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A traditional village renowned for its incense-making craft, where visitors can engage with the Nùng ethnic community and experience local culture.
Phia Thap Village, home to 50 families from the Nung ethnic minority in Cao Bang Province, is surrounded by green rice paddy fields and mountains. The village offers you a fresh living environment with Nung ethnic culture including food, living lifestyle, and experience a traditional handcraft which is insense making. No one knows the founder of this traditional craft, incense making has been inherited from generation to generation, creating work that is well known for every villager. Phia Thap incense is made entirely from natural materials in karst regions, including: Bamboo trees (“may muoi” in Tay language) for making sticks, bark of bombax ceiba tree, and sawdust and especially leaves of the wild tree named “bau hat” to make glue for bonding the materials together.
Phia Thap Village is located on the trekking routes offered by VRTO with standard homestays for tourists. From this village, you can trek/bike to other nearby villages to try doing some traditional handicrafts such as paper making, title making, basket weaving, and blacksmith.
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