Ba Be lake - Tips for experience real nature in Vietnam

Ba Be Lake – Nature Experience

I visited Ba be lake with my mom and my younger brother.

Living in Hanoi, a city of 5 million people with Vietnameses and Foreigners is kind of tired, so sometimes you want to get away from urban fatigue, want to go somewhere to be in harmony with nature.

There are so many places to hide with nature, but it would be very flimsy if you missed Ba Be Lake, where I chose to hide in the moments when I felt so tired and tattered.

In a place called Ba Be you can eat together, stay with the friendly people in the traditional stilt house. Thong on the dugout canoes on the calm lake, stopping to see the caves with legendary stories.

And to start a "urban voyage, " take a quick glance at my Ba Be travel experiences.

What time should you travel to Ba Be Lake?

Ba Be is a national park with the harmony of mountains and rivers. A beautiful landscape in the North. With cool mountain air, you can come to Ba Be at any time of the year.

So come to the summer to enjoy the cool of Ba Be Lake. A typical trip is about 3 days (by car or motorbike).

Ba Be lake travel by car

I will just tell the tips to reach Ba Be lake from Ha Noi, if you are from different provinces in Vietnam, you should find the way by yourself.

From Hanoi to Ba Be about 234km. With the bus, you can catch the bus at My Dinh or Gia Lam, ask the car to Cho Ra, to Cho Ra you catch the motorbike to Ba Be.

If you drive to Bac Kan overnight, you have to stay in Bac Kan for the next morning to Ba Be (with this option you have to take care of the motel and car to BB carefully). With the 3-day program, you spent 2 days traveling and returning, day 2 to Ba Be Lake. Go Ba Be along the same route with Cao Bang, you can refer to the car garage to the Northwest North here. With your own car, you are free to drive to Ba Be on the way to stop at the beautiful scenery. Also with private car you can take the road through Cho Don to Ba Be.

With the Three Rivers, you can go for 2. 5 days over the weekend. Run a car Friday night to Bac Kan to sleep, there are many hotels and inns here, prices from 150k - 300k / night. Day 2 runs early to Ba Be, check in and rent a boat to visit. Day 3, visit the village, drive back to Hanoi in Cho Don. To save time you should combine a trip to Ban Gioc and Ba Be Waterfalls, see also Experience going to Ban Gioc Waterfall.

Experience Going to Ban Gioc

When sitting on the boat to visit Ba Be Lake you will not be surprised before the scenery, the tranquility of nature where every day passes so people forget the sorrow of life. During the cruise on Ba Be Lake you will be able to visit the beautiful places such as: Hua Ma cave, tourist group Ao Tien, Phu Gia May island (Ba Ga island), Puong cave, Dau Dang waterfall...

Attractions in Ba Be Lake

Puong Cave: The most beautiful and worth seeing in Ba Be Lake. The cave has a length of 300 m, higher than 30 m. High caves and boats can move in, the stalactites in the cave create a lot of interesting shapes, attractive visitors. In addition, there are tens of thousands of bats living and living in the cave.

Dau Dang Waterfall: The Nang River is blocked by hundreds of large rocks that have to split into many small streams, water flowing to form a majestic Dau River. The waterfall is more than 1, 000 meters long with three stone steps, each varying about 3 to 4 meters in length, giving a wild and romantic look to Ba Be.

Hua Ma cave, also known as "Hang Dong, " is located about 10km south of Ba Be National Park. This is a large cave with attractive beauty, bring in the heart of the mysterious past.

Ao Tien: From Ba Be Lake, walk about 100m to Fairy Pond. Ao Tien 3, 000m2 wide, surrounded by limestone mountains and primitive forest, cool blue water pond. Ao Tien has many kinds of fish such as glass carp, tilapia, fried fish... To Tien Ao visitors also watch the footprints on the rock and hear the legendary story about hunters and seven fairies.

Motel in Ba Be

Some reputable homestay homes have been used and referenced from friends. With these homestay cottages you can integrate into the life of the locals. Tay people are always friendly and hospitable. You should also enjoy some typical dishes here such as meat filling, chicken hills, fried eel,...

