EXPLORING BA NA WITH FOUR SEASONS A DAY

Ba Na has a special climate with four seasons a day, which makes many tourists be fascinated. To Ba Na, visitors will feel the sense like getting lost in the clouds and smog.

The way from the foot of mountain to the top of Ba Na is 15 kilometers in length. Going by Ba Na cable car, Tourists will start from Vong Nguyet hill, go through cloud and a primeval forest to go to the top. When standing at the top, you can easily contemplate the whole imposing landscapes, Mo stream, and Toc Tien waterfall, etc. This cable car route has set four world records: the longest one line car cable in the world (5,801 meters); the highest difference height between departure and destination (1,368.93 meters); the longest non-stop cable (11,585 meters); and the world heaviest cable rolls (141.24 tonnes). Enjoying the magnificent views from the summit, over the mountain, Ba Na is in green colour of primeval forests and blue colour of sky and sea. Ba Na is sparkling as a landscape photo. Belonging to Truong Son mountain range, Hoa Ninh commune, Hoa Vang district, Ba Na is 25 kilometers from Da Nang city. it has been famous for an ecological system with many species of rare animals and plants such as sandal-wood, mahogany, Asia black bear, gibbons, etc. According to statistics, the flora in Ba Na is abundant with more than 543 species, including 250 species of medical plants, 256 species of vertebrate animals (61 species of animals, 178 species of birds and 17 species of reptiles). Visting Ba Na, tourists will have a chance to enjoy special climate here. You will experience four seasons a day and explore special and interesting things. At the top of Ba Na mountain, tourists can experience the freeze of winter in the summer, feast your eyes on a mysterious view. That is so amazing! Getting up in early morning, the winter’s gone, the spring comes. It is full of sunlight. The temperature at 7 am is about 18 degree Celsius. At the midday, it turns to summer, but it is not as hot as the summer of the Central Vietnam. The hot weather just lasts a few hours and then it turns to autumn in the afternoon. Ba Na is a paradise of flowers. It is considered as the second Sapa in Vietnam. The weather of Ba Na is suitable for many species of  subtemperate flowers such as hydrangeas, and orchids, etc.Since 2004, local people here has built a big pagoda on the summit of Ba Na mountain. It is called Linh Ung pagoda. In addition, they put a Buddha statue that is 30 meters in height. Building a pagoda at the height of 1,500 meters above the sea level is a feat. Nowadays, Ba Na has been a pride of Vietnamese people in general and Da Nang people in particular. It is also a famous tourist attractions to many foreign travellers. Currently, Da Nang is still in the process of renovation, restoration, conservation of Buddhist cultural area, ancient villas and the construction of hotels to meet the needs of sightseeing, leisure for tourists.

Visiting one of the largest natural lakes in Vietnam: Lac Lake

Lac Lake, one of the largest natural lakes in Vietnam, is considered by many to also be the most beautiful. Covered more than 500ha at an elevation of 500m, the lake is one of the most famous landscapes in the Central Highlands.

Located about 52km from Buon Ma Thuot city, in the Central Highlands province of Dac Lak, visiting Lac Lake tourists in Vietnam tours have many wonderful experiences such as dance with the locals, wander through the forest on an elephant's back and enjoy unforgettable specialities around the campfire next to stilt houses. 

With spectacular mountains and primitive forests surround the lake. Shadows of the pine trees turn the water a beautiful deep green, which can be seen between the lotus flowers floating on the surface. 

A twisty path, lined with high trees, tall grass and wild flowers along the hillside to Bao Dai Palace at the summit. It was at first the summer residence of King Bao Dai, the last king of the Nguyen Dynasty, which has been renewed into a hotel. 

From the palace, visitors can enjoy a panoramic view of the lake and forests nearby. Glimpses of Mnong villages can be seen through breaks in the leafy canopy. 

If it is in good weather,  you can see Chu Yang Sin, the highest mountain of the southern Central Highlands.

