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Ba Be national park
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The road from Thai Nguyen to
Bac Kan
is in pretty good condition and passes
through some very scenic areas, esp. the
bowl-shaped tea hills. Among all the
regions planting green tea for domestic
use and export in
Vietnam, Thai Nguyen
offers the best and sometime you may
mistake that the Vietnamese is keen on
foreign products if they mention about
the excellent "Thai tea".
Ba Be Lake have a water area around
500ha, spreading over 8km, as biggest
natural water lake in Vietnam, situated
in Cho Ra-Ba Be-Cho Don carste terrain
pertaining to lowlying lands of Vietnam
North raising mass. This raising mass
was formed from the destruction of South
East Asia continental mass at the end of
Cambri era, around 200 million years
ago. Due to its special geological
constitution, the Lake has very original
and special features compared with other
world-wide carster lakes :world carster
lakes are spent or only with one-season
water, while Ba Be Lake has its
permanent full-water.
The only real sight in Bac Kan is
Ba Be
Lakes, 230km from
Hanoi and 80km to the
Northwest of Bac Kan town. "Ba Be" means
"three seas", an ornate expression which
just means the three big lakes. It's
several kilometer from Ba Be Guesthouse
to the Main Wharf, from which you can
rent a boat and turn right to row or run
along the Nang River. The river trip is
a marvel: there are a clear flow and a
muddy flow, which (incredibly) do not
mix, on the same riverbed (!); and you
can either jump in the clear water for a
swim or simply lye on the boat
contemplating the wonderful untouched
nature surrounding with bamboo clusters,
lianes and flowers along the riversides
and watching the fishermen in their
piraguas fishing aquatic products. After
3km you will reach Puong Cave, a
mysterious sight with twilightful
stalagtites and stalagmites, which seems
like the end of the river. But if you
meander by boat some 300m inside, the
river will be finally opened and you
escape from the cave. It takes you an
hour more to reach Dau Dang Waterfall
that is quite sightworthy. Reaching the
lakes is going upstream from Dau Dang,
turning right to a small flow, then
going ahead 1km more.
The Lake Zone, 8km long and 3km wide,
set in a picturesque national park and
contain 3 lakes surrounded by vertical
rock walls, from which many currents
fall down between many kinds of creepers
cling, and a wild forest where many
species of birds abound. If you have
time, you can also have another visit to
a village-on-stilt by taking a boat from
the Main Wharf and turn left, go for 4km
till you reach the small village's
watering place and get some experience
of a working day of the farmer and
fishermen over here.
Cao Bang town is in
the proximity of the Chinese border
which recently made it a veritable boom
town with quite new flash The only
reason to stop at Cao Bang is to
recharge your batteries for a bit before
reaching other sight worthy points in the
neighbourhood, of which
Ban Gioc
Waterfall is the best.
Located right on Quy Son river which
divides the two countries, from where
you can either see and reach China. Ban
Gioc is a bone of border contention. At
over 90 km from Cao Bang and more than 2
hours driving each way, it worths a full
day's outing and looks spectacular in
the rainy season, i.e. May to September,
but not so exciting in the rest of the
year. Another attraction is
Pac Bo Cave,
54 km to the Northwest of Cao Bang, also
next to the Chinese border. It was the
base of Ho Chi Minh and his comrades
after he returned to Vietnam in 1941
after 30 years living and acting in
revolutionary movements overseas to
encourage all supports for the
Vietnamese patriots. |
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