(HBO) – Located about 100km from Hanoi, Thac Bo Temple is a famous spiritual tourist destination in Hoa Binh. The site was listed as a national relic site by the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism in 2009.
Photo: The well-known spiritual tourist site of Thac Bo Temple draws a
large number of visitors.
Lying in the Thac Bo area on the Da River, the Thac Bo Temple complex comprises
Trinh Temple (God Temple), Chau (God Chau) Temple, and Thac Bo Cave (Fairy
Cave). The temple worships two Goddesses of Muong and Dao people.
Legend has it that the Thac Bo Goddesses are Dinh Thi Van, a Muong woman, and
an un-known woman from Dao ethnic group in Vay Nua commune. They offered
support in food and boats to King Le Loi (1384 – 1433) to cross Bo Waterfall
and beat Deo Cat Han rebels in Muong Le, Son La province. After their deaths,
the women's souls often appeared to help locals control the water flow and
cross the waterfall safely, and bless them with favourable weather conditions.
Therefore, locals honour them as Goddesses and construct the temple to worship
them.
Each year, in the seventh day of the first lunar month, Thac Bo Temple festival
is held. It runs through the end of the third lunar month. However, right in
the last month of the previous lunar year, people flock to the temple to
worship, with boats filling the temple’s port area.
Thac Bo Temple, despite being small in size, is a sacred place. Along with its
beautiful landscape with harmony of mountain and water, the site has 38 statues
of different sizes, including two bronze ones.
Arriving in Thac Bo Temple, worshipers will start from Trinh Temple to Chua
Temple. It takes 15-20 minutes rowing from one to the other, during which
visitors can enjoy stunning landscapes from hundreds of stone islands in
different sizes and fresh air. At the last destination of the tour, visitors
can taste special dishes sold in the foot of the temple before exploring the Da
River.
Each year, the Thac Bo national historical relic site attracts dozens of
thousands of visitors who come to pray for peace and luck and wish for a good
start for the year and enjoy the impressive beauty of Hoa Binh./.
Hoa Binh province’s rich natural and cultural resources position it as a prime location for developing community-based tourism (CBT). In recent years, support from central and provincial policies, as well as assistance from non-governmental organisations, have encouraged local ethnic minority and mountainous communities to actively engage in the sector.
Van Son Commune, Tan Lạc district, Hoa Binh province also known as "Cloud Valley," boasts a cool climate, stunning natural landscapes, and majestic scenery. Visitors who have been to this place should make a stop at Chien Hamlet to experience a lot of fascinating things and feel the friendly, warmth of the Muong ethnic people.
Thanks to the effective exploitation of natural landscape and the cultural diversity of ethnic minorities, Hoa Binh province has become an attractive destination for tourists seeking experiences and exploration.
The Department of Cultural Heritage has just coordinated with the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Hoa Binh province to organize a training on implementing the model of the cultural heritage connected in the cultural tourism journey in Cao Phong and Lac Son districts.
The Sung village in Cao Son commune, Da Bac district, is endowed with pristine natural landscape, and Dao Tien ethnic minority community in the village preserves rich cultural heritage, including traditional housing, clothing, language, scripts, customs, and daily life practices. Since the community-based tourism model was introduced in the locality, these traditional cultural values have been further preserved and promoted.
