Discover the Pu Luong in gold season

Discover the Pu Luong in gold season

October is the best time to visit Pu Luong, western Thanh Hoa, enjoying the last golden season of the year.

Pu Luong Nature Reserve, Ba Thuoc and Quan Hoa mountainous districts, is located in the western part of Thanh Hoa province, adjacent to Mai Chau district (Hoa Binh province). This is about 170 km from Hanoi and 130 km from Thanh Hoa City, so you can go to Pu Luong for two days weekend or take Mai Chau to Pu Luong.

When to visit?

High mountainous areas with pristine forests surround, the climate in Pu Luong is pleasant all year round, even in the midst of high summer temperatures.

April - May, when the summer begins, the terraces are on the occasion green. In recent years, in April, Pu Luong is also home to a marathon competition that attracts a large number of participants.
September to October is the most beautiful time to attract people photography. This year, in mid-October, the terraced fields in Pu Luong are ripe from outside Ban Cong Commune to the core of the nature reserve such as Don, Hieu, and Muong.

How to reach Pu Luong?

From Hanoi, to Pu Luong you can choose motorcycles, bus, private car as you like. However, the road is not difficult to travel so the motor is the most suitable for Pu Luong tourism, helping you to move more flexible between the attractions. Roads for cars or personal motorcycles are usually from Hanoi along Highway 6 to Hoa Binh. Then choose one of the two ways is through Lung Van Valley, or through Lac, Mai Chau and Pu Luong.

Pick up your car at Giap Bat, Mineral Water, My Dinh selected route Ha Noi - Ba Thuoc - Thanh Hoa with the price of 120,000 VND per person. Car to the town of Canh Nang (Ba Thuoc, Thanh Hoa), continue to taxi or taxi to Pu Luong.

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If coming from Thanh Hoa city, go up the northwest, follow the Ho Chi Minh trail, turn right in Cam Thuy town, you will meet 15C road in Canh Nang town, then go about 10 km is to the foot of Pu Luong Mountain.

Passenger car from Thanh Hoa city to Canh Nang town, you can catch the car at the West bus station with two hours 8h and 12 noon.

Picture: Pu Luong Hostel.

Where to stay?

Currently, Pu Luong has many new places to serve the diverse needs of tourists, from alone, in groups of friends or family. In addition to a rare resort, Pu Luong Retreat is very crowded with reservations, homestay in the villages or hostel around the reserve is also a good choice.
Some cheap accommodation for young people in the group is Pu Luong Hostel, homestay Poetry Ha, Dung Xuan, Pu Luong RiceRoad, Pu Luong Tree house, Ly Ha ... Price per night about 150,000 to 250,000 VND every person.

What to eat?

Fried rice in Pu Luong often has specialties such as grilled fish, roasted chicken, roasted lung, fried pork belly, grilled boiled fish, sour bamboo shoots or fried bamboo shoots with salted sauté ...
Especially duck neck, just duck ready to cook, outdoor grill, aromatic herbs and beer you will have a delicious meal. Duck meat is delicious, soft and fragrant, baked with charcoal, cost about 450,000 VND a child enough for 3-4 people.

What to discover ?

The name Pu Luong in Thai means the highest peak of the village. It is also home to Pu Luong peak 1,700 m high, is a trekking point attracts many players. You spend 6-8 hours in good weather conditions to reach the top. So you can choose to camp on the top to eat and rest overnight and then down the next day. From the peak of Pu Luong, look down, you will see the spectacular landscape of the valley.

To Pu Luong, no one left the Pho Dau market. It meets on Thursday and Sunday every week. Here you not only experience the highland market but also buy souvenirs from brocade cloth and especially the discovery of local specialty products such as sweet, salty, cool cucumber, fruits, vegetables ...

Villages such as Hieu village, Don village, Muong village ... are also places to visit once in Pu Luong. There are serene stilt-houses on each other, interspersed with mountains and hills, surrounded by terraces that do not stretch to the horizon like Mu Cang Chai, but still have their own beauty.

Situated next to rice fields in Kho Muong, there is a cave of the same name, the largest and most beautiful cave in the cave complex discovered in Pu Luong. However, discovering the cave must have suitable tools because it is difficult to go down the cave.

