Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Quang Tri: Quang Tri Ancient Citadel, La Vang Holy Land, Hien Luong Bridge and Ben Hai River, Lao Bao Prison, My Thuy Beach, Khe Sanh, Dakrong Beauty Spot, Con Co Island, Cua Tung Beach, Vinh Moc Tunnels,…
Quang Tri belongs to the North Central Coast Region of Vietnam. It has many important historical sites and has many beautiful natural scenes. Every year, millions of domestic and foreign tourists visit. Here we introduce the 10 most famous tourist destinations.
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1. Quang Tri Ancient Citadel
Quang Tri Ancient Citadel in Ward 2, Quang Tri Town was built in the 4th year of King Minh Mang’s reign (1824). This place had to cope with a huge amount of bombs and bombs pouring down from the US with destructive power equivalent to 8 atomic bombs that the US dropped on Hiroshima (Japan) in 1945. Vietnamese Liberation Army soldiers still very tenaciously held and defended the citadel for 81 days and nights until the order to withdraw troops, creating a victory on the negotiating table of our army and people at the Paris Conference.
Quang Tri Ancient Citadel – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Quang Tri
2. La Vang Holy Land
La Vang Holy Land is located in the ancient area called Dinh Cat (in the reign of Lord Nguyen Hoang in the 16th century, this area was called Dinh Cat (Sand Palace) because the palace was built on “đẩ cát” (a sandy land)), now in Hai Phu Commune of Hai Lang District. Quang Tri Province.
La Vang is a sanctuary church of Catholics. Catholics believe that the Virgin Mary appeared in this church in 1798. The church has been rebuilt several times and is also an important pilgrimage site for Vietnamese Catholics. La Vang Holy Land has been proclaimed by the Vatican as the Little Basilica of La Vang.
La Vang Holy Land – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Quang Tri
3. Hien Luong Bridge and Ben Hai River
Hien Luong Bridge across Ben Hai River in Vinh Linh District, dividing the banks of Ben Hai River, has become historical evidence of our people’s heroic but arduous resistance war. This is also a famous tourist destination in Quang Tri that visitors cannot ignore when coming here. According to the 1954 Geneva Agreement on Vietnam, the Ben Hai River and the 17th parallel were selected as a temporary military demarcation line, and the Hien Luong Bridge crossing the river was also divided into two halves.
Hien Luong Bridge and Ben Hai River – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Quang Tri
4. Lao Bao Prison
Lao Bao Prison is one of the largest prisons in Indochina. This is the place where many key communist revolutionaries were imprisoned, who later became senior leaders of the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam such as poet To Huu, General Nguyen Chi Thanh… This place has been recognized as a “national historical and cultural relic”.
Since the feudal period of the Nguyen Dynasty, this place has been a garrison in the border region, guarding a part of the western territory of Dai Nam territory. Before that, it was a rugged and dangerous mountainous area, often considered a place of “sacred forest, poisonous water”.
Lao Bao Prison – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Quang Tri
5. My Thuy Beach
My Thuy Beach is located in Hai An Commune, Hai Lang District, Quang Tri. This is a beautiful beach, as famous as Con Co Island. Visitors here, besides exploring nature, swimming in the sea, also enjoy a lot of delicious and attractive seafood dishes. Especially in the summer, My Thuy Beach will be a great resort, attracting a lot of tourists from all over the world to visit.
My Thuy Beach – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Quang Tri
6. Khe Sanh
Khe Sanh is located on Highway 9 in Huong Hoa District, the US Army and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam have built Khe Sanh to become the largest stronghold in the line of defense line 9, a line of defense that is considered ” inviolable”.
Khe Sanh – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Quang Tri
7. Dakrong Beauty Spot
Dakrong Beauty Spot is the common name for an area with the majestic and lyrical natural scenery of the western mountains of Quang Tri. Dakrong Beauty Spot has the beautiful Dakrong River hiding in it many epic legends, the charming Dakrong Bridge among the clouds, rivers, mountains, and precious natural mineral water mines. This place is also an important node of the Ho Chi Minh Route and National Highway 9, the Trans-Asia route passing through Lao Bao – Den Sa Van international border gate.
Dakrong Beauty Spot – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Quang Tri
8. Con Co Island
From Cua Tung Beach of Vinh Linh District, looking to the west, you will see a blue island emerging in the sea like a battleship guarding offshore, which is Con Co Island. The island is like an outpost located in the middle of the 17th parallel to the east of the country. Not only famous for its resilience during the war against the US, but Con Co Island is also one of the rare and beautiful islands of Central Vietnam.
Con Co Island – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Quang Tri
9. Cua Tung Beach
Cua Tung Beach is beautiful with white and smooth sand, where there are eight red Badan capes as the evening sun and rushing to the sea, forming a magnificent tortoiseshell comb, combing millions of layers of blue waves for thousands of years.
Cua Tung Beach – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Quang Tri
10. Vinh Moc Tunnels
Vinh Moc tunnel village in Vinh Moc Village, Vinh Thach Commune, Vinh Linh district is a legend in the anti-American era. This place has become a place of patriotic traditional education for the younger generations, as well as an attractive tourist attraction in Quang Tri for visitors.
The tunnels are designed like an underground village with 94 family apartments, with freshwater wells to meet the activities of the people of the tunnels, a hall that can accommodate up to 60 people, a bulletin board, a midwifery house, toilet, operating room, with Hoang Cam kitchen (a type of stove that can cook underground but limit smoke), rice storage, telephone station, observatory, and guard station, drill bomb shelter.
Vinh Moc Tunnels – Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Quang Tri
