Thang Hen Lake - A colorful natural picture in the mountainous region of Cao Bang

Thang Hen Lake (Cao Bang) is a very famous tourist destination that attracts many tourists. With a very poetic scenery and the surrounding clear blue water covered by limestone mountains, this place was once likened to the "Tuyet Tinh Coc" of the Viet Bac mountains.

Thang Hen Lake (Cao Bang) is a very famous tourist destination that attracts many tourists. With a very poetic scenery and the surrounding clear blue water covered by limestone mountains, this place was once likened to the "Tuyet Tinh Coc" of the Viet Bac mountains.

Hồ Thang Hen   Bức tranh sơn thủy hữu tình

Thang Hen Lake - A colorful natural picture in the mountainous region of Cao Bang

Located in the mountains more than 1,000m above sea level, Thang Hen lake complex includes 36 natural freshwater lakes, each of which is a few dozen to several hundred meters apart. The lakes are all connected by underground caves. Around the lake is a large valley, contiguous between Quoc Toan commune (Tra Linh) and Ngu Lao commune (Hoa An), Cao Bang.

Hồ Thang Hen   Bức tranh sơn thủy hữu tình

Thang Hen Lake - A colorful natural picture in the mountainous region of Cao Bang

The name of Thang Hen lake in Tay language is understood as "bee's tail", the reason for this name is that when looking from above, looking down, you will immediately associate the shape of a 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 season or the dry season in a year.

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Hang Hang Hen

Located in the middle of a green mountain area with craggy rocky beaches, the clear blue lake water imprints the silhouettes of cliffs down to the lake surface. The lake is shaped like a large diamond, the water in the lake is flowing from a large cave nearby, so the water source is always flowing all day and night and it is more impressive whether the flood season or the rainy season. When dry, the lake's surface always wears a characteristic turquoise color that no lake can have.

Thang Hen Lake each season brings different beauties, no season is the same.

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Peaceful scene on Thang Hen lake.

If spring comes to Thang Hen Lake, you will witness the scenery of flowers competing to bloom, the sprouts of trees growing by the lake are budding. As for the summer, the climate here is extremely fresh and cool, this place is also a place to stop to avoid the heat of many tourists this summer, not only that, summer also coincides with the time of summer. Rain, heavy rain, the water rises here, you can clearly see the diamond shape on the lake surface, somewhere on the lake surface, there is still an image of the fishing boats of the people here created to catch in the lake.

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Thang Hen Lake - A colorful natural picture in the mountainous region of Cao Bang

Autumn is the time when visitors to Thang Hen Lake are relatively crowded. Come here, you will see images of natural mountains and forests covered with a scum color of ripe rice, or images of green trees entering the season. or leaves, not only that, when autumn comes to this tourist destination on the way, you can also easily see wild sunflowers blooming along both sides of the road, or buckwheat flower bushes.

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Morning dew on Thang Hen lake.

And winter comes to Thang Hen Lake because it is the dry season, so the water is often shallower than in other areas, you can even see the bottom of the lake, the calm waters along with the shadows of the trees. down, bold on the lake surface.

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