Discover the beauty of Le Toan village

Hi Hivers in the Pinmapple community, today I want to take you to a village located on a mountain top, which is Le Toan. Le Toan is a village of the Xo Dang ethnic minority people located in Dak Glei district, Kon Tum province. Located in the legendary remote Ngoc Linh mountains, Le Toan is a little-known village and is set apart from other areas. I discovered this village by chance during my trip to explore Ngoc Linh mountain.

It is not easy to get to this village. On the way to explore Ngoc Linh mountain, I stopped at a beautiful lawn at the foot of the mountain. I have seen locals walking up a small path up the mountain. I thought there was a village at the top of the mountain, and I was right. I was curious and walked up that path. I must say that the road is very steep leading straight from the foot to the top of the mountain. Most of the villagers walk up and downhill if they want to get out of the village.

And when I got close to the village, I was amazed at its beauty. Le Toan is a small village located on the top of a towering mountain. As I approached the village, I felt like I was lost in a new world. At the village gate, the villagers have built 6 wooden statues and a special bamboo tree which is decorated with fine art items, I think these are to prevent evils from entering the village.

When I entered the village, the villagers seemed quite wary. They kept their distance from me, some even ran away from me and some went into the house to hide from me. Wow that was the first time I went into such an interesting village, I felt quite unsafe. But soon a man came and talked to me, luckily he spoke Vietnamese. After learning that I was a tourist, he led me around the village. After that, the villagers became friendly with me. They even offered me a beer. Only a few people in that village speak Vietnamese, and most of them have never left the village because of the geographical distance. I introduced my name as "Do Do" and they laughed a lot, maybe "Do Do" means something funny in their language.

The houses in Le Toan village are built close together and at different levels because of the mountainous terrain. From a distance this village looks like the setting of some movie. It is really beautiful. Around the village, villagers grow rice on terraced fields. The villagers have a public water intake. There they also built specially decorated bamboo trees to protect the water drawn from the top of the mountain. The villagers there really have a peaceful and happy life. They don't care about the hustle and bustle of outside life.