain village owned by local people. Mountain bikes were bought in Hai Phong and taken by boat to the village, serving Western visitors to cycle to see the village and climb mountains. There are also a few people who work in the fields and also serve as motorbike taxi drivers to take tourists around the village.
A few stilt houses and a few restaurants serving tourists have just opened. Foreign visitors who come here after visiting the mountains and forests and stopping at the restaurant will ask people to take care of cooking services from food that people grow and raise themselves such as chickens, ducks, green vegetables… Many village elders, Young people in the village volunteered to be “tour guides” for guests. Village elders also selected nearly a dozen local boys and girls to send to Cat Ba to “update” common English. Viet Hai people are eager to do tourism with the dream of turning their village into a unique “tourist island” in the near future.