 ‘Lac' was the name of a young man with overwhelming courage and strength who found the source of water resource for locals in the area. According to the legend: a long time ago, for reasons unknown to man, the God of Fire and the God of Water declared war on each other. 

After a fierce fight, the defeated God of Water was forced to hide by turning himself into a boulder. As a result, there was a huge drought. For many years late, there was no rain and all the plants and animals perished and villagers waited in misery for any drops of rain. 

Then one day, a poor young man named Y Lac started on a quest to find water for the village. He walked day by day until he became so tired one afternoon he had to sit down on a boulder to eat and relax. His eyes happened to fall upon a small eel coiled up deep within a crack in the rock. He caught it and put it into a pan from which it could not escape. The next morning, Y Lac noticed a drop of water, like as a pearl, at the bottom of the pan. 

The youth somehow knew that the eel was the God of Water transfigured, so he released the eel and followed as it slithered away. After a such long journey, the eel disappeared and an immense lake suddenly appeared in front of the youth's eyes. Lac Lake was formed. 

Tourists for Vietnam travel guide come to Lak Lake these days can hear stories about the past, sail around in canoes, take elephant rides and enjoy the sights, sounds of Mnong villages. You can also go trekking over streams in the forests to enjoy the beauty of the diverse flora and fauna while listening to the songs of the birds and the breath of the wind. 

When night closes in, drink a glass of wine, listen to Tay Nguyen boys and girls sing and dance by the firelight to the sound of gongs, while listening the elders tell khan tales. 

Thang Hen- romantic lake in Cao Bang

Thang Hen is located in Tra Linh District, about 25km far from Cao Bang town with 3000m in length and 1000m in width. The lake consists of 36 stunning lakes on the mountain.

This place is blessed with charming landscape of green trees, blue water, and the bending lozenge shape around the valley. Water level in the lake changes every day, rise or drop.

“Thang Hen” in the local language means “lake retention”. Its stream is from Thang Hen cave above. Water from the mouth of cave flows into the lake, so in the rainy season, while the other lakes’ water become red in color, Thang Hen lake is still blue.

According to the legend, there was a smart guy in Tra Linh. He was so handsome that made many girls sobbing. He passed the examination and became mandarin. He was rewarded 7 days to come back hometown. Being so happy with the new marriage, he failed to depart for the capital city on time. Only in the seventh night did he remember to come back. Saying goodbye to the young wife and her parents, he hurriedly ran back to the imperial city. Passing 36 valleys, through rocky mountains in the midnight, he was so tired that he dropped down and unexpectedly smashed into the mountain and died.

The 36 lakes of different sizes that we see today are all beautiful. It is believed that the place where the young men died is now the location of Thang Hen Lake. The place is attracting lots of travelers since provincial authorities have focused much on development of this site.

Visitors to Thang Hen lake can float on the lake by boat so that you can explore great beauty of nature.

Nowadays, Thang Hen lake has motels and are concerned by province. They invest and build Thang Hen to become eco-tourism area for domestic and foreign tourists. In 2002, Thang Hen lake was recognized as eco-tourism zone in Cao Bang province by the Ministry of Culture and Information.

Hon Tam beach in Khanh Hoa

Hon Tam Island is an island ecotourism place in the South of Nha Trang bay – Khanh Hoa province. There are many untouched features of nature along with the green tropical forest, which is green all year round.

