The week of Cuc Phuong great thousand and the cultural and sports festival of ethnic minorities in Nho Quan district in 2022, opening on April 29, will welcome tourists back to the holiday with many new things, in addition to the “specialties” of the season. butterflies fly in the forest.

The week of Cuc Phuong Dai thousand falls in the right butterfly season in this national park – Photo: MINH DUC

The week will have performances of gong dance, stall dance; mass art exchanges of the participating delegations; music night; mass art performances, and sports activities such as men’s volleyball, women’s volleyball, tug of war…

Nho Quan district (Ninh Binh) has about 29,000 people who are Muong ethnic people (accounting for 15% of the district’s population) and the special thing is that the Muong villages here are still very well preserve their ethnic culture. The ceremony promises to have many interesting discoveries for visitors.

Visitors explore the Ancient Cave in the middle of Cuc Phuong National Park – Photo: T.DIEU

Having just invested in a high-class resort in Cuc Phuong commune, Nho Quan district with the motto of harmony with nature, preserving indigenous culture to serve tourism development, Mr. Le Quoc Thinh – director of the company Cuc Phuong tourism service joint stock – is glad to show that in Nho Quan district there are still many intact Muong villages.

Only one thing that has changed in recent years when Cuc Phuong tourism has developed more is that the life of the Muong people has been significantly improved when they both participate in the production and provide tourism services. bring cassava tubers, potatoes, home-grown and raised chickens to the front of the house to sell to tourists”.

In addition to the cultural attraction, Cuc Phuong Dai Thousand Week is also attractive to visitors because Cuc Phuong National Park itself – a garden that has received the title of Asia’s top national park for 2 years in a row voted by the World Travel Awards. year 2019, 2020) .

The largest bamboo house project in the North of architect Vo Trong Nghia has just been completed in Cuc Phuong Commune, Nho Quan district, Ninh Binh province – Photo: CTV

This tourist attraction is not only famous in the country and the world for its conservation of rare flora and fauna and cultural relics identified from the Neolithic… but also has a special advantage with the butterfly season. in April-May.

After the end of the wet rainy season, butterflies will flock to fly over a forest, especially when it is sunny after days of heavy rain.

There are about 400 species of butterflies of all kinds of butterflies here, such as star butterfly, phoenix butterfly… If the number of individuals is individual, this number must be up to millions.

In addition to check-in with colorful butterfly wings, visitors will be able to participate in the model of Cuc Phuong’s interesting maze ; folk games such as swings seesaws… in this fascinating national park.

Those who like “luxury” tourists will also be satisfied because recently, the Nho Quan district has created many favorable mechanisms, policies and conditions to attract businesses and individuals to invest in the industry. smokeless industry.

Few people expect that, right at the edge of Cuc Phuong forest, the rocky beach that was previously only abandoned, without the shadow of any trees or grass, is now an eco-resort with lots of shade, and architectural works. Unique architecture was designed by famous and rigorous architect Vo Trong Nghia.

This place not only has the largest bamboo construction in the North made up of 110,000 bamboo trees, worked by 80 people in 2 years, won 3 international architecture awards.

The 5-star hotel designed by architect Vo Trong Nghia in Cuc Phuong was once called the ‘headquarters of the ward committee’ – Photo: T.DIEU

It also has a hotel area designed by architect Vo Trong Nghia with architectural language full of personality, and deep gray colors lurking among the green of the mountains.

Initially, when hiring architect Vo Trong Nghia to design, Mr. Le Quoc Thinh was fed up with “not wanting to see” the design drawings. Mr. Thinh wanted to put here a sparkling, luxurious, and eye-catching building, not a cold gray building with “monotonous” architectural blocks like the “headquarters of the ward committee”.

But then more and more Mr. Thinh became more and more attracted by works like “this ward committee office” in Cuc Phuong forest.