(HBO) – Located about 100km from Hanoi, Thac Bo Temple is a famous spiritual tourist destination in Hoa Binh. The site was listed as a national relic site by the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism in 2009.

 


Photo: The well-known spiritual tourist site of Thac Bo Temple draws a large number of visitors.

Lying in the Thac Bo area on the Da River, the Thac Bo Temple complex comprises Trinh Temple (God Temple), Chau (God Chau) Temple, and Thac Bo Cave (Fairy Cave). The temple worships two Goddesses of Muong and Dao people.

Legend has it that the Thac Bo Goddesses are Dinh Thi Van, a Muong woman, and an un-known woman from Dao ethnic group in Vay Nua commune. They offered support in food and boats to King Le Loi (1384 – 1433) to cross Bo Waterfall and beat Deo Cat Han rebels in Muong Le, Son La province. After their deaths, the women's souls often appeared to help locals control the water flow and cross the waterfall safely, and bless them with favourable weather conditions. Therefore, locals honour them as Goddesses and construct the temple to worship them.

Each year, in the seventh day of the first lunar month, Thac Bo Temple festival is held. It runs through the end of the third lunar month. However, right in the last month of the previous lunar year, people flock to the temple to worship, with boats filling the temple’s port area.

Thac Bo Temple, despite being small in size, is a sacred place. Along with its beautiful landscape with harmony of mountain and water, the site has 38 statues of different sizes, including two bronze ones.

Arriving in Thac Bo Temple, worshipers will start from Trinh Temple to Chua Temple. It takes 15-20 minutes rowing from one to the other, during which visitors can enjoy stunning landscapes from hundreds of stone islands in different sizes and fresh air. At the last destination of the tour, visitors can taste special dishes sold in the foot of the temple before exploring the Da River.

Each year, the Thac Bo national historical relic site attracts dozens of thousands of visitors who come to pray for peace and luck and wish for a good start for the year and enjoy the impressive beauty of Hoa Binh./.

 


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