The long and curling beach is like the mermaids showing their beauty beside the waves days and nights. The whirlpool is swayed in the coral of many colors. All are romantic illusory. Thus, Hon Tam is also chosen for the place to health recovery. Not only visiting, visitors would also join in the sports like climbing, forest discovering, boat racing, water skiing, sail boat, water motor, badminton, volleyball, etc, and especially there is the activity of undersea discovering. 10 years ago, Hon Tam was an isolated land. Now it is becoming the eco tourism land and many people have been impressed by a trip, which is still on their mind. Hon Tam is named after its look, which is like the green silkworm. Hon Tam is divided into two areas, which are Section A, and Section B. Section A is a curling beach with smooth sand bank to help visitors feel the delight of seawater. There is a big restaurant, which is capable for 300 diners at a time. Along this section, a series of 32 kiosks have been built for the group of visitors or families. After sinking in the sea, visitors would join in the water motor, water skiing, sliding on the water surface. Hon Tam is quietly developed from scratch. From a neglected island, Hon Tam, has become a crowded tourism centre which attract any visitor. There are many new and strange activities, which are only special for Hon Tam Section B is made in the form of recreational village. This is a hi-class recreational area with many suitable and beautiful features. The 10 separated villas of Asia style are divided into two luxury rooms each. All the villas face the sea and are equipped with the luxury hotel. Surrounding these villas, there are many types of flowers and local trees of Nha Trang and Vietnam.

Lai Thieu Orchard and Cau Ngang Tourist Area- Binh Duong

Lai Thieu Orchard and Cau Ngang Tourist Area has become a green tourist site for people of all ages. Tourists in Vietnam travel coming there from the 5th to the 8th lunar month can walk through the gardens and taste fresh fruits from the trees such as durian, rambutan, mulberry, etc.

As not so far from Ho Chi Minh City, only 20 kilometers, Cau Ngang Tourist Area covers 1,200ha including An Son, An Thanh, Binh Nham, and Hung Dinh Communes of Thuan An district, Binh Duong province. This area has become a green tourist site suitable for people of all ages. From the 5th to the 8th lunar month, the fruit trees bear ripe fruits, and visitors can walk through the gardens and taste fresh fruits from the trees such as mangosteen, durian, rambutan, lichee, mulberry, etc. 

Lai Thieu Orchard

Arriving to Cau Ngang, visitors in Vietnam travel may go by two roads: walking along bridges, along red soil roads with shady trees and aroma of fruits. The gardens here are rich of fruits. Just passing a small ditch, visitors come to a garden. Walking on carper made from leaves under cool shade of trees with all types of rip fruits above and so peaceful and quiet atmosphere, visitors can hear birds singing and rustle of leaves falling. All fatigued of stress and tension are seemed disappear. 

If the visitors in Vietnam travel want to have a trip on canals, there are many motorized boats waiting in Cau Ngang. On the boats, they can visit gardens by sailing along canals. Looking at canal’s banks from the boats, they will feel as if they were traveling in hick canal region of rich South of Vietnam. Motorized boats are ready to stop at their request. They also can go along tens of kilometers of canals to see at will the gardens, wallowed in water and cool breeze, really indulge themselves in the nature.

If you have time and make some tour to Vietnam, you should once come to this green tourist area where you can enjoy fresh fruits at the gardens and enjoy peaceful atmosphere.

Cat Ba National Park

Cat Ba National Park is located 15km north - west of Cat Ba Town. It was established in 1986. It spans an area of 15,200ha, of which 9,800ha are forest, and contains lots of particularly interesting caves. The original tropical forest spans an area of 570ha, with extremely varied wildlife and vegetation.

CatBa National Park was founded in 1986, it covers 16.196,8 ha including 10.931,7 ha of kart island and 5.256,1 ha of marine ecosystems.

Cat Ba National Park is situated in Cat Ba Island and on several smaller islands nearby. The park currently comprises 98km2 of total land are, 54km2 of inshore waters. The National Park was Vietnam’s first national park to included both terrestrial and marine ecosystems. It is recognized nationally and internationally for its importance in biodiversity conservation, as it contains many different types of ecosystem and habitat. The Park has a great variety of plant and animal species.

