Hanh Cave, Ha Long Bay

Hanh Cave is a beautiful and longest cave compared to those existing caves in Halong Bay. Its length is 1300 m, running through Quang Hanh mountain range to the sea.

Small boat leads tourists to each winding rocks under the flickering torchlight, clusters of stalactites hanging down from the ceiling let the light on the magic of colors, smooth water flow whole drift and quiet space. The more deep, the more beautiful, it is rather wild.

The French name for the Hang Cave is Le tunnel. Very low door so they had to use a small boat to be in the new. At Cam Pha pier, you can rent boats or canoes to visit the. Near the entrance of the cave with the small boat charter to visit to pick up and at low tide the water out new stores apparently.

Hanh Cave primarily reserved for those truly adventurous and connoisseurs to the water because if not carefully calculate the time when the tide is moving, you'll place was locked up tight in her aquarium chasms.

Right the front door, on the craggy rocks like a tower, there is a small temple called the Ba Co (Three Lady). Today fishermen often to temples to burn incense and ask her three spirits bless them.

Tourist can discover this bay by booking 3 day tour of Grayline Halong Cruise - one of the top famous brand tour supplying Halong Bay junk cruise tours in Halong Bay.

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Kong Ka King National Park

Kong Ka Kinh National Park is located in the northeast province of Gia Lai, Pleiku City and 50 km to the northeast, administrative boundaries distributed in the districts of Kbang, Dak Doa, Mang Yang.

This is the highest mountain in Pleiku plateau 1,748 meters, with an area of 42057.3 hectares. In which 1000 hectares zoned tourism. With these functions, the main task of the park is to conserve biodiversity, ecosystem, watershed protection Ba River, Dak Pne River, serving learning ... research and development in particular types of ecotourism is gaining attention and pushing.

We come to Kong Ka King National Park in a sunny morning. Derived from headquarters, the team leader and Ranger divided into 4 cruise route in 2 days the trail in the woods.

Starting from the starting point to the research station, then follow the trail back to the rest station. The next to Nai Bai and ancient tree in leaf rare.

Starting the first day journey, Group climb 2.5 km forest road to the top of White Stone elevation 1,300 meters above sea level. Climb overlooking a patch of forest, a majestic mountain space, and vastly scaled-down wide-open eyes.

This is a massive cliff, many shapes, different sizes, stopover for tourists and lunch break to recuperate further conquests.

This area has a lot of plants are mainly broadleaf and coniferous trees, many fossil species of orchids, moss, bird ... epiphytic foot cliff. Not to mention the air is different from the outside, providing a cooling sensation, cheery, pleasant.

From here, the journey continues to snub Research Station is approximately 1.5 km. We go downhill slope of about 70 degrees to follow the trail, on the road to discover many orchid species as: Kim messages, Nail Turtle ...

Forest ranger officers who lead the way and guide our team with enthusiasm, open-hearted introduction phytosanitary species in the forest. We went at a slow speed, moderate, walking and observing, understanding the atmosphere fresh, fresh. The time to detect signs of animal or plant species were brought strange feeling elated, excited for the Group, especially his ranger.

Perhaps as a pre-arranged gift of nature, along the way there are small trees, vines making sure grip for climbing down because of high slope. When going to tile the area springs from the top of the white stone about 1.5 km high humidity, many species appear phytosanitary such as herbaceous plants, seedlings, ferns ...

To snub Research Station, where researchers, students majoring in biology stopover ecology study habits, food langurs, report writing, data analysis. Regrettably, most of this trip is that we did not get to see firsthand shanked gray langur, primarily animals in Ka King Kong, only to see some leftover food from them.

Forests in the region are affected, the impact from the outside, before you exploited the large-diameter trees as incense, monitoring, wallpaper ... now just forest regeneration later converted into protected areas. Most ecosystems are retained, only losing a large number of trees are small trees are renewable. The majority of the trail system at this large size is due to open SFE.

Itinerary second day we went to the beach Nai after crossing several small streams, clear water. Here is some vacant land; large, green grass cover a patch of sky, a cool climate is very suitable for the development of the deer.

