Cao Bang is famous for its extremely attractive tourist destinations. This place always has a special attraction for many tourists, especially young people who love to travel. If you are planning to explore this land, let’s join PYS Travel to find out the tourist destinations in Cao Bang that attract the most tourists.
Cao Bang has a peaceful, poetic beauty like a charming landscape painting with terrain features of hills and mountains along with many ponds, lakes and waterfalls. In addition, Bao Bang is also famous for many primeval forests and dense river and stream systems. This has contributed to making Cao Bang tourism a favorite destination for travelers who like to explore nature here. Below are places you must definitely visit when you set foot in Cao Bang.
1. Ban Gioc Waterfall
Ban Gioc Waterfall is one of the most majestic waterfalls in Vietnam (Photo: PYS Travel)
Ban Gioc Waterfall is the most majestic and beautiful high waterfall in Vietnam, located in Dam Thuy commune, Trung Khanh district, Cao Bang. Ban Gioc Waterfall consists of two parts, the main part is located between the Vietnam – China border, demarcated by the Quay Son river flowing below and the remaining part is located entirely on Vietnamese territory. The main waterfall is about 100 meters wide, 70 meters high and 60 meters deep. From a distance, the waterfall falls down in pristine white, like a white silk strip across the mountains and forests, creating a charming feature.
Torrential streams of water pour down from Ban Gioc waterfall (Photo: PYS Travel)
You will be ecstatic by the beauty of Ban Gioc waterfall – one of the most beautiful waterfalls in Vietnam. From afar, looking at the white water streams pouring down, creating a magnificent, shimmering picture. When you get close, you will be able to see and enjoy the fresh air here, you will definitely enjoy it. After visiting Ban Gioc waterfall , visit Ban Gioc Truc Lam Buddhist Pagoda. Looking down from the pagoda, you can see the entire view of Ban Gioc waterfall.
2. Magic Eye Mountain
The reason it is called God’s Eye Mountain is because the outside shape of the mountain has a circular cave at the top like an “eye” standing tall in the middle of the vast mountains and forests. The beauty of this place is the interaction between the sky and the water. Each season of the year, the scenery around Magic Eye Mountain has different colors.
Magic Eye Mountain is a divine check-in location in Cao Bang (Photo: collected)
During the rainy season, the mountain boasts with its giant “God’s Eye” reflecting on the bottom of the water amidst the surrounding mountain peaks. In the distance are rows of wildflowers blooming, creating a highlight that makes the scene here more romantic.
Hunting for photos of the sun through the beautiful God’s Eye Mountain (Photo: collected)
God’s Eye Mountain – Cao Bang tourist destination is likened to a nomadic steppe nestled among rolling rocky mountains amidst the white mist and golden sunshine. Coming here in the dry season, it will be an ideal place for tourists to organize outdoor picnics. What could be better than gathering with friends around a bunch of embers and adding a few grilled potatoes?
3. Ma Phuc Pass
The beauty of Ma Phuc Pass when viewed from above (Photo: collected)
Ma Phuc Pass is the next name among the tourist destinations that you should visit to see the landscape and experience fresh air when coming to Cao Bang. Ma Phuc Pass belongs to Quoc Toan commune, Tra Linh district, Cao Bang province. If you are a person who loves challenges and conquests, Ma Phuc Pass is an ideal place for you.
The winding road of Ma Phuc Pass (Photo: collected)
Ma Phuc Pass is considered the most beautiful pass in Cao Bang with a length of more than 3.5km, about 700m above sea level. Famous as one of the most dangerous roads in the Northeast mountains of our country. To reach the top of this pass, you have to go through 7 steep turns with winding passes, surrounded by mountains and forests, which will definitely give you a very new feeling.
Besides, while conquering Ma Phuc Pass and viewing the panoramic nature, you can also visit the market and buy Cao Bang’s specialties, which is a very interesting experience for tourists coming here.
4. Thang Hen Lake
Thang Hen Lake is the most beautiful lake among a total of 36 large and small lakes in the mountainous areas of Tra Linh district. This place is famous for its peaceful beauty and green water. Located about 50 km from Cao Bang city. This is one of the places that makes backpackers crazy about “packing their backpacks and going”.
