Want to know more about the White Thai in Mai Chau, come and join with us

Joining our Vietnam motorcycle tours to Mai Chau, you will have a chance to learn more about the White Thai ethnic group here.

To help you know more about the Thai people before starting your Vietnam motorbike rides, we would like to provide some information for you.

The Thai is the third largest ethnic group in Vietnam. In Vietnam, there are 2 different Thai groups: White Thai and Black Thai.

The Thai usually use bamboo to build their stilt houses. The roofs of the houses are traditionally thatch. Beneath the stilt houses, families keep their livestock and their looms. You will find stacks of colorful painted chests, mattresses, hand-woven blankets and pillows, rattan tables, bamboo stools, and numerous baskets in every Thai’s houses.

Mai Chau valley and its Thai ethnic culture and architecture has become a popular tourism destination. Vietnam motorbike tours to Mai Chau, where you will see a lot of Thai women on your way. Thai women are very famous for their beauty. Thai women are very easy to recognize because of their traditional dresses.  Thai women’s dress is a close-fitting skirt like a sarong and a blouse with silver clasps. The Black Thai make a traditional headscarf called a pieu. The pieu is a length of hand-woven black cloth, which is decorated with bright embroidery on either end. The black color is produced naturally from cham, or indigo. Another popular natural dye color is canh kien, which is a deep red color commonly used to make a cloth with supplementary weft called khuyt. Vietnam motorbike tours to Mai Chau, you will be very easy to recognize them.

Thai girls have to learn how to raise silk worms and to make natural dyes when they are very small. They are very skillful weaving and embroidering. If they want to marry someone, they have to make blankets, mattresses and pillow to bring to her new household.

In Mai Chau, you only see The White Thai who have a long tradition of weaving fine textiles for mattress covers and blankets. Like the black Thai they have also produces decorative pillows and trim for mosquito nets. Now women in many villages are using traditional skills to produce bright cotton scarves, the production of which has transformed the economy of their villages. Tourists of Vietnam motorcycle travel
come here like to buy the embroidered products for souvenir.

If you want to know more about the White Thai in Mai Chau, come and join with us for one of the best motorbike tours Vietnam with one night home-stay in Mai Chau.