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Ban Gioc Waterfall – the largest one in Vietnam!
Ban Gioc Waterfall is now an attractive beauty spot for national and international visitors. Travelling some 272 km from Hanoi, you will reach the splendid fall...
Ban Gioc Waterfall on the Quy Xuan River is located in Cao Bang Province, nears the Sino-Vietnamese border. Thewaterfall falls thirty meters. It is separated into three falls byrocks and trees, and the thundering effect of the water hitting thecliffs can be heard kilometers away from Trung Khanh.

BanDoc Waterfall is situated in Dam Thuy Commune, Trung Khanh District.The Quay Son River rises from China flowing into our country in Po Peo(Ngoc Khe Commune) and to communes including Dinh Phong and Chi Vien.When it reaches Dam Thuy Commune of Trung Khanh District, the mildriver circles around Co Muong mountain bottom and flows to rice fieldsof Dam Thuy towards the large maize alluvial plain of Ban Gioc village.Here, the flow divides into many branches and lowers its flow to creatBan Gioc Waterfall.

Waterfrom Quy Xuan River falling down on the stone creates water dropletscolumns that can be seen from a distance. The temperature near thewaterfall is remarkably cool, due to the water mist in the air. At thefoot of the waterfall is a large river, as calm as glass, surrounded bymany precious kinds of flowers. Ban Gioc Fall is famous for a famousfish named “tram huong”. In the early 1920s, French people startedbuilding cottages on the river banks. They would come here to relax,fish for “tram huong”, and hunt deer.

Thesight in Ban Gioc Waterfall bears a poetic, fresh, quiet beauty ofwater, forest and cloud area mixed with village atmosphere ofmountainous ethnic minorities. Young people and ethnic people usuallysing the impressive verses about the imposing fall:

“Bản Giốc thác nước đẹp sao!

Việt Nam há chẳng thác nào đẹp hơn”

 (How wonderful Ban Gioc Waterfall is!

In Vietnam, no another fall can be more beautiful)

So now, why don’t you visit Ban Gioc Waterfall, for sight-seeing, trying to fish for “tram huong” and hunt deer?

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