The blue water of Thang Hen Lake (Photo: collected)
Early in the morning, looking down from above, you see the lake surface blurred by morning mist, like being lost in a fairyland. When walking on boats, you can see wild orchids or rare animals in the mountains and listen to emotional sli, luon, then songs.
Taking a scenic boat ride on Thang Hen Lake is also an extremely interesting experience (Photo: collected)
If you come to Thang Hen during the ripe rice season, you will be able to see beautiful golden strips of ripe rice like a giant carpet woven by the hand of the creator and “feel satisfied” with your sense of hearing in the fragrant smell of young rice. Sweet and stimulating. Thang Hen Lake has a charming landscape with rows of green trees reaching up on steep cliffs, reflecting on the blue water surface, curving along the valley floor with rocky reefs.
5. Nguom Ngao Cave
Nguom Ngao Cave has a length of 2,144m, located in the heart of a mountain in Gun village, Dam Thuy commune, Trung Khanh district, about 50km from Cao Bang city, about 3km from Ban Gioc waterfall. Because it is located in an unfavorable terrain, the road from Cao Bang city to Trung Khanh with quite winding and dangerous passes, Nguom Ngao cave was previously little known.
Masterpiece of nature in Cao Bang (Photo: PYS Travel)
Since backpacking tourism has been strongly developed in Vietnam and has almost become a trend for adventurous young people to explore, Nguom Ngao cave has become as famous and “hot” as Ban Gioc waterfall or Pac cave. Bo when mentioning Cao Bang.
The space inside Nguom Ngao cave (Photo: PYS Travel)
With the magical beauty of stalactites in all shapes and sizes, Nguom Ngao cave is known as the most beautiful cave in Vietnam. It is a cave located in the mountain, formed about 300 million years ago, with interesting images such as dodder trees, breast milk, magic toads, stone guitars…
Beautiful check-in location (Photo: PYS Travel)
And it is impossible to ignore the most prominent “highlights” of Nguom Ngao: coral trees and ships, golden waterfalls, silver waterfalls, upside-down lotus flowers, and lonely stone pillars. All of the above scenes were created by nature from stalactites and limestone stalagmites, without any human intervention, but they appear extremely vivid and captivating.
Unique stalactites inside Nguom Ngao cave (Photo: collected)
Nguom Ngao Cave consists of 3 main gates: Nguom Lom gate, cool all year round, hidden under the rocks at the foot of the mountain, Nguom Ngao gate a few hundred steps from the foot of the mountain, and Ban Thuon gate behind the mountain, next to Thuon village of the people. Tay. In the cave there are many stalactites and stalagmites with many diverse shapes.
6. Pac Bo – Lenin Stream relic
Pac Bo – two ringing calls make people’s hearts sob about the ancient historical relic complex. The place that made the hearts of the great Revolutionary – President Ho Chi Minh also flutter to the scene of lovemaking ‘In the morning, go to the stream bank, and at night, go to the cave’. Pac Bo Cave was inherently beautiful, but now it is even more beautiful. Going back to distant Cao Bang, stopping at Pac Bo, tourists not only have the opportunity to reminisce about the heroic past of their ancestors but also have the opportunity to admire a beautiful painting like a fairyland.
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Towering cliffs, gurgling streams, endless lake beds with water the color of the autumn sky, and lush green forests that change color with the seasons give Pac Bo a breathtakingly beautiful scene, a saying that one is lost in the countryside. Fairy tale.
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Coming here, you can experience many interesting journeys. You will learn many more things about the great leader of the nation, because this is where Uncle Ho first set foot when he returned after more than 30 years of traveling to find a way to save the country. Not only that, if you are a mountaineer, this is an ideal place. Climbing mountains in the fresh, cool air with a bit of wildness and solitude will be an interesting experience when you set foot in this land.
