A few years ago, Cơ Tu villagers in Nam Giang District could not imagine that their community’s daily activities could bring them a significant income source. By sharing their rice preparation, rattan knitting, cooking, singing and dancing with tourists, they make money while preserving traditions.

Apart from bánh chưng (square cake), there are many other delicacies that have become popular over a thousand or more years. They include phu thê cake, mướt rolls, and sừng trâu (buffalo horn) cake.

Rượu cần (wine stored in a big jar and drunk with long bamboo straws) is popular among ethnic minorities in the north, northwest and Central Highlands of Việt Nam.

The Việt Nam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment (VACNE) has recognised a group of 400 Pơ Mu (Fokienia hodginsii) trees in the forest of mountainous Tây Giang District in Quảng Nam Province as Heritage Trees.

An exhibition displaying the development of ethnic groups living in the Central Highlands has opened to the public at the Đà Nẵng Fine Arts Museum at 78 Lê Duẩn street.

A few years ago, Cơ Tu villagers in Nam Giang District could not imagine that their community's daily activities could bring them a significant income source. By sharing their rice preparation, rattan knitting, cooking, singing and dancing with tourists, they make money while preserving traditions. Hồng Minh reports.

Local people help hikers to reach the top of Nhìu Cồ San mountain. It is two thousand nine hundred and sixty-six metres high.

French photographer Rehahn plans to build a Cơ Tu Museum offering information on the ethnic group living in the mountainous areas of Quảng Nam Province in the centre of the province’s Tây Giang district. The museum will become a display of Cơ Tu culture and rendezvous point for festivals among the ethnic groups living in the province, Thừa Thiên-Huế and Laos.