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Content
1. Overview………………………………………………………..2
2. Weather …………………………………………………...……2
3. Transportation…………………………………………..…..3
4. Some famous places:
4.1. Dong Van Rocky Plateau……………………....4
4.2. Quan Ba Heaven Gate…………………………..4
4.3. Quan Ba Twin Peaks……………………………...5
4.4. H’Mong Palace………………………………………6
4.5. Dong Van Ancient Town……………………….8
4.6. Lung Cu Flag Tower………………………………9
5. Some famous foods
5.1. Dried Beef…………………………………………...10
5.2. Dried Buffalo……………………………………….10
5.3. “Au Tau” Porridge………………………………..12
5.4. “Thang Co”…………………………………………..13
5.5. Thanh Van corn wine…………………..……..14
5.6. Mint honey…………………………………………..14
6. Some famous festivals
6.1. “H’Mong Khen” Festival………………………16
6.2. “Gau Tao” Festival ………………………………17
7. Some typical groups of people
7.1. H’Mong people……………………………………18
7.2. Lolo people…………………………………………..20
7.3. La Chi People……………………………………….21
7.4. Dao people…………………………………………..22
7.5. Tay People…………………………………………...23
8. Restaurants …………………………………………………24
Address: Dong Van town
Tel: 02193 856 147
Hoang Ngoc HotelRocky Plateau Hotel
Address: Dong Van Town.
Tel: 02193.856.148
Nhi Tien Restaurant
Café ancient Town
Tel: 02193 628 822
Tel: 01293 856 868
Khai Hoan Hotel
Tel: 02193 856 020
Hotels &Restaurants
Address: Dong Van Town.
Tel: 02193.856.217
Lan Beo Restaurant

Dong Van is a northernmost
upland district of Ha Giang
province. It is about 146
kilometers far from Ha Giang. It
has a total area of 46114.05
hectares with 19 communes.
The northern and western
border China with 52
kilometers of the border; the
South borders Yen Minh
District and the East borders
Meo Vac district.
Being the northern rocky
mountainous area , Dong Van
has a quite complicated terrain.
It has steed slopes and
separated valleys, rivers and
streams. Therefore, there are a
lot of grandeur landscapes and
mountains. This place inspires
for artists to create the unique
painting about mountains, rice
terraces,...…
This area has temperate
climate with two seasons: rainy
season and dry season. In the
winter, temperature falls down
to 10°C, the highest
temperature in the summer is
only 24°C. As a result, Dong Van
is famous for delicious fruit such
as: peaches, plums, pears,
apples… and precious medicinal
plants such as: ventricles,
salmon, cinnamon…
Coming to Dong Van
district, visitors will have an
opportunity to admire the
beautiful scenery and know more
about everyday life of Dong Van
people, one of the places that
visitors should visit the Dong Van
market. Dong Van market has
trading of ethnics such as: Tay,
Nung, Han, H’Mong, Hoa, Dao,
Kinh… Moreover, visitors will has
a chance to soak into vivid
atmosphere and learn more
about the Dong Van ancient town
as well as enjoy ethnic delicious
cuisine here such as: Thang co,
triangle cake, corn wine.
Wheather
Ha Giang located in the
tropical monsoon and the high
mountain. Therefore, this
weather is cool all year around.
The average temperature of year
is from 21,6 – 23.9 degree
Celsius. Weather in Ha Giang is
separated in 2 main seasons:
rainy season and dry season. The
hot season has the highest
temperatures up to 40 degree
Celsius ( June and July ). The cold
season is characterized with the
lowest temperatures down to 2,2
degree Celsius (January). Some
places of Ha Giang has snow and
heavy fog.
Dong Van Overview
The Tay ethnic group is the
largest in the community of
ethnic minorities in Vietnam.
The Tay ethnic group has
other names such as Tho, Ngan,
Phen, Thu Lao and Pa Di.
Referring to the Tay people, we
cannot talk about the pattern on
their costumes. The most unique
is the common way of using
indigo. The main color of their
costumes is indigo and no
decorations.
Women usually wear long
skirt with belts, blouse, and cloth
shoes and round the neck, arm
and leg silver. Women's belt is
made from indigo cloth about two
arm's length. The past women
wear skirts, but recent common
dressing;
Men wear pant, short sleeve,
neck stood. In the summer
festival, they wear white blouses.
.