Mr. Toan (0281) 3849 067/894 067 (Pac Ngoi)

Mr. House Poetry: 02813894133

Ms. House Huyên: 02813894066

Huynh Ha Homestay, Ms Que: 01665889668.

The story of Ba Be Lake

In the past, in the North, every year Nam Mau villagers held a large Buddhist worship ceremony, called the price ceremony. One day, a leprosy old woman came to the village to attend the ceremony. Her clothes are ragged, tattered. Grandma smells foul, very uncomfortable, causing people to shun. The old lady turned to this house to eat, was dismissed, and scolded. People are afraid of transmitting leprosy. However, some people feel pity. It was a widow, with her son. She was not disgusted, asked her to enter the house to eat enough food. Then, willing to let the old lady sleep by night, in the corner of the granary, in the tent. By midnight, the mother and daughter suddenly wake up, heard the rumbling noise rumbling from the barn. Opening the barn door, there was no old lady, but a big bunny bending like a thundercloud. The mother and son came out fearful, restless, afraid, and unable to sleep anymore.

In the morning, saw the old lady come out from the barn and say, "I'm really not human, I'm just a beggar, begging the charity of the male and female believers. Everyone was chasing me, except her mother and her children. They are all Buddha's beams, will inevitably punish the superiors entrusted to me to execute, it is a cataclysm. Whenever there is a source of water to begin to flow here, then mother and child run quickly to the top of the mountain avoiding the accident. Two pieces of this husk will help save the child”

With that said, the old woman disappears. The next day, while everyone was jostling for the ceremony in the middle of the village, suddenly, where water flowed from the top to the side, flowing into the valley. People climb up the roof, climb the tree. But the water is filled up forever, flooded both the roofs and tall trees. All the people were dying, except for the two widowed mother and two rushed out on the top of the mountain, two pieces of hull husks are two boats.

With heavy rain, two women rowing boat to save people. In the mountains, mother and daughter built a small house to live. This place, later became a crowded village, and today is still called Nam Mau village. The valley was flooded with water, transformed into 3 large, vast pools, so called Ba Be Lake. The water in the three lakes is interconnected, but boats cannot travel from lake to lake because of large dams. The Ba Be Lake is wide, the water is green as jade, prominent in the mountains and majestic mountains of North Vietnam.

Lake is a small island; locals call it the Go Ba.

Here are some local foods which are all delicious, you should try in Ba Be lake:

1. Fish

Ba Be's grilled fish is a favorite dish for many visitors because of its unmistakable odor, but with finger flavor but attractive aroma, can eat both meat, bone and head. After cleaning, the fish is removed to remove the bile and intestine, then use bamboo stick gripping, bake on charcoal for about 15 minutes, waiting to turn yellow is riddled is usable.

2. Shirmp

In Ba Be, people usually eat sour shrimp with pork leg or boletus with sauteed sourdough dish, green banana, turtles... In the midst of poetic natural scenery, sipping shrimp and sour spicy corn, Guests will have the feeling of gentle, penetrating sour flesh of sour meat, feel spicy chili peppers and fragrant galangal...

Dishes are sold quite well in Bo Lu, Pac Ngoi... In addition to shrimps, shrimps or small fish caught fresh in the lake, eaten not eaten, people also salt into the bottle, to eat gradually.

3. Forest babana

Ba Be Lake granary is sold in the way to Tien pond, the area welcomes visitors from the entrance to the lake... Because planted on the mountains around the lake so the banana body grows tall, round fruit looks very attractive, just created Beautiful landscape used for medicine and gifts.

4. Smoked pork

Unlike some other ethnic groups, the Tay people who live around Ba Be often put their meat in baskets or baskets and then hang them on the kitchen. The smoke from the wood burning stove is blackened every day.

The meat hung like that for a whole year without spoilage. Today, although not store meat hung up the kitchen as food to save but in the Tay people around the lake is always a little, used in the occasion of welcome guests, holidays or other important date.

QBUS vehicle transportation Hanoi Ba Be Lake daily

Hanoi transport to Ba Be (Bac Kan)

Depart daily from Hanoi, pick up at hotel.

QBUS Operation Center: 51 Kim Ma, Ba Dinh, Hanoi.

Phone: 043. 923. 0955 0918. 818.842

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