Vietnam Stories: Ba Be National Park
26/2/10 - Ba Be National Park is 240km northwest of Hanoi, it takes about 6 hours to drive there along a mixture of highway and then windy back roads. The countryside along the way is hilly and the roads were lined with a lot of school kids on bicycles. The country was dryer than that around Cuc Phuong and there had been a drought in the area over recent times.
Many of the towns we passed through were dusty, frontier places. The eatery that we stopped at for lunch had enough Vodka stockpiled in boxes to keep half of Russia happy. Some folks around towns like Bak Kan obviously had big drinking problems.
9 Days - Northeastern Discovery
Highlights: Hanoi – Thai Nguyen – Ba Be (Bac Kan) – Cao Bang – Ban Gioc – Hanoi – Ha Long.
Duration: 9 days/ 8 nights
Trip start: Hanoi
Trip end: Hanoi
Tour type: Adventure Tours, Cruise Tours
Vietnam Travel Destinations: Cao Bang
Cao Bang is 272 km north of Hanoi, a province in the Northeast of Vietnam, bordered with China. There are nine ethnic minorities living in Cao Bang, including the Tay, Nung, Dao, and H’mong.
Famous sites include Thang Then Lake in Tra Linh, Ban Gioc Fall in Trung Khanh, and Ba Be Lake in Ba Be.