Today, traditional costumes
of Tay people is still the most
popular in the traditional
holidays, but many young people
still wear blouses and shirts in
normal days same as Kinh
Tay People
Dong Van Overview Typical People

Transportation
There are two passenger cars
from Thai Nguyen Station to South
Ha Giang station at 8:30am and
4:30pm. It is about 234km. They
depart every day and spend about
3 hours 48 minutes .The cost is
100 VND.
After that, we take passenger
car from South Ha Giang Station to
Dong Van. It is about 139km. It
spends about 2,5 hours. When we
arrive Dong Van, we can rent
motorbike to continue our route.
Taxi: From Ha Giang Station,
we can take a taxi to our hotel. In
the city, there are many different
taxis. One of the most popular taxi
is Taxi Son Dan (phone
02193861861).
White – trousers Dao
White-trousers Dao
wear black trousers, are
distinguished by their white
richly-embroidered. The hair
is tied up in a bun and
covered by a black scarf.
The Black Dao
Their black trousers with
black jackets decorated at
the sleeves and collars with
thin bands of embroidery,
coins and beads.
Red Dao
Their black trousers
embroidered with flower or
small star patters. Their
jackets can be red or black
and embroidered borders.
Specially, they usually wear a
black or red turban which can
either be decorated with
tassels or bells.
Coin Dao
The Coin Dao people
usually pay great attention to
the combination of silver
jewelry on their clothes.
Specially, their blouses and
headscarves are decorated
with silver coins .Coin Dao
girls seem more beautiful in
new radiant costumes and
silver jewellery items.
Dao people
Typical People Dong Van Overview

La Chi ethnic group has
other names as Tho Den, Man,
Xa. Their language belongs to
the Ka dai language group The
La chi ethnic group are the
longest inhabitants in Ha Giang
province.
Costumes of La Chi people
have two main features is
patterned embroidered fabric
and patterned transplant. The
favorite color of the La Chi
people is black indigo.
Whereas, patterned graft is
considered the art of traditional
costumes of La Chi people. The
women wear a long dress with
four panels. .They like to wear
long scarves and earrings,
bracelets.
The men wear long robes
which are made from five pieces
of clothing .They wear turbans
and bracelets.
Overall, their traditional
costumes have high
requirements about motifs.
La Chi People
Dong Van rocky plateau
spreads over four districts of
Quan Ba, Yen Minh, Dong Van,
Meo Vac in Ha Giang province.
Dong Van rocky plateau is a
special limestone area which has
traces of the development of the
earth, natural phenomena,
gorgeous landscapes, high
biodiversity and longstanding
cultural traditions of the locals.
On 3/10/2010 "Geo-parks
Dong Van Plateau" was officially
recognized as a Global Geo-park
by UNESCO. This is the only
title in Vietnam and the second
one in the southeast Asia. Dong
Van Rocky Plateau is qualified to
become a global geo-park with
geological conditions, natural
resource and original and
impressive cultures such as the
cultures of H’Mong, Lo Lo, Pu
Peo and Dao ethnic groups.
Many Vietnamese and
foreign visitors have decided to
explore the 1,500-square-
kilometer plateau. The area,
formed by limestone, is an
evidence for the formation of
the Earth, which took place over
400 million years ago. The trip
to Dong Van will give us new and
interesting experience.
Quan Ba Heaven Gate is
located at a height of 1500m
over sea level. In 1939, the
French built a stone wall and a
enormous wooden gate. This is
the first gateway coming to
Dong Van plateau.
The first thing we could feel
here is the fresh air. From a
height of 1500 meters we
could take a look down to the
valley, home of forested hills,
secret grottoes and caves,
colorful orchids, plum and
peach trees, persimmon
orchards, medicinal plants … a
landscape of great beauty.
Also here, visitors will enjoy
local culinary specialties,
listening folk songs of ethnicity
living in the Quan Ba and take a
tour in to the villages nearly.
It can be said that this is a
very beautiful painting which
shows the blend between
Heaven and Earth. That make
the spectacular landscape with
mountains covered with clouds.
The trip will be imperfect if
we visit Dong Van without
going to Quan Ba Gate.
Dong Van rocky plateau Quan Ba Heaven
Gate
Famous Places Typical People

Twin peaks in spring
Twin peaks in winter
Typical People Famous Places
There are two types of
Lolo ethnic group in Dong Van-
Lolo “Hoa” and Lolo “Đen”.
When speaking about the
unique cultural of Lolo ethnic
groups, many people often
refer to the traditional dress of
Lolo women.
Lolo women usually have
trousers on and shirts cleft
chest to hem, stuck together by
square or triangle pieces of
colorful cloth.
The belt is delicately made
and it’s very important in
dress-style. For Lolo “Hoa”
women’s dress, the sleeves lock
smaller than those of Lolo
“Đen”
Particularly, their belts are
nicely decorated, their scarves
are colorful embroidered and it
takes them much of their time
and strength to prepare such
costumes
On new-year days,
weddings or festive occasions,
Lolo women put on their best
and well-made clothes.
