Hoa Binh with a pleasant climate, favorable geographical location and countless interesting things is a destination chosen by many people for vacations with family and friends.
Mu Waterfall
Mu Waterfall is about 130km from Hanoi, in Lac Son district, Hoa Binh. This place is likened to a fairyland, like a paradise in the middle of the lower world. The scenery here is extremely majestic with cool white water pouring down white rocks like silk strips in the middle of pristine mountains and forests.
The best time for you to explore Mu Waterfall is from May to September every year. This is the summer time, Mu waterfall is like a cool giant air conditioner with cascading waterfalls blowing away all the fatigue and sweltering heat of the city. The soul of tourists is also washed by the fresh water at the foot of the waterfall that has flowed down into a large swimming pool.
Visitors can experience bathing in waterfalls, enjoy BBQ parties right by the stream with Hoa Binh specialties such as lam rice, mountain snails, mountain crabs, grilled stream fish... Another bottle of wine that needs Hoa Binh is nothing like that.
The dry season at Mu Waterfall takes place from October to April next year, this is the time when Mu Waterfall is foggy. However, the mysterious wild mountains and forests here still attract those who are eager to explore the experience. This is also the perfect time for visitors to explore Mu Cave with a splendid, fantastic, vivid stalactite system, sparkling like gold inlaid every time like natural masterpieces
Currently, there are no buses running directly from Hanoi to Thac Mu, so the most suitable way to travel is to travel by personal means such as motorbikes or cars. The road to Thac Mu town is surrounded by winding hills and mountains, rugged but the scenery is extremely impressive. The road is small, but the 16-seater car can still enter, there are small bends that are a little urgent when moving, which should be noted.
Reference ticket price: 5,000VND/person
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Villages in Mai Chau
Among the attractions when traveling to Hoa Binh, it is definitely impossible to miss the stop is the calm ancient villages overlooking the vast rice fields such as Lac village, Van village, Com Poong village, Muong Giang Mo village... Under those stilt roofs, the Thai and Muong people in Mai Chau still retain the traditional beauty left by their ancestors for thousands of generations. Visiting Mai Chau villages, visitors can not only experience discovering the beauty in the lifestyle, customs and cuisine of the people here.
Lac Village
Belonging to Chieng Chau commune, Lac village is located in the center of Mai Chau valley. This is one of the famous tourist villages of the Thai people that still retains many unique community activities. Lac village is clean, beautiful and neat with lovely tall stilt houses hidden under green trees. There are also stalls selling brocade, jewelry or handmade items made by the skillful Thai girls here. As a typical homestay spot of Hoa Binh province, coming to Ban Lac, you should definitely sleep at least a count on a stilt house to get the most interesting experiences.
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Muong Giang Mo village
Located in Binh Thanh commune, Cao Phong district, Muong Giang Mo village is one of the attractions when traveling to Hoa Binh that has recently been loved. This place currently has more than 100 traditional stilt houses. This is one of the Muong Hoa Binh cultural life conservation areas with pristine, simple but lively and attractive beauties. It is not only the house, the way of farming, daily activities to items such as rice mills, water systems, etc. to the customs are full of traditional colors. Exploring Muong Giang Mo village will definitely be an interesting trekking trip that you cannot miss.
Pom Coong Village
Besides Lac village, Pom Coong village is also a destination that attracts tourists near and far. The poetic village is located peacefully next to a vast field. Close to the hillside are small and neat stilt houses. Coming to Pom Coong, in addition to cycling around the fields fragrant with new rice, sleeping at night on stilts and then opening the door in the morning to welcome you is the dawn from the rice field, so that at night it is a meal with Thai characteristics with 7 colors of sticky rice, wild meat dotted with mackerel grilled stream fish...
White Stone Pass
White Stone Pass is also known as Thung Khe Pass, a famous pass located on the road connecting Mai Chau and Tan Lac. At an altitude of over 1000m, from White Stone Pass, visitors can cover the entire beautiful Mai Chau Valley.
Originally a limestone mountainous area, while breaking the mountain to open the road, the rocks fell from above to form a snow-white color. The name "White Stone" also started from here.
The pass is famous for its unique beauty with white color like snow cover all year round. Every time the wind pushes the clouds down, the cover makes the scene even more fancy.
White Stone Pass is always in the top attractions when traveling to Hoa Binh, not to be missed. This place attracts many backpackers because of the winding and winding terrain that embraces the mountainside. The white color stands out like a silk sheet squeezed across the deep green mountain background, creating beautiful checkin photos of a lifetime.
At Da Putih Pass, the morning is cool and cool, the afternoon is clear and warm with light sunshine, the afternoon is cool with clouds and mist until sunset covers. Giving visitors the feeling of experiencing all 4 seasons in just one day is extremely interesting. However, with a large traffic and many heavy-duty vehicles moving through, this is considered one of the beautiful but also extremely dangerous roads.