7. Me Pia Pass
Me Pia Pass is one of the most famous passes in Cao Bang province, Northwest region of Vietnam. Accordingly, Me Pia Pass located on National Highway 4A has a total length of only 2.5km but because of the slope, it is created into a winding road like a silk strip in the wind. This entire pass is located in Xuan Truong commune, connecting this commune with the center of Bao Lac, a district bordering China.
Me Pia Pass is famous for its 14 dangerous steep slopes (Photo: collected)
Many people who do not remember the exact name of Me Pia often call it the steep 14-storey pass because of its inherent shape. Built to connect a commune and a district center on a steep mountain slope, Me Pia Pass had to be made into a curve to make the steeply sloping 2.5km road safer when traveling by car. motorbike.
Me Pia Pass challenges even the most steadfast drivers (Photo: collected)
Because of its dangerous and picturesque curves, this road is always the place that many domestic and foreign backpackers want to conquer when coming to the Northwest region, typically Cao Bang.
8. Cao Bang ancient stone village
The stilt houses of the Tay people in Chongqing are a sacred area – a place that preserves the characteristics of traditional material and spiritual life for many generations. After the ups and downs of life, to this day, in the minds of the Tay people, the “stone god” is still attached and exists in their concepts. If you want to have interesting experiences with Cao Bang tourist destinations, you should not miss this place.
Cao Bang ancient stone village is an ancient house architecture of the Tay ethnic people here (Photo: collected)
This feature may be due to the geographical location of the area with many limestone mountains, so rocks play a very important role in the life of the community here. Stone is widely used in the daily life of ethnic minorities. The house is built of stone, cliffs, the foundation is made of stone and the footings are also made of stone, redone. Stone is also used in other construction projects such as fences, dams, factories, kitchens…
9. Milestone 108
Milestone 108 is the place that left the deepest impression in the history of the Vietnamese revolution, and is also the first place where Uncle Ho returned after 30 years away from home to find a way to save the country. Milestone 108 is not only a Cao Bang tourist destination where historical footage is preserved, but it also gives visitors the most authentic feeling with every step.
Milestone 108 is a place of great historical significance (Photo: collected)
For the people here, Cao Bang has nothing but anecdotes that have entered every page of national history. Milestone 108 has sacred significance, preserved and kept for many generations. Not only is it a historical witness in many resistance wars, but landmark 108 still stands proudly to follow every step of visitors passing through this place.
10. Phja Oac National Park – Phja Den
Take time to explore “Sleeping Beauty” Phja Den – Phja Oac and the ancient houses here. If you come here in winter, you will also see this place covered in beautiful white snow.
Poetic scenery on the mountain top of Phja Oac National Park – Phja Den (Photo: collected)
Located in the UNESCO Non nuoc Cao Bang Global Geopark system, Phja Oac – Phja Den National Park (Nguyen Binh) is famous for its many beautiful natural landscapes, imbued with wildness, and still preserves many species. Rare animals and plants have value for scientific research, genetic resource conservation and environmental education.
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Phja Oac peak is 1,931 m high and is considered the “roof” in the west of the province. The forest here is a type of “evergreen closed, subtropical humid forest” with 1,287 species belonging to 786 genera in 202 plant families of 6 botanical phyla in the garden; including many rare plant species listed in the Vietnam Red Book.
Explore Phja Oac National Park – Phja Den (Photo: collected)
You should visit the national broadcasting station on top of Phia Oac, visit the ecosystems of evergreen primeval forests, fairy forests, Phia Oac complex granite cliffs, waterfalls, and French-era tungsten mining tunnels. Or relics of Cao Bang’s mining and resort history such as the Red House, Tai Soong House, and the remaining wall of the motel for Governor General of Indochina Paul Doumer.
11. Nam Tra Waterfall
Nam Tra Waterfall is also a suitable stop when visiting Cao Bang. Nam Tra Waterfall is located in the middle of a wild valley, bringing a wild feeling to those who visit. The image of a waterfall appearing amidst the green of nature and the colors of the forest flowers brings a vividness that touches people’s hearts.
