Recently, a festival entitled “Muong Lo Culture and Tourism Week” was launched, with the participation of local people. People from 13 brotherly ethnic minority groups in colorful dress and headscarves from remote hamlets went to the festival, which was welcomed by locals as a large and important event and an opportunity for them to restore their cultural traditions.

Muong Lo can be seen as the original place of the Vietnamese ethnic community of the Thai minority. Although Thai people live here and there throughout the Northern Mountainous region, the Thai people in Muong Lo have preserved their unique ethnic culture and traditions the most. All of their cultural features, from their houses on stilts, brocade making, traditional clothes to their kitchen, folk music and songs are typical and impressive. Especially, the traditional charming dance of Xoe performed by young pretty girls and wine drunk out of a jar through pipes make visitors feel welcome and excited, and help them remember the land forever.

If tourists come to a Thai village during a festival, they will be invited by local girls to join in their traditional dance around a fire. In the dance, following the drum music, people join hands in a circle and move around the fire. Although the dance is quite simple, participants will feel friendlier and happy as they will be able to forget their worries and anxieties and harmonise themselves with locals and nature.