Vietnam is a peaceful country with tremendous beautiful sceneries that can give tourists the profound impressions once coming to visit. Nowadays, many people all over the world choose Vietnam as a destination to enjoy their holiday in a Vietnam tour deal because they want a different experience, which is homely, gentle but impressive in its own way. So why do not include here an outstanding name in Cao Bang province? Cao Bang of Vietnam is known as the first revolutionary base of Vietnam during the struggling period for National Liberation. Once mentioning this place as a destination for tourism, people often talk about a very outstanding name: Ban Gioc Waterfall, located in Trung Khanh district, with its wild, natural and magnificent beauty.
Ban Gioc Waterfall is located on the border between Vietnam and China, at the part crossing Trung Khanh district of Cao Bang province. It is about 90 kilometers far from the center of Cao Bang city. This is considered as the most beautiful natural waterfall in Vietnam and the biggest waterfall in Southeast Asia , ranks fourth in the list of waterfalls which land on borders in the world. Besides, Ban Gioc waterfall also marks the boundary between Vietnam and China. When visitors come to this place, there are tremendous things to be learned in such unique tour to Vietnam. With its splendid mountains and the stream lasts for over 300 meters from the latitude of 53 meters, the waterfall flows through 3 overlapped steps, creates streams different in sizes.
Ban Gioc waterfall is divided into 2 parts: The main part and the subpart. The main part of the waterfall is very large (100 meters in length and 60 meters in depth). Looking from distance, the main part of the waterfall is like a white soft silk ribbon across the hillside. This scene is, indeed, really impressive for a Vietnam tour deal.
The subpart of the waterfall has less water with a gentle flow. Once here, tourists can hire boats and row to the stream middle to discover the entire beauty of Ban Gioc waterfall.
Not only witnessing the beauty of Ban Gioc waterfall, tourists also have a chance to see stilt houses of the Tay who live there, a special experience in a local tour in Vietnam.
Phuong Thi Kiu (57 years old), a resident living near Ban Gioc waterfall said: “From when the resort and the Buddha Temple were built, the waterfall had attracted numerous tourists and residents to visit. I hope that there would be more and more internal and external tourists to come here in a Vietnam tour deal and enjoy the pristine but gorgeous beauty that nature has given to our country, so as to develop the tourism service in Vietnam.”
According to the board of administration of the waterfall estate, Ban Gioc waterfall attracts over 40,000 tourists annually including both internal and external tourists, which makes it one of the most Vietnam typical tours.
Recently, it has been inaugurated in the place a temple named Phat Tich Truc Lam Ban Gioc Pagoda, which was designed with a lot of the outstanding traditional architectural features of Vietnam. Therefore, it is highly appreciated as one worthy destination to a Vietnam tour deal.
When stepping in Ban Gioc waterfall, tourists will experience a quite new, strange but interesting life with the native people here. The differences are in their daily life customs, activities and their enthusiasm that are revealed clearly every day. You will feel it if you spend some time to visit here in a Vietnam travel tour package. Besides, tourists can also taste some famous specialties of Cao Bang such as sauté cakes, canarium sticky rice, planch, coong phu cake, Trung Khanh chestnuts and smoked buffalo or cow meat… while enjoying interesting traditional art performances here like Then singing, poetry, puppetry, etc.
Do The Chinh, a 22-year-old tourist coming from Thai Binh said: “This is the first time I come to Ban Gioc waterfall. And what I feel is it is really impressive, exactly like what I have been known so far about it. The sceneries as well as the so kind and friendly people here bring to me an unforgettable peaceful feeling. It is just a worthy investment because the expenditure is unremarkable compared to the average Vietnam tour package price. I promise myself to come back here one day soon, not for once but many times later.”
The beauty of the natural waterfall, which combines with the peaceful and rustic scenes here will bring to tourists profound impressions when coming to this place. Once deciding to have a free time to enjoy in your Vietnam tour deal holiday, do not skip this perfect destination in your list. The experiences you may have when visiting the waterfall will bring to you unforgettable impressions for the entire life. Nothing can compare to spending some nice days in one of your holidays with friends, lovers of family here and experience the unique feeling that you can only have in Ban Gioc waterfall.