Nam Tra Waterfall is not often known to many people when coming to Cao Bang (Photo: collected)
Nam Tra Waterfall is located in the valley of Ban Danh hamlet, Quoc Toan commune – Tra Linh – Cao Bang about 50 km from the city center, attracting a large number of tourists with its wild beauty. You can go to Nam Tra Waterfall to travel and relax with your family. And especially, you can go to Nam Tra Waterfall all year round because no matter what time it is, Nam Tra Waterfall always retains its wild beauty.
12. Karl Marx Mountain
Karl Marx Mountain used to be the revolutionary base of Uncle Ho and his soldiers. The reason this place is used as a base is because the mountain is covered with densely packed forests that are both airy and secretive, very convenient for shelter. Karl Marx Mountain not only has great historical value but also possesses a prime location and harmonious landscape blessed by nature.
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Let’s go back to the historical years, at the foot of the mountain, where Uncle Ho often set up a stove to cook rice, boil water, and take guava leaves to make tea. Walking along the mossy stone path of the Lenin stream, visitors can also see firsthand the bamboo garden that Uncle Ho planted himself and the guava garden where Uncle Ho often used dried leaves to boil water. This is a Cao Bang tourist destination that every tourist should not miss on their trip.
13. Truc Lam Buddhist Pagoda
Truc Lam Ban Gioc Buddhist Pagoda is located on Phia Nhung mountain, Dam Thuy commune, about 500m from Ban Gioc waterfall. Truc Lam Ban Gioc Buddhist Pagoda was built in a pure Vietnamese architectural style. The overall architecture of the pagoda includes the three-entrance gate, bell tower, drum tower, stone stele and three jewels, Patriarch church, Mother church, temples of national heroes, Nam Viet Trieu To Hung Kings of all generations, houses guests and supporting landscape items.
Standing from the top of Truc Lam Buddhist Pagoda, you can see Ban Gioc waterfall below (Photo: collected)
Viewed from above, Truc Lam Ban Gioc Buddhist Pagoda is located in the middle of a vast space of green forest, giving visitors to the pagoda a feeling of peace and comfort of fresh air and this is also one of the most beautiful places in the world. spiritual destination to serve tourists. And Truc Lam Ban Gioc Buddhist Pagoda is important in developing Ban Gioc Waterfall Tourist Area into a key national tourist area.
14. Cao Bang fair
For highland people, the market is a cultural feature as well as an indispensable part of daily life. Because for them, this is not only a place to buy and sell normal goods, but also a place to express emotions, meet and exchange between people, and a dating place for village men and women.
Cao Bang fair is a unique feature of Cao Bang (Photo: collected)
If Can Tho is famous for Cai Rang floating market, the market is a specialty in Cao Bang. Each place has its own unique culture, but all have created a traditional beauty that cannot be erased. . The reason it is called a market is because this market does not take place every day, but is divided into specific times by week, month, and each locality. Coming to this attractive Cao Bang tourist destination, visitors will experience “going to the market” with a completely new feeling that can only be found in this place.
15. Ethnic craft villages in Cao Bang
Phia Thap village, home to 50 Nung ethnic families, is surrounded by green rice fields and mountains. Local people have had a long-standing profession of making incense. Every year, as the Lunar New Year approaches, the village is busy preparing to make incense.
Tourists experience traditional craft villages in Cao Bang (Photo: collected)
Pac Rang Forging Village is another interesting place to visit in Cao Bang. The people of Pac Rang village have had a traditional blacksmithing profession for many generations. This village is home to 51 households of the Nung An ethnic group. In Pac Rang, almost every house has a furnace and sells blacksmithing with diverse products such as knives, hoes, shovels, etc.
Scene of tool forging at Pac Rang Forging Village (Photo: collected)
In addition to the forge, people here also grow rice, crops and raise livestock. The houses of the people here are stilt houses. They preserve cultural traditions and wear their own traditional costumes. This is a great place for culture enthusiasts when visiting Cao Bang.
With the above 15 Cao Bang tourist destinations , surely you already know more about many tourist destinations in Cao Bang. Cao Bang land is not only famous for having many beautiful natural landscapes, but this place also has meaning. Historical culture is extremely important to our nation. Don’t hesitate, come to PYS Travel to have the best Cao Bang tour options for yourself.