Tan Van Community consists of 6 villages with 400 houses and 3000 inhabitants. Main source of income for the minorities is rice cultivating on Terraced rice field. They grown normal rice and also some glutinous sweet rice (long stalk as above) and only harvest once a year only. Women and children make brocade clothes for own usage and perfume incense for sales.
Colors of rice fields indicate the time for harvesting.
Natural environment is relatively environmentally unspoiled.
Various plots are now ready to harvest. The normal harvesting period usually is in the fall season between Sept to November each year.
It is really a good time to visit the village when rice fields are in different green shade like this.
Chicken in freedom!
Squash
Vegetation
Typical home with ducklings' water pond and a 'stable' for their buffalo.
There are services for home stay and usually is a 3 section wooden houses of Day family. It is a custom for Day's group to stick paper with parallel sentences on the house walls to wish good luck and happiness for family members.
My young H'Mong "road guide" was demonstrating the way they wear the socks.
Where ever there is a village, there is source of water.
Ta Van Day Cultural tourism village located in the center of commune. Over the bridge is a block of simple building which most probably is considered as a trading place for tourists to have some simple food and for the locals to do some sales with tourists.
Over the other side of the river is Ta Van Day cultural tourism village, which of course is also the center of their commune.
Tourists are winded up by adults and kids from ethnic minorities, peddling small metal or silver trinkets, embroidered pillow cases and friendship bands.
Though short in materials, they are happy people.
Children from ethnic minority begin to support families financially at an age as young as 5-6 years old. The girls having my sweet in mouth still non-stop peddling their friendship bands to me. Tourists are not encouraged to buy things from kids as if they can earn money for the family, the chance of getting education will be less. Majority of the kids here are not going to school.
A sweet makes a little kid happy and smile, I should have brought more.
There are more than 8 main ethnic minority group in Sapa. The great difference is their costume is their turban and the similar part is their big large hearings.
Bundles of timber being carried home in motorbike, are mainly used as fire wood for cooking and doing daily chores.
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