Vang Pheo Village

Vang Pheo Village is a White Thai ethnic village located in Muong So Commune, Phong Tho District, Lai Chau Province in northwestern Vietnam. Known for well-preserved wooden stilt houses, traditional brocade weaving and community-based tourism, it offers insight into Thai culture. Surrounded by rice fields and mountains near Phong Tho town, the village provides homestay experiences, local cuisine and cultural performances as a notable cultural tourism destination.

Visitors can expect a traditional White Thai village with rows of wooden stilt houses set among rice fields and low hills. The settlement is inhabited and offers homestays, brocade weaving demonstrations, traditional houses with open communal spaces, and views of surrounding agricultural landscape. Visitors can walk through the village lanes, observe daily activities, sample Thai cuisine and experience folk music and dance when arranged through homestays or guided tours.

Vang Pheo is a long-established White Thai settlement in the Muong So area of Phong Tho, historically part of the Thai cultural region of northwestern Vietnam. The village retains traditional stilt-house architecture and settlement patterns associated with Thai communities in Lai Chau.

The village is significant for preserving White Thai cultural traditions including stilt-house architecture, brocade weaving, folk songs and dances, and traditional cuisine. It is promoted as a community-based cultural tourism village showcasing Thai ethnic heritage in Lai Chau Province.