 Catba National Park differs from other national parks in Vietnam because of the great variety of landscapes and ecosystems, including tropical evergeen forests, mangrove, freshwater lake and streams, isolated sandy beaches, coral reefs, caves and grottos. The Park is a tourist attraction to million of domestic and oversea visitors. Come to Catba, travelers not only can worship the beauty of landscapes, seascapes, relax on isolated beaches in Lanha Bay or visit primeval forest but also have chances to discover many unique, precious species of fauna, flora and local culture…

Cat Ba national park

The golden–headed langur or Cat Ba langur is a rare and a precious animal and exists only in Cat Ba island. A special type of tree called “Cay Kim Giao” is unique to Cat Ba. In ancient times, kings and nobles would eat only with chopsticks made from this timber, as the light coloured wood was reputed to turn to black when it touched anything poisonous. There are 745 species of plants recorded on Cat Ba, including 118 timber species and 160 plants with medicinal value. The national park is home to 32 types of mammals and more than 70 species of birds have been sighted. There is a beautiful lake inside the national park called Frog Lake, with a water forest and amazing landscape.

How to come to Cat Ba national park:

If you travel from Halong bay, you will get on Gia Luan harbour where you can take a taxi, mototaxi or rent a car to go 10 km to Catba national park main gate.

If you start from Catba town, it take you about 15 km to come. The road is good and you also can rent a motobike to go and then you can stop at some places on the way to take nice pictures.

Destinations around Catba national park:

From the Catba national park center, you can come to visit some places nearby like Trung Trang cave, Hospital cave, village garden or you go futher to Cat Ba town to visit Cat Ba market, Cat Ba Canon Fort. If you love to discover more, then you can visit Monkey Island for seeing monkeys, go swimming or take a cruise on Lan Ha bay, visit Viet Hai fishing village...

Note: from Cat Ba national park, you can make a trekking trip throught jungle 12 km to come to visit Viet Hai village. This way has no people living and you have to go with an experienced tour guide who will leads you go through a frog lake. Sometimes, he could help to find water from some kind of trees on the way. This must be very adventurous but it will give you impressed memory.

Riding bicycle in Cat Ba park road

Visit Hospital cave - Cat Ba national park

Sacred Truong Son Martyrs Cemetery

July is observed as the Month of Tribute at Truong Son Martyrs Cemetery, in the war-torn central province of Quang Tri, where tens of thousands of martyrs are resting in peace.

• The movement “Paying Debts and Gratitude” is receiving great public response from across the country to mark War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day (July 27).

Millions of people are flocking to the cemetery to burn incense and pay floral tributes to fallen combatants who sacrificed their lives during the past struggles for national independence and freedom.

Among them are the combatants’ relatives and veterans, who, despite their age, travel the length and breadth of the country to commemorate their comrades and recall the old days.  

Located at Ben Tat in Vinh Truong commune, Gio Linh district, the Truong Son Martyrs Cemetery, the largest of its kind in Vietnam, is home to 10,263 graves of soldiers who laid down their lives on the battlefields along the Truong Son mountain range, commonly known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

Ho Tat Ai, head of the cemetery management board, said 80% of the martyrs buried in Truong Son were young, from just 18-22 years of age.

Some photos taken at the Truong Son Martyrs’ Cemetery in the Month of Tribute:

Top 5 intriguing dishes not to be missed in Nha Trang

Nha Trang is not only famous for its exotic beaches, but also many delicious and unique dishes.

1.  Nem nướng (Grilled nem)

Talking about the cuisine of Nha Trang, people will surely mention "nem nướng" (girlled nem) Ninh Hoa or Nha Trang. The ingredient contains "nem chua" or "nem nuong". However, almost tourists would like to enjoy "nem nuong" and buy "nem chua" as a gift for the close ones.

"Nem Ninh Hoa" also uses julienne pigskin as "nem chua Thanh Hoa". However, instead of wrapping nem in banana leaves, "nem Nha Trang" is wrapped by “ lá chùm ruột” or starfruit leaf to make aroma.

Enjoying "nem Ninh Hoa", you will feel the aroma of meat, sweet sour, crispy, and spicy blended together, it is very interesting!. In particular, nem nuong (grilled nem) is served with green papaya salad that brings a new flavor.

