Cat Cat Village

As one of the most attractive scenics in Sapa, the premier trekking base of Vietnam, Cat Cat is a lovely village with peaceful views and distinctive customs and practices of the H’Mong ethnic tribe. Surrounded by rice terraces and rolling green hills, Cat Cat village is considered a great place for trekking and sightseeing, also to experience the way of life in the mountainous area.

From the center of Sapa Town, tourists can travel to Cat Cat village by foot or motorbike. Along roads to the village, tourists can enjoy the ancient architectural beauty of small houses of local residents. Houses in the villages are separated with each other by the terraced fields. The rear of houses is surrounded by green and luxuriant bamboos. The most interesting thing for tourists when visiting Cat Cat village is that they can see rice mortars using water power from streams to pounding rice.

Traditional handicrafts in Cat Cat village have been well-kept. Travelling the village, visitors will have an opportunity to witness the daily activities of ethnic peoples such as weaving, carving, making farm tools and arts and crafts. Go sightseeing in Sapa in general and Cat Cat village in particular, tourists can easily catch sight of women sitting and weaving in front of a loom with colorful pieces of brocades. Under the skillful hands of these people, colorful and beautiful brocades are created. From plain brocades, these women carefully dye them with a dyestuff made from special leaves and embroider them with beautiful patterns of flowers, leaves, animals ... In addition, H'Mong people are also very good at manipulating sophisticated gold and silver jewelry.

Cat Cat is also a village where many unique traditional cultures of Northwest Vietnam are still preserved. Some traditional festivals and customs of local people are often held annually such as Gau Tao festival and customs of "Pulling Wife". Tourists visiting Cat Cat at the beginning of a year can participate in Gau Tao festival, which aims to bless for people in the village. This is the biggest festival of the village in one year. The festival is an epitome of spiritual and cultural life of H'Mong people. Another special customs of H'Mong is "Pulling Wife". According to this customs, if a boy in the village falls in love with a girl, he will hold a party and invite his friends participating. He and his friends will make a plan bringing ("pulling") the girl to his house. He will keep the girl three days at his house, and then if the girl agrees to marry him, they will hold an official wedding. On the other hand, if the girl refuses his proposal, they will drink "a bowl of wine” and just make friend with each other.

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