Pom Coong Village

Pom Coong Village is situated in Mai Chau town, Mai Chau district, prompting the tourists' curiosity right from its name. Here, Thai people have known how to promote the tourism industry right from their daily life. From the stilt-houses, the daily activities to the beauty of cultural life has established and developed the tourism.

A journey to Pom Coong Village actually offers a great opportunity to explore the outstanding nature beauty and culture richness of Mai Chau, the gateway to the impressive Northwestern area of Vietnam. Mai Chau travel to the village provides both physical activity and the unique chance to observe a way of life that has changed little over the centuries. Together with Lac Village, Pom Coong Village gradually becomes the appealing tourist attraction in Mai Chau in particular and Hoa Binh tourism in general.

Like other villages of the Muong ethnic minority groups, Thai people in Pom Coong Village often concentrate in hilly areas where there are both rivers and streams. Their houses are especially leaned back the mountains and overlook to the ever-stretching rice fields in front. In addition, Thai ethnic group has long been famous for "xoe" dancing (a traditional dancing in Thai ethnic minority) and bamboo dancing. "Xoe" dancing is a kind of famous, intimate and simply dancing performance. It is one of typical characteristics of the Thai people which today has been stored and preserved. Moreover, unlike stilt-houses in other ethnic minority, the stilt-houses of Thai people are usually taller. It thus always creates clean feeling and fairly airy space. The floor is around 2m above the ground supported by extremely strong wooden pillars. The floors are usually made from the bamboo or buong. The roof is thatched or covered by rattan leaves or bricks. The windows in the house retain fairly large for welcoming the cool breezes; simultaneously, it is home to hang orchid, forest flowers, or the bird cages