Cao Bang Vietnam

Cao Bang is one of the least-explored travel destinations in northeast Vietnam. It is home to the most beautiful waterfall in the country, the Ban Gioc and many historical site depicting the life of Ho Chi Minh.

Cao Bang has a diverse topography with lush forest, green valleys, high karst mountains which feature the potential for adventures and ecotourism.
The most well known attractions of Cao Bang are: Ban Gioc waterfall, Nguom Ngao Cave, Tra Linh Lake, Thang Hen lake and mountain. Besides, the colorful culture of Tay, Nung and 9 other ethnic minorities are also the main draw for travelers to visit the area.

Ban Gioc Waterfall, said to be the most superb and largest waterfall in Vietnam. From the height of more than 30 meters, a huge volume of water runs down and makes the echo that can be heard some kilometers away.

Nguom Ngao Cave, an enormous cave next to Ban Gioc Waterfall. Thang Hen Lake, a large lake that can be visited year round. And what you get to see varies according to different seasons. There are opportunities for good walking day around this area and interesting exploration on bamboo rafts.

Pac Bo Cave is 60km North West of Cao Bang and 3km from the Chinese border. Pac Bo is known nationwide as a revolutionary resistance base. The main historical relics in this area consists of Coc Bo cave, Lenin stream, Cac Mac mountain, Bo Bam cave, Co Rac ground, and Khuoi Nam, where Ho Chi Minh directly trained cadres and held many tactical meetings. Your trip will be more enjoyable if you have time to visit the ancient hamlets of the Tay, Nung, Dao, H'mong and San Chi ethnic groups and explore their distinctive customs.

Our suggestion:
- The best way to explore Cao Bang is to enjoy either motorcycle adventure or trekking with 4 Wheel drive support.
- Doing homestay and try your best to taste some famous special dishes of Cao Bang would be your highlighted experience here


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Babe Lake Vietnam

Babe Lake is located in Babe national park, a beautiful area of Bac Kan province. This is home to many friend ethnic minorities and some of the most astonishing landscapes in northern Vietnam.
Babe is well known as one of the best place to enjoy Eco Tours, trekking adventures with different trekking trails and incredible jungle routes.

Photo from Cuong Tran Photography

To reach the lake, it takes a long ride for 240km from Hanoi and part of the road is in bad condition. Babe lake offers chances to stay from 1 to 5 days with great outdoors.
Motorcycling adventurers also choose this place as one of the best base to continue to Cao Bang or Ha Giang province.

Ba Be Lake have a area of water surface around 500ha, with 8 km in length and 1 km in width it is known as the biggest natural lake in Vietnam, situated in Ba Be district – carster terrain pertaining to low-lying lands of North Vietnam raising mass. This raising mass was formed by the destruction of South East Asia continental mass at the end of Cambri era, around 250 million years ago. Due to its special geological constitution, the Lake has very original and special features compared with other world-wide karster lakes: world karster lakes are spent or only with one-season water, while Ba Be Lake has its permanent full-water.
Ba Be National Park takes a 23,340ha area in 7 communes of Ba Be district, Bac Can province to the Northeast of
Hanoi. The terrain covers most of limestone rocks inserted with a few earth hills with medium to abrupt slope, the lake is around 150-1,535m above sea level.

Ba Be Lake is in the Ba Be National Park Center with likely special configuration contracted in the middle and swollen out on the two ends, surrounded by cliffs with very original and attractive forms and shapes. Through influenced by 3 rivers flows discharging their water into the Lake, lake water remain always blue and its current velocity is kept on at 0,5m/sec. giving the take both lake and river characteristics.

The lake has an average depth from 20 to 40 m. Lake bed is not plain but with much of submersible mounts and grottoes. There are ideal home ranges for aquatic animals.

According to primary survey documents, There are 417 species of trees including 300 branches, 114 families. Also, you can see popularly hundreds of orchids and species of medicine-plants. The system of animals including; land, aquatic and flying animals covering 319 species of animals in 27 forms, 85 families in which 42 species recorded in Vietnam Red Book.

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