Park Management Committee is focusing on human resources and funding to build stables, farms for planning, research, development of suitable animals with habitats in areas such as gray shanked langur, deer, nai ... create good conditions for visiting the Ka King Kong eyes will be watching the animals in the forest, but when there is no chance of seeing.

King Kong Ka National Park also attracts tourists with scenic waterfalls, majestic mountains. Typical cascade 95, 3-storey waterfall, mountain Ka King Kong, suspension bridges, forest vegetation, villages of ethnic Bahnar lived many years ...

Ecotourism Park King Kong Ka, an ideal destination for tourists from home and abroad to experience, enjoy sightseeing and spatial characteristics of the vast jungle of natural open space.

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An Hien - peaceful place

An Hien garden house located on the north shore of the river, the road number 58 Nguyen Phuc Nguyen Xuan Hoa Village, Huong Long Commune, Hue City. According to the architecture of the city of Hue, home gardens and overlooking the Perfume River and not far from the famous Thien Mu pagoda.

An Hien garden house has quite a long history and many employers hands. According to the family, before 1895, the earliest homeowner is a princess, daughter of King Duc Duc (when it is government palace princess). The next owner was Mr. Pham Dang Khanh (also known as Pham Dang Thap), grandson of the great god Pham Dang Hung Gia Long. (He is the grandson of the Thai royal Khanh Dowager Tu Du is she). 1920, the new owner is Mrs. Kham Diep.

In 1936 he badly - her son sold to him Kham Diep Vu Tuan Nguyen Dinh Chi (at that time held the government of Ha Tinh week). His wife, Nguyen Dinh Chi Dao Thi Xuan Yen she has inherited and continues to manage and preserve the garden area. She herself is the owner of the longest, best preserved integrity and enhances the value of the An Hien garden house until she died in 1997.

The day after reunification (1975) until her death Dao Thi Xuan Yen (1997), An Hien, also known as Mrs. Tuan Chi garden become a cultural destination of the ancient capital. Currently, the An Hien garden under the law of inheritance of Phan Thi Hoang Oanh and four grandchildren (now living in France).

An Hien is a typical architecture, the epitome of Hue garden houses, mingles with nature and are planned in compliance with the principles of Feng Shui Oriental traditional architecture. The main direction of the turn to the river. The entire campus nearly 5000m2, always green blue color.

Gate of the garden outside has the look humble, hidden behind the shaded canopy. Port brick arch with rolling contours characteristic of ancient architecture of Hue. Part book on the arch gate decorated with tiger picture, the two ports are located parallel sentences, upper arch is a horizontal picture scroll with the word well-hidden. All these details are decorated porcelain mosaic. Above the gate is a two bats wingspan. Two wooden gate architecture "but down the roof" to open the lead on the inside.

From the entrance to the house through a small entrance under the canopy interlocking dream, create depth and a sense of quiet, dignified. The layout of the house and the ancillary items and garden very closely, with a reasonable rate of beautiful architecture, landscape fit. In front of the house, where the path ends with two rows of plum is a smoke screen role as a "criminal record" before the house. Curtain with elegant architecture, gently, in mid-shaped "life", the two sides have the word "double happiness". Inside, behind a fronts, front of the house is an additional tank drop flowers; factor here is "street smart" in feng shui.

Architecture is a house with 3 2 bottles lying almost in the center of the garden. The house is 135m2 large, iconic architecture of traditional architecture in general and the beam Hue genre in particular. The whole frame house structure is made of wood, totally romantic link. There are 48 columns, and truss system is made of jackfruit wood; Kien Kien wooden rafters; home insulation in Ironwood. The columns are pillows on the square pedestal. Truss system carved intricate patterns. List multiple layers of roofing tiles, roof shore up the two dragons, in the middle of the lotus-shaped roof top.

