Come to Vietnam, visit 5 tourist villages honored by the world

Not only famous for its fields of storks flying straight, vast seas or majestic caves, Vietnam is also known for its 5 “Best Tourist Villages in the World”. Each village has its own charm, where visitors can find authentic experiences and peace of mind.

Lo Lo Chai has just been recognized as "The best tourist village in the world "

Lo Lo Chai - a fairy tale village in the middle of the northernmost sky

Recognized by the United Nations Tourism Organization (UN Tourism) as "The World's Best Tourist Village" on October 17, 2025, Lo Lo Chai village (Tuyen Quang province) is hidden at the foot of Dragon Mountain, just a few steps away from Lung Cu flagpole.

Coming here, visitors feel as if time slows down and each step touching this land seems to take people into a fairy tale world.

The Lo Lo people have lived in harmony with nature for generations. They farm on the mountain slopes, weave brocade from flax, and craft musical instruments from bronze and bamboo. Every detail of the village tells a story of resilience and national pride.

But perhaps what makes Lo Lo Chai most special are the ancient rammed earth houses, a type of architecture that can only be found in a few places in the world. The thick walls are built entirely from rammed earth. The curved yin-yang tiled roofs not only create a graceful line amidst the majestic mountain scenery but also contain a philosophy of living in harmony with nature.

In Lo Lo Chai, more than 90% of the residents are Black Lo Lo, one of the smallest ethnic groups in Vietnam but with a very unique culture. Overcoming all the difficulties of life in the highlands, the people here still preserve their traditional identity through meticulously hand-embroidered brocade costumes, through religious rituals imbued with spiritual values, folk songs, and dances depicting life connected with nature and community.

Since 2016, Lo Lo Chai has become known for its community tourism model. To serve tourists, more than 50 homestays have been built, all of which retain the original architecture of the earthen houses, skillfully preserving each tiled roof, stone pillars, and ancient gardens.

Coming to Lo Lo Chai, visitors will live with the host, learn to cook, learn to sew, make handicrafts, join in festivals, wear traditional costumes and dance around the campfire.

Community tourism here develops slowly but steadily, without fading the identity but helping visitors feel the cultural heritage preserved and honored over time.

Quynh Son - The village of the Tay people

Quynh Son community tourism village is as beautiful as a painting

Quynh Son Community Tourism Village, Lang Son was also recognized as "The World's Best Tourist Village" on October 17, 2025, surpassing more than 270 applications from 65 countries.

The Tay village leans against the rolling mountains, located in the middle of the vast Bac Son valley, as beautiful as a painting drawn by the green of rice, the brown of tiled roofs and the hazy white of the afternoon smoke.

Located in the Bac Son Uprising National Special Relic Site and part of the Lang Son UNESCO Global Geopark, Quynh Son village is not only a tourist village but also a heritage land, where lasting and vibrant values ​​are preserved.

Here, the Tay people still maintain their traditional lifestyle with lim wood stilt houses, indigo shirts, the sound of Tinh lutes and Then singing that captivate visitors from afar.

Coming to Quynh Son, visitors can sleep overnight in an ancient stilt house, "play the role" of a local weaving cloth, farming, cooking five-color sticky rice, or immerse themselves in the bustling atmosphere of harvest festivals and field festivals.

Quynh Son is not noisy, but always makes people linger with its simple beauty and deep humanity. Each person here becomes a "cultural ambassador" of their village, telling the story of their homeland with their own voice and friendly smile.

Tra Que - green vegetable village in the heart of Hoi An

Tourists experience at Tra Que vegetable village

Tra Que vegetable growing village was formed in the 16th century, located 3km northeast of Hoi An ancient town. With the characteristics of a river island near the sea, surrounded by Co Co river and Tra Que lagoon, this place has a mild climate, good soil, creating favorable conditions for people to create and develop the traditional organic vegetable growing profession.

Tourism activities in Tra Que vegetable village began to emerge in 2003 with the experience tour "A day as a farmer in Tra Que vegetable village". Coming here, tourists can transform into real farmers, join the locals in hoeing the land, planting vegetables, catching worms, watering...