Lolo People Quan Ba Twin Peaks
Quan Ba Twin Peaks is
situated next to the National
Road 4C, about 40 km from Ha
Giang Town. It is situated at an
altitude of over 1000 meters
above sea level, fresh air, wild
scenery, majestic nature with
endlessly range of Limestone
Mountain. Coming here, visitors
can admire the artwork endowed
by Creator to the land.
Among the stretching
mountains and continuous
terraced fields, two mountains
are raised in shape of two
peaches. Everyone will be amazed
at the extraordinary beauty given
by the Creator, which has been
associated with the legend “Fairy
Mountain”.
With beautiful landscape and
fresh air Quan Ba Twin Peaks is
becoming an attractive resort
tourism area in Dong Van as well
as in Ha Giang.
Twin peaks in autumn
Twin peaks in summer

Position
The palace of H’Mong King is
located in Sa Phin commune,
Dong Van district next to 4C
highway on Ha Giang city street
to Dong Van,. It is about 131
kilometers from Ha Giang
province and about 13
kilometers from Dong Van town.
History
The position of the house was
defined by Chinese geomancer
on a hillock in the valley and
behind the mountain which is in
shape of “raspberry” . This place
is surrounded by the high
mountains. A century ago, Vuong
family ruled totally this extensive
plateau and was named as the
King . H’Mong group of people
was called as H’Mong King . To
affirm the role and power , Vuong
Chinh Duc (Vuong Chi Sinh’s
father) went to everywhere to
find workers for building his
house. Chinese geomancers
from Van Nam and a group of the
best H’Mong workers had built
H’Mong King’s house for 8 years
(1920 – 1928).
Architecture
The palace of H’Mong King
is a splendid palace with original
architecture. The palace has
outstanding architecture and is
imbued with the cultural
features of ancient Vietnamese
people and H’Mong ethnic
group.
The palace is covered with
two rounds of stone wall . The
outer wall is about 40
centimeters thick and 2 meters
(6 feet) tall. The inner wall is
thicker and stronger than the
outer.
It spreads over an area
1200m2. There are three main
stilt houses in the palace with 4
horizontal rows, 6 vertical rows
and 64 different rooms.
All the three houses are
made from wood. Their pillars
trusses, floor, wattles and roofs
are made from precious wood.
Over the sunny, rain, storm
and wind, in hard climatic
conditions over 1600m high,
Vuong family’s palace retains
the old form and the historical
value.
Palace of H’Mong King
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H’Mong people - ethnic
group most popular in Ha Giang
and Dong Van. Speaking of
H’Mong people in Dong Van, it
is impossible not to mention the
traditional clothes of H’Mong
people.
Beside, all the colors and
patterns, H’Mong people also
like to decorate their clothes
with metal coins that are
carefully attached to
waistbands, leggings, hats with
colorful strings.
When the New Year comes,
H’Mong girls make waistbands
with many coins to decorate
their dresses. A family’s
economic status can be gauged
from the number of coins in
their dresses
Buttock flapping
Every spring, festivals of
H’Mong people are more
interesting, because of having
the festival of “buttock flapping”
– a tradition that had
disappeared for many years. The
custom of “buttock flapping” is
only observed on the first days
of the New Year.
Drawing a woman aside
Beside, H’Mong people is
also well- known for the
special custom that is drawing
a woman aside to get married
with her. This custom happens
only in case of without her
parent’s permission for
marriage, therefore, both man
and woman decide together to
perform this drawing custom
in order to make her become
his wife.
H’Mong People
Clothes Creed
Typical People Famous Places

Along with the Hoi An, Pho
Hien ancient town ...etc. Dong
Van ancient town is the cultural
heritage of our country's
highlands. it has existed for
hundreds years old at the
central of Dong Van rocky
mountain plateau . With the
ancient architecture, it is the
pride of Vietnamese culture.
The old Dong Van centre
area used to belong to Dong
Quan, Nguyen Binh, Tuong Yen,
Tuyen Quang. In the past, Tay,
H’Mong, Hoa, Kinh,
Lolo…gathered in Dong Van.
since 1887, French had ruled
Ha Giang and had set out four
areas in Dong Van which were
delivered to the local leaders to
govern. In that time, Dong Van
ancient town had been built
with an unique ancient
Vietnamese architecture style.
The unique architectural of
the old town at the Highlander
is the houses built 1- 2 floors
with two yin-yang roofed tiles
upon the solid truss structure ,
stone sub-foundation, earthen
walls and large columns . Many
houses were built under the
French and were made from
wood.