Deep in the Pu Luong core area, this place is famous for Hieu waterfall in the Hieu village attractive to many visitors. Waterfalls are not high but the water pours into many low and wide floors. Healthy people can go upstream upstream, but if you want to bathe waterfall, take a walk along the waterway. Down to the bottom, the waterfall is more abundant, clearer and forms more natural pools.

Travel tips

• Bring your own walking shoes, sports shoes or boots, soft soles, and good friction
• Bring extra clothes if you go to Hieu village
• Bring medicine, sunscreen, especially insect repellent

Lam Kinh - the former capital in Thanh Hoa

Lam Kinh - the former capital in Thanh Hoa

About 50 km from center of Thanh Hoa, Lam Kinh relics have many works of history with hundreds of years.

Historical area of ​​Lam Kinh is 200 ha (Tho Xuan district, Thanh Hoa province) where hero Le Loi set up rebellion against the Ming invaders. After winning, in 1428, Le Loi took the name Le Thai To, named the country is Dai Viet.

The king built the capital in Thang Long (Hanoi) and set up in his hometown Lam Son a business called Lam Kinh. This place is also known as West (in order to distinguish it from Dong Kinh - Hanoi). There are many temples and shrines to worship ancestors, resting places of kings.

The entrance to the Imperial City has a dug river named Ngoc River. This flow originates from West Lake, around the city and Lam Kinh. According to the book Hoang Viet residual land, water in the river, the river bed has many beautiful round.

On the Ngoc River, there is a bridge named Tien Loan Kieu, which is also called Bach Bridge. The bridge bends across the Ngoc River, located on the main road leading to the main center of Lam Kinh.

Crossing the bridge about 50 m to an ancient well, before dropping lotus. Blue water wells are not dry all year, the north shore is paved up stone steps, supplying water for Lam Kinh.


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Every year, there are many tourists visiting Lam Kinh and visiting the ancient wells. This is one of the largest ancient wells in Vietnam today.

To enter the main hall, guests have to go through the door. There are 3 rooms, the middle of 4.6 m, the side of 3.5 m wide. The temple grounds are 11 meters wide, 14 meters long and have 3 doors. The middle of the door is 3.6 m, the door is 2.74 m wide and is centered in the middle. The features of the four middle columns are large, with a diameter of 78 cm.

Before the subject has a rocky stone stand. The dorsal and the back are still in shape, dating back hundreds of years. The head and fore legs were recently reconstructed.

The relics also preserve the beauty of Vietnamese space with "banyan tree, wells, communal yard". On the right of the dragon yard (also known as the courtyard) is a multi-year tree, hundreds of years old with a new embrace.

Through the entrance to the dragon. The courtyard spread out across the main electricity grid and came to the shores of two tombs and fortifications with a total area of ​​more than 3,500 square meters.

Lam Kinh is arranged in the shape of "Cong", consisting of three large power plants built on large land, namely Quang Duc, Sung Hieu and Dien Khanh. This is a wooden structure of scale, with rows of columns of all three power diameter up to 62 cm.

Located behind the main hall is Thai Lam Kinh Temple, which consists of nine stately decorated buildings, ancestral worship place, kings and royalty. But now there are 5 Thai shrines restored.

The front building is called Quang Duc, the middle power in the middle is called Sung Hiếu, the power behind is called Dien Khanh. Both Quang Duc and Dien Khanh have 9 compartments, the widest space between them, two double-headed spaces just 2 m wide, forming the corridor surrounding all three power.

The northern Lam Kinh temple is based on Dau Mount, in front of the south and overlooking the Chu River - there is Chua Mountain behind, Phu Lam Forest to the left, Huong Mountain to right and Ham Rong Mountain to the west.

In 1962, it was recognized as a national historical monument. By 2012, Lam Kinh remains a recognized national monument.

In the beginning, the Lam Kinh festival began after the death of King Le Thai To and was buried at Lam Kinh in 1433. Today, on the 21st (Le Lai death) and 22 (Le Loi anniversary) in August In the yearly lunar calendar, people in the region again hold Lam Kinh festival to commemorate their predecessors.