After working hours, visitors can enjoy a cool glass of basil juice, soak their feet in herbal water, cook with the locals and enjoy specialties served with green vegetables from the village.

In Tra Que village, famous relics such as Cham stone wells, Tho Than temple, Ngu Hanh temple... along with festivals, customs, practices and beliefs are being effectively preserved and promoted, proving the village's long-standing development process.

In addition to visiting the vegetable village, visitors can choose to stay at homestays to eat, live and work with the locals; join the morning coffee tour "Dawn on the vegetable village", "A day as a Tra Que farmer", "Cooking class and enjoying local specialties", "Practical experience" for students...

With its own unique appeal, in 2024 Tra Que vegetable village was recognized by UN Tourism as "The best tourist village in the world".

Tan Hoa - a flood-proof village emerging as a tourist destination

Coming to Tan Hoa, tourists can participate in many exciting activities.

Tan Hoa village (Quang Tri province) is famous for its beautiful landscape, limestone mountains embracing vast valleys and green grasslands.

Tan Hoa is also known for the majestic Tu Lan cave system - the setting of many famous movies such as Kong: Skull Island, The Immortal , Legend of Quan Tien...

This is the homeland of about 3,300 Nguon people, a community belonging to the Viet-Muong group. Through many ups and downs, the people here still retain their mother tongue and a rich treasure of literature and folk songs. Among them, the fish medicine song with the rhythm "hoi len la hoi len" vividly reflects the ancient community's working life.

In October 2023, Tan Hoa village was honored by UN Tourism as "The best tourist village in the world" thanks to its sustainable tourism development, while preserving and spreading unique cultural and natural values.

Coming here, visitors can participate in many exciting experiences such as exploring the Tu Lan cave system, cycling, jogging in the valley to feel the open, poetic space of the land and sky.

Visitors can also enjoy traditional dishes with strong local flavors such as Com Poi - a rustic dish made from corn, cassava or beans, sweet potato leaves, snails, eggplant...

In particular, Tan Hoa tourism has developed strongly in recent years, notably with the "weather-adaptive" homestay model inspired by flood-proof floating houses. Not only that, this place is aiming to become the first flood-proof tourist village in Vietnam and the world.

Thai Hai - a cultural space imbued with the identity of the Tay and Nung ethnic groups

Thai Hai is a place that preserves many unique stilt houses.

Although there are no luxury, high-class services or modern facilities, every year the Thai Hai Ethnic Ecological Stilt House Village Conservation Area (Thai Nguyen province) still welcomes many tourists, including many international visitors.

The attraction of Thai Hai comes from the green space spanning dozens of hectares, and more specifically the cultural space imbued with the Tay and Nung ethnic identity that is hard to find in any other tourist area.

According to Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh Hai - owner of Thai Hai Ethnic Ecological Stilt House Village Conservation Area, from a barren hill area, after many years of diligently planting trees and moving more than 30 ancient stilt houses of the Tay and Nung people from ATK Dinh Hoa, this place has become a unique stilt house village.

It is worth mentioning that among the hundreds of people living and working in the reserve, there are many people in unfortunate circumstances such as the sick, the elderly, the lonely, young people with unfinished studies...

Families living in the village together maintain their language, customs, rituals, costumes and organize traditional spiritual festivals, helping the Tay and Nung cultural identity to be naturally passed down in daily life.

Their daily work is planting trees, vegetables, tea, increasing production and participating in tourism activities, preserving the traditional cultural features of their people.

Coming here, visitors can immerse themselves in the cool space, living in traditional stilt houses located on acacia hills. Each stilt house has its own mission: herbal medicine house, green tea house, wine house, then singing preservation house…

Not only can visitors enjoy the art of Then singing, Tinh lute, participate in unique festivals, play folk games or make campfires, but they can also grow vegetables, pick tea, build stilt houses, cast nets to catch fish, pound rice with pestles, etc. to better understand the lives of the people of this land.

In 2022, Thai Hai is the first Vietnamese village to be voted by UN Tourism as " The best tourist village in the world" .

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