Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Bac Giang: Xuong Giang Ancient Citadel, Tho Ha Village, Tho Ha Temple, Duc La Pagoda, Mo Stream Relic Site, Mo Stream Temple, Khe Ro Primeval Forest, Khuon Than Tourist Area, Van Ha Wine Village, Cam Son Lake,…
Bac Giang is a province in the Northeast region, Vietnam. Coming to Bac Giang, visitors not only find the beauty of nature or the beauty of traditional craft villages but also find the spiritual beauty with many ancient temples, pagodas preserved to this day. Let’s explore 10 famous tourist attractions of Bac Giang!
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1. Xuong Giang Ancient Citadel
Xuong Giang Ancient Citadel is located in Xuong Giang Commune, Bac Giang City, Bac Giang Province. In 1407, the Ming invaders built the citadel. Due to the impact of time and people, the ancient citadel is no longer intact but only traces remain. The vestiges are rectangular in shape with an area of 27 ha, including 4 gates, and surrounded by a large moat.
Coming to Xuong Giang Ancient Citadel, visitors will recognize the distinctive imprints of the citadel such as an intact blue stone stele, on the surface of the stele with the Chinese characters meaning that the stele records about the citadel in the northwest corner of the citadel.
Xuong Giang Ancient Citadel – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Bac Giang
2. Tho Ha Village
Tho Ha is the name of a craft village having 3 sides as rivers in Van Ha Commune. This is a pure Vietnamese ancient village with banyan trees, a wharf, a communal house yard, and old houses located deep in the alleys. The most distinctive feature of Tho Ha Village compared to the typical villages of the Northern is that the people here do not live by farming, but mainly by handicrafts and small trade. Before 1960, Tho Ha Village was famous for its pottery making, but since 1990, it is famous for making rice paper, spring rolls, and rice noodles.
Tho Ha Village – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Bac Giang
3. Tho Ha Temple
Tho Ha Communal House is a famous communal house in Northern and worships Than Canh Phuc, a general of the Ly Dynasty who had great merit in the resistance war against the Tong army. The communal house is an architectural work on an area of 3,000 m², built in 1685 during the 7th year of King Le Chinh Hoa.
Visitors coming here will enjoy the scenery on the wharf under the boat of the Cau River, visit the village communal house with old big banyan trees, visit the old houses in the village, and the alleys with ancient beauty, visit the pottery production with families producing rice paper rolls, rice noodles and families making rice wine.
Tho Ha Temple – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Bac Giang
4. Duc La Pagoda
Duc La Pagoda, also known as Vinh Nghiem Pagoda, is located on a low hill, behind is Co Tien Mountain range in Tri Yen Commune, Yen Dung District, Bac Giang Province. This is a Buddhist Center from the Tran Dynasty and belongs to the Truc Lam Zen sect. The pagoda has a large scale, built on about 1 hectare of land, surrounded by dense bamboo ramparts.
Duc La Pagoda – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Bac Giang
5. Mo Stream Relic Site
Mo Stream Relic Site is a famous tourist destination in Bac Giang located in Nghia Phuong Commune, Luc Nam District. Coming to Mo Stream Relic Site, visitors will feel the airy space of the mountains and forests, the serenity of the winding road along the stream, and the roofs hidden in the trees in the majestic mountains and forests. At the same time, visitors can also explore another path created by many cliffs.
Mo Stream Relic Site – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Bac Giang
6. Mo Stream Temple
Coming to Mo Stream, visitors seem to be lost in a fairyland with temples and pagodas located on the mountain peaks. The most prominent is Mo Stream Temple, including Lower, Middle and Upper temples located along Mo Stream.
Mo Stream Temple – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Bac Giang
7. Khe Ro Primeval Forest
Khe Ro Primeval Forest in An Lac Commune, Son Dong District, Bac Giang Province is a typical primeval forest for the Northeast region of Vietnam.
Khe Ro Forest has a very rich flora and fauna system and is a primeval forbidden forest that still retains a wild look suitable for tourists who like to explore and research. In particular, this place also owns two beautiful large streams. It is Nuoc Vang Stream (Yellow water Stream) having water yellow all year round like honey, with stones emerging of all colors and sizes; and Khe Din Stream flows long with 3-4-floor segments, each floor is about 30-40m high.
Khe Ro Primeval Forest – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Bac Giang
8. Khuon Than Tourist Area
Khuon Than Tourist Area is located in Luc Ngan District, Bac Giang Province with two highlights: Khuon Than Lake and Khuon Than Forest. Khuon Than Lake is 240ha wide, the lake bed has up to 5 small islands planted with green pine trees aged 15-20 years, suitable for walking on the lake, or fishing… Khuon Than Forest is nearly 700ha wide, of which the area of natural forest is 300 ha, while pine forest is 400 ha.
Around Khuon Than Tourist Area are specialty orchards such as Thai lychee, Vietnam lychee, persimmon, na… This place is a beautiful tourist site of Bac Giang that visitors cannot ignore.
Khuon Than Tourist Area – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Bac Giang
9. Van Ha Wine Village
Van Ha is a famous place in Viet Yen District, Bac Giang Province. This place is famous for the specialty wine of Van Village, a particularly delicious wine. Van Village people in particular and Bac Giang people in general are always proud of their craft of making wine in Van Village. That is because spending several hundred years, under feudal dynasties, this wine used to be an offering to the king and was used regularly in royal banquets.
Van Ha Wine Village – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Bac Giang
10. Cam Son Lake
Cam Son Lake is located at an altitude of about 300m above sea level, the lake is not only rich in natural resources but also contains the unique cultural treasures of the Tay, Nung, Dao, and San ethnic groups.
Coming to this place, visitors will have the opportunity to admire the stilt houses with blue smoke in the afternoon hidden behind the hillsides and forests, get to listen to the melodious Sli and Shoong Hao tunes, get to enjoy the festival in the fields, pray for the season, celebrate the new year, celebrate a unique new house… Moreover, visitors also get to immerse themselves in the extremely romantic space “on the wharf under the boat”, a typical cultural feature of the Cam Son region.
Cam Son Lake – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Bac Giang
