Thang Hen Lake, where there is a waterfall, has a vast green meadow, has a quiet, romantic, true-to-standard space called “Excellent Tinh Coc”.
Located in a mountainous area 1000 meters above sea level, the Thang Hen Lake complex consists of 36 natural freshwater lakes, each lake separated from several tens to several hundred meters. This lake has a diamond shape, width from 100m – 300m, length from 500m – 1000m, depth from 10m – 40m. All year-round, the lake does not dry up.
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Here, with a picturesque reputation, the lake surface is like a glittering emerald mirror, neatly located among the green forest canopy of the mountains, the charming landscape of the country. You will have to be immersed in the surrounding landscape, with the forest canopy, white fillings, black carp, mixed with cat-ear rocks, …
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Each season of the five Thang Hen Lake brings a different beauty, but the most beautiful is probably spring, the time when the flowers bloom all kinds of colors along the lake. In summer, due to heavy rain, the lake rises immensely, creating a beautiful diamond-shaped shape. In winter and autumn, there are places only 5m deep in shallow lake water. In this season, the water surface shines brightly to reflect the lush green forests.
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More unique is the daily water level of the lake has 2 waves of rising and falling like the tide. While, during the flood season, other lakes turn red, Thang Hen lakes still keep their turquoise green color. If you stay overnight, around September-October, you will see the lake drain in just a few hours and then fill again.
In the early morning, white clouds floating across the mountainside, the surface of Thang Hen lake hides the green color behind the fanciful open mist. The shores, the green grass, are dotted with pink, purple, and white colors of the wild flowers caught in morning mist.
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The name of Ho Thang Hen is also known as “bee tail”, this name is that when viewed from above, you will immediately think of the shape of the bee’s tail. The lake has a width of about 100m – 300m, length from 500m – 1,000m depending on the water level rising and falling in the rainy or dry season in a year.
The lake is also interesting thanks to the charming landscape of Thang Hen when it is associated with legends, legends and mysteries, which is one of the reasons to decode the phenomenon of “people traveling crazy legs” when want to come here to explore and make a footprint.
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When the sun is high, you will admire the scenery of golden rays of sunshine pouring honey into the sparkling lake surface, reflecting the shadows of trees reaching over cliffs, adorning the ball of boats moored peacefully on the water. .
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When traveling to this lake, you will have the opportunity to take a boat on the blue lake, enjoy the beautiful nature, explore Thang Hen cave, about 200m deep, straight to the top of the mountain. Or simply walk around the lake, enjoy the fresh air. Then enjoy dishes imbued with ethnic identity processed from products from the lake bed and experience the life of the Tay ethnic minority.
The legend of Thang Hen Lake always leaves curiosity to all visitors when visiting
The legend of Thang Hen Lake always leaves curiosity for all visitors when visiting. According to folk legend, in the old days in Cao Bang, there was a young and intelligent man named Sung. He passed the exam to become a mandarin and was rewarded with seven days of honor by the king. Back home, he married a beautiful Booc. Intrigued by his beautiful newlywed wife, he forgot the day he returned to the business.
Until Saturday night, he suddenly remembered, said goodbye to his wife and parents and ran back to his family. In the middle of the night in the wilderness, he ran 36 steps, then fell his head and hit the mountain and died. His 36 steps today are 36 large and small lakes with different names for the dialects of Tra Linh district. The names of the lake are named according to the local language, such as Thang Vat, Na Ma, Thang Looong, Thang Hoi … dating back hundreds of years.
Thang Hen Lake is like a translucent jade mirror
Although 36 natural freshwater lakes in the Thang Hen lake complex all have separate banks, they are all connected by underground caves. The charming landscape of water painting associated with legends, legends and mysteries has attracted many young people to come here to explore. In the morning light, when floating white clouds stretching across the mountainside, from above, you can see the surface of Thang Hen Lake like a translucent emerald mirror. The lake is diamond-shaped, neatly located in the forest canopy mixed with cat-ear rocky outcrops, looks like a giant “bee tail” exactly as the meaning of the word “Thang Hen” in the Tay ethnic language.
