(HBO) - Thac Bo Cave belongs to the relic complex of Bo Waterfall, which is an ideal destination known by many people and attracts a lot of tourists to visit Bo sacred Temple and enjoy Hoa Binh Lake.


 Tourists visiting Thac Bo Cave.

It is quite convenient to travel to Thac Bo Cave from the Highway 6. You can follow the road Binh Thanh - Thung Nai, and then go about 20 minutes waterway or you can leave from Bich Ha pier in Thai Thinh commune and travel to in about 1 hour by boat.

Thac Bo Cave is located in Ngoc pier in the northern slope, on the bank of Da River. Bo waterfall was once called Van Bo waterfall, which was created by hundreds of large and small cliffs undulating like a huge elephant group in the middle of Da River. It has a legend that the temple worships Bo Waterfall Princess of Dinh Thi Van - a Muong person, who helped Le Loi King manage the food and boats for the military force to overcome Bo waterfall and cross to Muong Le, Son La to pacify Cat Han Pass Party. After shedied, she usually made her epiphany to help people overcome the waterfall safely and bless hundreds of people in the area with favorable weather and climate. People living in the area set up a temple to worship her. Bo waterfall temple once belonged to Hao Trang commune, and after a lot of changes about administrative boundaries, it is now located between Thung Nai commune, Cao Phong district and Vay Nua commune, Da Bac district, Hoa Binh province.

On the journey of visiting and worshipping the temple of Bo waterfall princess, tourists will continue to exploit the Thac Bo Cave in the natural charming scene of Hoa Binh Lake. In the dry season, tourists who want to visit the cave have to go trekking about 100 stone steps from the foot of the mountain to the cave entrance. In the flooding season, visitors have to move from the boat to the floating house which is built on a bamboo raft, which runs about 50 meters to the cave entrance. From the entrance, tourists can overlook to feel majestic and romantic about the mountain and forest, as well as exploit the beauty of the mysterious cave.

The cave is divided into three areas, the first one is outside the bottom of the cave, there are many stalactites in the tourist reception, and then the Buddha Worship place which is higher about 5 meters. The arc cave area is quite large with fresh air. Besides the large altar worshipping the great Bodhisattva Buddha, the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara and the gods administer this area. The inside of the cave is composed of various stalactites by lime crust dropping droplets in millions of years, which shows the endless creativity of the majestic nature. The different shapes of the stalactites are like dragon carp, golden trees, silver trees, the sky, stone piano, Muong gong set to become a holy song of the sky piano.

In addition, you can visit some tourist destinations near Trach River, the island and guesthouse of Windmill, Bo market which is held every Sunday morning, Ngoi Hoa hamlet and cave, fish cages on the lake. You can also understand the culture, living customs, production and the life of local people through rowing, fishing, cooking, tasting the special smell of different grilled fish, Da river fish and mountainous specialties such as steamed chicken with lemon leaves, local pork grilled with honey on banana leaf, boiled bamboo shoots, special rice, wild apple wine, wild vegetables with fish sauce. All of these will make unforgettable impression after the journey to explore Thac Bo Cave of Da River Lake.

 

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