Growth or heritage?: The dilemma facing Vietnam’s best tourism village
Travel 11:28 24/10/2026Lo Lo Chai, a village in northern Vietnam’s Tuyen Quang Province named one of the world’s Best Tourism Villages in 2025, has seen 20 new houses built, but only three retain its traditional rammed-earth walls and yin-yang tiled roofs. As tourism grows, can the village balance the push for better facilities and business interests with the need to preserve its cultural identity?
Inside Vietnam’s yin-yang roofed stilt house village named among world’s best
Travel 09:06 28/10/2025In Lang Son Province, northern Vietnam, a unique village where hundreds of stilt houses roofed with yin-yang tiles has been recognized as one of the world’s best tourism villages in 2025.
What makes this remote village in northern Vietnam one of the world’s Best Tourism Villages 2025
Travel 20:25 23/10/2025From a remote mountain village in Vietnam’s northernmost region where people once lived off rice and corn, Lo Lo Chai has transformed through tourism and emerged as one of the world’s best tourism villages.