Therefore, they have remain
"inert liver and minnows moon".
A more noticeable feature in
Dong Van ancient town is that
there are many red lanterns
hanged in front of houses to
light up at night and dispel the
harsh cold of Plateau.
Dong Van Market works is a
combination of Vietnamese-
Chinese architecture . It
includes stone colonnades,
which diameter of is large
enough for four people to hug,
carved beautifully with U-
shaped structure.
From statistic of Dong Van
district, there are about 40
ancient houses currently. one of
the oldest houses is Luong
family's, which is about 300
years old, and the rest of houses
are approximately 100 years
old.
Dong Van ancient town is a
fascinating tourist destination in
the north of our country, which
preserved the oldest customs &
usages and the value of the
unique intangible cultural of
ethnic minorities.
Dong Van Ancient Town
“Gau Tao” festival is the
most typical festival of H’Mong
people. It is held after the 2nd
of
January lunar year, lengthening
from one to three days on the
relatively flat hills. This is a
picture of spiritual and cultural
life – physical of ethnic H’Mong.
The purpose of “Gau Tao”
festival is to pray happiness,
lucky for their life and family.
Opening ceremony is
dancing with pan-pipe, the
following part, songs are shown
by an old man who represented
the people in the village and
other ones.
At the end of ceremony,
main part is really exciting on
over the hill. Especially dancing
with pan-pipe, to be performed
on a pole, these artists are
impressed viewers with
dangerous performance such as
blending their body over a pole
that is overpass a pan of “Thang
Co”…
Although festival ended but
ethnic people had still done until
January full moon, after
thatbeginning productive labor.
“Gau Tao” Festival
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Lung Cu flag tower is a
national flag at the top of Lung Cu
Mountain also known as Dragon
Mountain. It is in a height of
about 1,700m over sea level. It
belongs to Lung Cu commune at
the northernmost point of the
Vietnam. The flag tower is about
22km from Dong Van town.
Lung Cu flagpole appeared at
the first time in Ly dynasty then it
was re-built and completed in
2010 .The flag tower is designed
in octagonal shape. Its foot is
mounted 8 blue slaps of stone
reliefs with 8 surfaces of drums
above illustrating the stages of
the historical period of the
country and the customs of the
Ha Giang people. Besides, there
is a spiral staircase inside the
shaft of flag tower to the top. The
most important thing is that
flag’s area is 54 square meters
representing 54 groups of people
in Vietnam.
At the bottom of the tower,
you can see China on the other
side of the mountains. Looking
down from here, there are two
ponds on two sides of the
mountains which never dry up
during the year and is the source
of water for the use of the local
people.
One of the most popular
festival in Dong Van, Ha giang is
“H’Mong Khen” festival often
occurring in 3 days (31/8-2/9).
It attracts thousands of people
participating in, but most of
them are the young who love to
travel and explore. It opens
annually at 19:30 on
August,31st
at the stage of Dong
Van ancient town.
In the next morning, there
are a lot of fantastic “H’Mong
Khen” dances for people to
enjoy. The traditional
instrument in this festival is
“Khen”, a kind of instrument of
H’Mong people. The “khen”
sound not only connects the
deities with people, the dead
and the live, but also leads the
dead to their ancestors.
Moreover, “Khen” sound often
is used by H’Mong boys to
express their love to H’Mong
girls. Especially, it helps them to
build a happy family. Therefore,
the “Khen” has been inherited
through many generations and
now it still remains original
values. This festival is an
opportunity for artisans to
exchange, preserve and
develop human beauty of the
“Khen”.
“Khen” Dance Festival
And it also contributes to
develop tourism of Dong Van
Rocky Plateau. Coming to this
festival, you not only enjoy
“Khen” dances but also join in
some interesting folk games
such as: pushing stick, beating
ball, fighting Nightingale, tug,
throwing “Con”,… Furthermore,
you can watch cuisine
competition of ethnic groups
and taste some special foods
like: “Thang Co”, corn wine,
Dried meat,… This is also a place
to sightsee colorful garment
products : skirts, shirts, pants,
fabrics, scarves, hats, shoes
made by H’Mong, Lo Lo, Tay,
Dao,… These products and
other ones are performed, sole
during this festival. This makes
“Khen” festival more active,
more colorful, and more
attractive.
This festival is really a
wonderful occasion for anyone
enthusing to explore culture of
ethnic minorities in Dong Van
Rocky Plateau.