Nem nuong Ninh Hoa (Grilled nem Ninh Hoa)

2. Grilled beef Lac Canh

Grilled beef is alo one of the specialties in Nha Trang. Gourmets usually say that “ Coming to Nha Trang without enjoying grilled beef Lac Canh, it means that you just only know Nha Trang a half”. Although this is just a joke, it is really not exaggerating. In culinary handbook of foreign visitors, there is always the address of the restaurant serving grilled beef Lac Canh.

The secret of making delicious beef is on recipes. They mix beef meat with honey and more than 10 spices. After then, beef meat is grilled by charcoal. This dish is served with raw vegetables. However, you can also order more bread to eat together.

This dish is served with bread

3. Bun cha ca (Fried fish noodle)

This dish is quite unique with broth stewed from sailfish and bone of mackerel. That makes sweet and delicious broth. A special bowl of fried fish noodle Nha Trang is added jellyfish and “ca dam”.

This dish is served with raw vegetable and a cup of fish sauce. This dish is very suitable for those who want to be on a diet.

Bun cha ca Nha Trang (Fried fish noodle)

4. Seafood of fishing village

As a coastal city, Nha Trang seafood is very rich and fresh. You can enjoy seafood at restaurants or stores along the coast. However, you should visit fishing village to enjoy the fresh seafood which has been caught in the sea. Besides, they also can take you to seafood restaurant at sea by ferry. Here, you can choose the fresh seafood and have seafood processed.

In addition to the shrimp, squid, oysters, snails, you should try the grilled fish in Nha Trang. If you can eat live seafood, you should try salmon.

Fresh seafood

5. Bánh Căn (Can cake)

It wil be an exciting experiences for anyone when sitting around the warm coal stove, watching the skillful bakers pouring flour into the mold, after then enjoy the hot cake in a windy day. Banh Can is a popular dish in the Central region and the South.

The ingredient contains rice flour, fat, eggs, and scallions. Today, there are many kind of banh can with cake-filling from shrimp, squid. "Banh Can" is served with the raw vegetable and sweet and sour sauce mixed from Nha Trang fish sauce and other spices such as onions, peppers, garlics…

You can enjoy this dish on Le Thanh Ton street and Nguyen Thien Thuat street.

"Banh Can" Nha Trang

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A perfect summer in Quang Ninh

Mentioning Quang Ninh, everybody often think about Ha Long Bay with thousands of limestone karsts and isles in various sizes and shapes, and stunning caves, etc.

Ha Long Bay

Ha Long Bay has an area of 1,553 square kilometers, including 1,969 isles, most of which are limestone. The world heritage site recognized by UNESCO has an area of 434 square kilometers, including 788 isles with a special value on culture, aesthetics, geology, biology, and economy.

On the bay, there are many isles, caves, beaches and beautiful landscapes, which is a great advantage to develop attractive forms of tourism. The most attractive caves are Thien Cung, Dau Go, Sung Sot, Trinh Nu, Tam Cung, etc.

Bai Chay

Bai Chay is a large and beautiful beach being adjacent to Ha Long Bay. Its sand is more than 500 meters in length and 100 meters in width. In the early morning or late afternoon, thousands of people come here to swim, which make the beach animated.

There are many legends associated with the name Bai Chay. According to an ancient legend, when the fleet carrying food for the Yuan-Mongolian invaders led by Truong Van Ho came Vietnam, they was defeated by the Vietnamese troops and local people under the leadership of Tran Khanh Du. Many enemy boats were burned and the northeast wind blew the fire to the west coast of Cua Luc then burned dry forests there. The area is called Bai Chay today.

Yen Tu Mountain

Yen Tu Mountain is a high mountain in Dong Trieu range in the northern Vietnam. The moutain belongs to Thuong Yen Cong commune, Uong Bi city, Quang Ninh province. Being dubbed “ancestral land of Vietnam Buddhism”, Yen Tu moutain preserves many historic monuments.