The interior space of the house is clearly divided according to functional use. Time interval between the church, decorated with the principle "money Buddhist spiritual climate" (Buddhist shrine front, rear ancestors), where the two sides time sitting on the principle of "women described male friendship" (male to the left, women to the right), two wing is similar, and living where men (left) and female (right), according to the old feudal notions. This particular house has many cherished mementos of the royal dynasty. That's all picture horizontal lacquered 4 letters "Van Vo Trung Hieu" bestowed by Emperor Bao Dai family in 1937, is now hanging in the nave, and poetry of King Thanh Thai, also hung out at the reception desk house.

Later, due to customer demand for houses as well as places to visit, Mrs. Tuan Chi has a sticky build another house on the left edge of the beam to the side and living. The new house has French architecture.

Not only is a special home for generations mark up very grand, a beautiful architecture blends with poetic scenery; An Hien is truly an ecological space, a 4 season garden flavor.

Many trees, where the tree has dozens of years old, like every dream at the entrance to the plant from the 1940s Many fruit trees, many varieties of rare plants across 3 regions are also included in this gathering. It is possible to mention the mangosteen, durian, dragon fruit ... the South; apricot, rose, litchi ... of the North; tea bar, strawberry, fig ... of Central.

There are special trees, such as persimmons trees by turmeric Mai Tien Dien - great-great poet Nguyen Du Internal brought from their homeland Nghi Xuan - Ha Tinh Vu Tuan Nguyen Dinh Chi donate. This is a precious pink species, no grain, very tasty. Or maybe mention the 13 original mangosteen Giang Chau, a famous quarter results Hue professionals dedicated to the king ...

An Hien garden and a flower garden. White apricot flowers bloom spring entrance, summer blooming lilies on the water ... the red side of the house is a new rig with dozens of species of orchids blooming.

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Con Dao island

The small plane carries about sixty passengers which have took off from Tan Son Nhat International Airport, Ho Chi Minh City and landed at Co Ong Airport, Con Dao after 45 minutes.

This archipelago has more than ten islands. We do not know exactly when Vietnamese settled the first village in Con Dao. Perhaps the earliest one was built in three hundred years, or nearly four hundred years, when the group of Vietnamese migration from the north, central to the south for various reasons.

But Con Dao is still alive; it has many legends in the hearts of the residents here and in the ground, in the visible objects, can get their hands on. In war time, this used to be known as a scariest hell in Vietnam.

We are aware of the first female prisoners are given here is not that Mrs. Vo Thi Sau Phi Yen, whose real name is RAM, wife of Lord Nguyen Anh. When being chased by Tay Son army, Nguyen Anh runs to Con Dao. Along the way, he wanted to ask help from the French, Phi Yen tried to persuade him not asking French for help. Nguyen Anh was angry and locked her in the cave until she died. Cai prince cried and asked to stay with her. Nguyen Anh threw him to the sea without hesitate.

Since the French intervention in Vietnam, where they founded a prison. The first is that officers detained the Can Vuong was arrested in the South, followed by patriotic scholars across all three regions. Many big names such as Phan Chu Trinh, Nguyen An Ninh, Ton Duc Thang, Pham Van Dong, Nguyen Binh, Tran Huy Lieu, Ngo Gia Tu, Le Hong Phong, Nguyen Van Cu, Le Duan ... did "living "here. Among the prisoners in Con Dao, there is the genuine communist. There is the Kuomintang. There are regular prisoners. Then there are all prisoners. There was a sentence in prison and juvenile prison sentence ...

Compared with the French, the Americans simply building more prisons, smaller and lower, but the horror is not inferior. At the Peak period, Con Dao had more than ten thousand prisoners of all kinds. More than twenty thousand Vietnam remains patriotic people still scattered all over the place, most Hang Duong cemetery, Hang Keo.

In Con Dao, with more than one address cannot be ignored, such as the Crystal Skull yards, cow shed with prison. There quarries tiger cages. 914. Pier Ma Thien Lanh Bridge. Milled rice stew. Hang Duong graveyard ... Every place smells fishy read Aaron horror of blood, delve into the minds and hearts of people of conscience. Each name read out, see immediate visible image of the man of steel cast iron, the body that established universal abject hidden disabilities, bright spirit and personality Vietnam.

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