Lung Cu flag tower
Famous Festivals Famous Places
There are totally 839 stairs to
the top of the tower
It’s in a height of 33.15
meters. its foot is about 20.25
meters. The diameter of outer
tower is about 3.8 meters .

Famous Delicacies and Drinks
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“Thang Co” is traditional
and popular dish of Mong
people in many mountainous
areas of Dong Van. It is made
from different parts of beefs
and goats including heads, legs,
internal organs, and all meat
together cooked with herbal
and eating with “Men Men”,
Corn cakes. “Thang Co” will be
delicious more than with a
bowl of corn wine.
This dish is not only good –
smelling but also a subculture
of the ethnic group...
In the cold fog of the
mountainous region, enjoying a
hot bowl of dish and a cup of
wine is a so great thing.
“Thang Co” is an
indispensable dish at H’Mong
ethnic markets. Eating the dish
frequently, people will become
addicted in it. The process of
cooking this dish is not simple.
Firstly, the meat and offal are
cut into small pieces.
Then all the ingredients are
poured in a big pot of water.
They are boiled in a pan for
instance. We can add the
vegetables, spices in this dish.
And cooking lasts about half
the day
Thanh Van corn wine is made
from fermented corn leaves,
the source of pure water from
the mountains. It is produced
by traditional manual methods
of local people. Wine specialty
Ngo Thanh Van is mountainous,
flavor characteristics, good,
cool ... Guests from anywhere
like to enjoy it. This is also a
meaningful gift to give your
friends after a trip.
Mint honey is a special
honey, only in Dong Van Rocky
plateau global geo-park. This
kind of honey has delicate taste
of mint, much more light
sweetness than other honey.
Mint honey is said to be special
pharmaceutical to strengthen
health, curing respiratory
illness, digestive troubles. Mint
honey is special produce, only
in rocky region with average
height of 1,200m over sea level.
According to ancient
experiences, hint honey can
also cure obesity, anxiety, dry
cough and laryngitis. Mint
honey can be bactericide,
curing burned. Especially, mint
honey of high land can be used
to wipe furrow, soften skin and
make skin ruddy.
“Thang Co”
“
Mint Honey
Thanh Van corn wine
Famous Food
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Dried beef is a kind of
unique reserved food of ethnic
minorities in the northern
mountainous area of Ha Giang
province in general and of
Dong Van district in particular.
With local people and tourists,
dried beef has become a special
food that any visitor arriving to
this area wants to buy as a gift
along with mint honey and corn
wine.
However, to make a pure
kilogram of dried beef like the
local people's one, we need to
prepare beef which is thigh
meat, bright red, select spices
such as: salt, fresh garlic,
ginger. We have to mix spices
suitably. The upland dried beef
has shiny brown, a thin layer of
sooty around the outer
surface, and it is smoky, tough,
fragrant.
After 15 days of hanging
above the stove, the dried beef
can be processed to eat.
.
Dried buffalo is special
food in the meals of Black
Thai. This meat is usually
made from muscle of
buffaloes and cows freely on
the northwest mountains.
When making it, people cut
meat into pieces with the
grain then smoked by
charcoal from the mountains.
With the dried buffalo, the
flavor of smoke is almost
intact. The processing
techniques are traditional
secret but products are quite
homogeneous. People use
some spices such as pepper,
ginger, especially “Mac Khen”-
a type of forest pepper of
northwest upland ethnic
minorities.
You can contemplate the
spices in each meat. Dried
meat still retains the flavor
characteristics, especially, the
sweetness of the meat. When
people often shred with the
grain, it can eat immediately
or use with corn wine. This
dish is made completely
natural, so it can reserve
about 1 month.
Dried Buffalo
In Dong Van, there are many
unique dishes that visitors
cannot forget. Bitter porridge
or “Au Tau” porridge is special
dish. Tourists can enjoy all
flavors in a bowl of porridge:
flavors of “Au Tau”, leaf spices…
Bowl of “Au Tau” porridge
looks very attractive by the
harmony between rice, herbs,
meat… Cooking “Au Tau”
porridge is not simple. “Au Tau”
after washing in the water, it is
stewed during 4 hours.
Glutinous rice mixed with some
rice then soak into stewed
water of pig’s trotters and “Au
Tau”. Add a little spice. The
porridge has bitter taste so
that people call bitter porridge.
Many people come to Dong
Van, if they have been enjoying
once they will seek to eat again.
“Au Tau” porridge is not only
the normal dish but also a tonic
medicine to cure sick. Bitter
porridge in Dong Van has had
all time in the year, but it sold
only at night. In the winter,
sitting in a warm space and
enjoying the “Au Tau” porridge
is exciting and suitable for
people who love exploring new
things.
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