The top of the mountain is often covered with clouds so formerly, it was called Bach Van mountain (“white cloud” mountain). The total length of the road to the top of Mountain is about 6,000 meters. Therefore, you will have to spend 6 hours walking continuously through thousands of stone steps.

Nowadays, the way to Yen Tu is not as hard as it was thanks to the cable car system 1 completed in 2002 and th cable car system 2 put into operation in 2008.

Yen Tu has become the center of Buddhism since King Tran Nhan Tong gave up the throne to started leading a religious life and established Truc Lam Yen Tu Zen. King Tran Nhan Tong has become the first progenitor with the religious name Dieu Ngu Giac Hoang Tran Nhan Tong (1258-1308).

He ordered building hundreds of constructions on Yen Tu Mountain for leading a religious life, and preaching. After his death, Phap Loa Dong Kien Cuong (1284 - 1330) was the second progenitor of Truc Lam Zen.

During 19 years of religious life, Tran Nhan Tong compiled a set of book "Thach that ngon ngu" and ordered the building of 800 pagodas, shrines and towers with thousands of valuable statues.

Tuan Chau island

Tuan Chau island is located in the southwest of Ha Long City. Tuan Chau Island is the only schist island of 1,969 islands located in the connection of the world natural heritage. The island has an area of approximately 400 hectares, endowded with stunning natural landscapes.

It's featured with 2-square kilometer green pine forest, white sand beach stretching 6 kilometers. These all features make Tuan Chau Island an ideal place for visiting and relaxing.

Besides the attractive and mysterious beauty of natural landscapes, Tuan Chua is also an archaeological site of Halong Cultures in late-Neolithic period with a lot of stone tools found such as ware table, stone axes, piece of pottery.

Before 1997,  Tuan Chau was a poor island with an area of 250 hectares, belonging to Ha Long city. The local people on the island mainly earn their living by fishing with rudimental instrumments. There were no electricity, no water, no market on the island.

Especially the traffic was separated from the mainland, making their material and spiritual culture of the local peoples on this island had even more difficulties.

Since 1998, the local people’s lives on Tuan Chau island began to improve when Au Lac Company invested to build a road with the length of 2,145 meters and the width of 15 meters connecting the island with the National Highway 18A, opened a leisure center with many famous constructions. Since then, the name of Dao Tuan Chau Island has been known and became the place to oganize the important national and international events.

Tourists can play on famous Tra Co beach sloping gently to the sea with smooth white sand. In addition, they can take part in a lot of funny activities and water sports such as beach volleyball, windsurfing, boating, skiing motor, etc.

Especially, tourists will have a chance to enjoy delicious dishes in Vietnam cuisine garden. The garden was built in unique style, imitating the traditional Vietnamese imperial palace architecture in 17th and 18th century.

Co To island

Co To island attracts tourists by pristine beaches with white sand and blue water. There are large Co To island and small Co To island, Thanh Lam island, Tran island and a lot of other isles here. Besides swimming, tourists can visit natural forest, lighthouse, pier, fishing villages, and natural rock, etc.

Cua Van fishing village

Cua Van fishing village lies in a calm sea, surrounded by mountains.Located in the heart of Ha Long Bay, Cua Van fishing village has been a tourist attraction for domestic and foreign tourists.

Coming to the village, touists have a chance to contemplate immersed in a tranquil space and contemplate charming beauty of nature, as well as learn about cultural life of fishmen.

Cua Van fishing village has an origin from two old fishing villages which are Giang Vo and Truc Vong. The village has 176 families, totaling more than 750 people. Most of them earn their living by fishing.

When the night falls, visitors can go sailing around the village and go fishing for squid with fishmen.

Phong Nha cave listed among top world destinations

Vietnam’s world heritage Phong Nha cave in the central province of Quang Binh has been certificated as one of world’s best destinations by the US famous tourism website TripAdvisor.

According to Le Thanh Loi, Director of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, the grotto is rated 4.5 of 5 points for successful tourism sites in terms of professionalism, service style, and spectacular natural sights.