Thang Hen Lake complex is located in the Cao Bang UNESCO Non-national Geopark area
Thang Hen in the local language means “bee tail”, because from above, you can see the whole lake, shaped like the tail of a giant bee. Thang Hen Lake complex is located in the Cao Bang UNESCO Non-national Geopark area. According to scientists, the Thang Hen lake – river – cave complex developed in the limestone of the Bac Son formation. At the intersection of the Northwest – Southeast, Northeast – Southwest fault systems, the latitude and the sublatitude.
Thang Hen in the local language means “bee tail”.
The lakes are located at the bottom of closed valleys, surrounded by peaks that are still linked together through low saddles, creating a typical valley-top cluster landscape. The peaks are quite equal, being the remnants of a leveled surface at an altitude of about 650 m, while the valley bottom ranges from 550 to 600 meters. The water lines show that the lake water level fluctuates around 20m around 600m. Several fossil cave floors were observed in the 600 – 650m altitude while active caves were even lower. According to the survey results in 2012 by the French – Vietnamese cave expert delegation, a part of the underground cave system connected to Thang Hen lake developed to 820m in the latitude and sub-latitude directions and up to 54 m deep compared to the locality. current image.
Thang Hen lake ecotourism area is being invested quite in scale
Thang Hen Lake eco-tourism area is being invested quite a large scale, with a system of wooden stilt houses with hundreds of bedrooms, restaurants, tennis courts … ready to serve tourists to visit. , Resort. Here, visitors can enjoy dishes from Thang Hen Lake such as: green pickled fish, Anh Vu fish, mountain shrimp, hill chicken, roasted pig, spring beef …; and in the feeling of lightheadedness from the warm taste of corn wine, yeast leaves, visitors will be immersed in the sweet melody of sli sentences, captivating sentences.
Thang Hen Lake is home to more than 100 different fish species
It is reported that Thang Hen Lake is home to more than 100 different species of fish, including some rare and precious species such as: burning fish, catfish, anh vu, ox, goby … Fish here They grow fast because they live in a clean environment, and have a plentiful source of natural food.
The forest around the lake has a rich flora, with precious wooden trees such as ancient clenching with hundreds of years of lifespan and many beautiful forest orchids … Besides, there are wild animals such as yellow monkeys, grouse, wild birds …
During the flood season, when other lakes turn red, the water of Thang Hen Lake is still blue
The unique thing is, daily the lake water level has 2 waves of rising and falling like the tide. Or in the flood season, when other lakes turn red, the water of Thang Hen Lake is still blue. Especially, around September – October, at night, the lake water drained out in just a few hours, then filled again after that. When the lake is shallow, there are craters on the mud surface, surrounded by twisted tree trunks as if drawn down, these are mysterious underground caves and streams.
Every day, the lake water level has 2 waves of rising and falling like the tide
Coming here to visit, you will have the opportunity to take a boat on the blue lake, enjoy the beautiful nature, explore Thang Hen cave; Or simply take a walk around the lake, enjoy the fresh and spacious atmosphere; Or join an ethnic village visit near the lake, learn the local culture …
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After that, enjoy Cao Bang specialties processed from lake products such as braised green pickled fish, sautéed English chili fish, braised mountain shrimp … or hill chicken, roasted pork, fragrant beef vegetables. good reputation … with a warm wine flavor distilled from corn and leaf yeast according to Tay’s traditional method. At night, by the bonfire of the campfire, you can also see a performance team consisting of Tay girls and boys performing passionate sli, key singing, and passionate singing.
Let’s go to Cao Bang once to see Thang Hen Lake
Currently, with local investment, the Thang Hen lake complex has become an ideal eco-tourism and resort destination for tourists. Around the lake, there are motels and rowing boats to take guests to visit. Visitors coming here can also enjoy the traditional dishes from the lake products such as braised green crab fish, sautéed chili fish, braised mountain shrimp … in addition to corn porridge, corn wine, hill chickens, pigs. roasted, famous beef steak. In particular, the tunes of sli singing, then singing, and singing songs are passionate about people.
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