The best time of year for you to visit this place is around summer from May to early July. If you are lucky at this time, you can also admire the image of Hoa Binh hydropower dam discharging extremely spectacular floods. You should avoid the time from July to August is the time of the year when it rains and floods, the amount of soil and rock slides is large and causes dangerous slippery.
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Momentum North
Da Bac is about 90km from Hanoi, is a highland district of Hoa Binh located along the Hoa Binh hydropower reservoir. With majestic natural landscapes, cool climate, unique historical and cultural conditions. Therefore, in recent years, Da Bac is gradually becoming one of the attractions when traveling to Hoa Binh that is chosen by many tourists.
Da Bac owns a hilly, mountainous, river and stream terrain intertwined with many beautiful caves, islands on Hoa Binh Lake, a diverse natural forest ecosystem and the indigenous culture of the Tay, Muong and Dao people.
With a cool climate, you can visit Da Bac all year round. In particular, the most suitable time is in the summer (May to August). This is an annual hot spot in the North, Da Bac is the perfect destination to avoid the sun. At the same time, this is also an ideal time to participate in fun activities such as kayaking or swimming on Hoa Binh Lake.
However, this is also the time of annual rainstorms, so when traveling to Da Bac at this time, you should consider the weather carefully to avoid rain and floods.
Coming to Da Bac, besides exploring the hydropower lake, you can visit Muong and Dao villages such as Ké (Hien Luong), Sung (Cao Son), Bia Da village, Mo Hem (Tien Phong) ... to learn about the life of the Muong people and the indigenous Dao people.
Going to Da Bac, you can stay at homestays in Tien Phong, Hien Luong at an affordable cost or camp right near Hoa Binh Lake to feel the cool lake breeze.
Most homestays in Da Bac today have bicycles available for tourists to borrow to cycle around the lake or around the village. Many homestays are also prepared for kayakers to explore the beauty of the lake. Coming to Da Bac, you will definitely not be able to miss the cuisine here with Da River fish, jogging chicken, grilled pig and mixed wild vegetables typical of the Muong people.
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Thung Nai Lake
Beautiful like a charming painting of mountains and waters, Thung Nai Lake has the beauty of the blend of clouds, mountains, and rivers that can make anyone fall in love at first sight. Only about 110km from the capital, this place has become one of the attractions when traveling to Hoa Binh, is a great vacation place to escape the heat of tourists.
Thung Nai Lake is located in Thung Nai commune, Cao Phong district. As a commune on the lake bed of the Da River, this place used to be the land of Muong Thanh, one of the famous rich places of the Muong people.
The best time of the year to go to Thung Nai is from May to August. This is the peak hot time in summer, but the air in Thung Nai is extremely fresh and cool. Coming to Thung Nai at this time, you can not only avoid the scorching heat of the city, immerse yourself in fresh and cool nature, but also participate in many recreational activities on the lake such as boating to see the bed of Da River lake, fishing, swimming in cool water. The most interesting thing is to enjoy delicious dishes from Da River fish specialties such as lentils, black carp, bamboo shoots, small fish... right on the boat.
If you come to Thung Nai in the low season, you can visit Thac Bo cave and Thac Bo temple. This is a sacred temple in Da Bac district, Hoa Binh that is always crowded with pilgrims. This is also a place where locals smell smoke and pray for their trips up and down the Da River to be smooth.
Coming to Thung Nai in the dry season, you can also visit the Bo Waterfall Cave with the world of stalactites of all shapes and sizes that are extremely beautiful.
Currently, near Thung Nai, there are many motels and homestays with moderate costs, convenient for tourists to stop by such as Coconut Tree Motel, Windmill Motel....
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Lung Van
One of the attractions that cannot be missed when traveling to Hoa Binh is Lung Van – a place known as the "roof" of the Muong Bi people in Hoa Binh – a peaceful place for Lung Van also known as Thung Van – the land of clouds and fog that is loved by many travel enthusiasts. Lung Van belongs to Tan Lac district, Hoa Binh.
Located at an altitude of over 1200m above sea level, Lung Van is like a wonderland surrounded by Buffalo Mountain, Co Mountain, and Tien Mountain. Not only outstanding with a cool climate, majestic and poetic nature, this place also preserves many typical cultural and architectural features of the Muong ethnic group, attracting a large number of tourists.
You can visit Lung Van at any time of the year. Because Lung Van is beautiful in every season. In spring, heaven and earth put on a new green and clear shirt. In summer, Lung Van is cool with clouds floating down in the morning and afternoon, enchanting any cloud hunter. In autumn, Lung Van is beautiful with terraced fields full of ripe rice.
Currently, coming to Lung Van is extremely convenient, you can travel by personal vehicle or take a large group, you can rent a car from Hoa Binh city to actively move.
Coming to Lung Van, in addition to cloud hunting, Lung Van fair market is also a unique cultural experience that should not be missed every Tuesday morning. The market sells everything from costumes and food to very unique indigenous agricultural products. In addition, delicious dishes not to be missed when visiting Lung Van such as: buffalo meat cooked with palm leaves, pickled pork, lam rice....
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