He stressed that the TripAdvisor’s certificate is testimony to the co-ordinated efforts of the national park management to promote local tourism, attraction and investment. 

Recently, Phong Nha cave has been upgraded with a lighting system to ensure safety for visitors and make it become an aquarium on earth.

TripAdvisor is a travel website for customers to gather information, and opinions on travel-related issues and engage in interactive travel forums.

The website is free to users and supported by an advertising business model.

Established in 2000 by businessman Stephen Kaufer, is has been used by more than 32 million people in 30 countries.

Visiting Tan Trao Historic Site to learn the August 1945 Revolution

Tan Trao, a small valley lying between mountains and jungles in Son Duong District, 40 km from Tuyen Quang Town and 200km from Hanoi, is a historical area - a resistance base before the August 1945 Revolution.

Tan Trao used to be the revolutionary base of Vietnam before the August 1945 Revolution. Today, Tan Trao is not only a historical area but is an attractive destination of Tuyen Quang for tourists in Vietnam travel as well.  

In fact, Tan Trao is a complex of Tan Trao Communal House, Hong Thai Communal House, and a small jungle which used to be living place of Uncle Ho from June to August 1945. Tan Trao used to be a base for resistance before the August 1945 Revolution. It was also place for organizing the National Assembly on August 1945. That period was bearing time of the great policies of Viet Minh as well as a temporary government which was led by President Ho Chi Minh.

At other aspect, Tan Trao is just a small pretty valley which is situated in the area between mountains and jungles in Son Duong District. It is about 40km from Tuyen Quang City and 200km from Hanoi Capital. In order to reach Tan Trao historic site, visitors only need to travel for 80km from Hanoi on National Highway 3 to arrive Thai Nguyen. Next, you continue to travel for 10km to reach Bo Dau. After that, turn left along Highway 37 and travel for more 45km to arrive Son Duong. Finally, turn right for 16km you will reach Tan Trao Historical Site.

The row of romantic bamboo on the way to Na Lua shack house

Coming to Tan Trao, visitors should pay a visit Na Lua shack house where President Ho Chi Minh presented the pledge to win national independence before the national congress.

Na Lua shack house where President Ho Chi Minh lived and worked

This is a small shack house on the mountainside of Na Lua, about 1km from Tan Lap village to the East. Here, on June 4, 1945, President Ho Chi Minh summoned Congress to strengthen the base of revolutionary and established the Liberation Army to prepare for national conference of the Vietnamese Party and Congress.

Other place you should get to is Tan Trao communal house  where on 16-17 August 1945 the National Congress adopted the decision on the general uprising to seize power across the country.

Tan Trao Communal House

In conclusion, Tan Trao Historical Site is an ideal destination for those who like to discover historic sites as well as learn more about history of Vietnam.

Taro Soup (Canh Khoai Mon) Recipe

Taro soup with succulent flavor of taro in combination with ribs is really an irresistible delicacies during summer days. It is easy to make this delicious meal!

Ingredients:

400g pork spare ribs
400g taro
1tsp minced garlic
2 stalk spring onion: white part minced, green part chopped
1 tbsp cooking oil 
salt, pepper, seasoning powder, fish sauce to taste
1.5 liter water

Directions:
 

Chop ribs into 1.5-inch (4cm) pieces. Soak ribs in water for 15 minutes. Rinse and drain.  Marinade with 1 tsp minced garlic, 1 tsp minced spring onion (white part only), 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper, 1/2 tsp seasoning powder. Mix well and set aside for 15 minutes. 

Cut taro into 1.5-inch cubes (3-4cm).

Heat the sauce pan on high heat, add in 1 tbsp cooking oil, then add the ribs and stir-fry until the color outside changes.
Add 1.5 liter water (6 cups) and bring to boil. Occasionally skim off the foam. When it boils, add taro and cook on medium low heat until the taro is soft (can easily pierce through with a chopstick)