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Ba Be lake national park is located in Nam Mau Commune,
Bac Kan Province, about
230km from Ha Noi, Ba Be Lake (Three-section lake) is one of the few spectacular
natural fresh-water lakes in the world.
The lake is inside the Ba Be National Park, which covers an area of 10,048ha and
has the total water surface and lakeside area for preservation of 952.75ha. The
other related area in the Ba Be National Park is 9,095.25ha. The park has been
recognized as a national tourism site.
More than 200 million years ago, the movement of tectonic plates that created
South East Asia brought a body of water with the surface area of 5 million
square meters to a height of 150m above sea level in the middle of karst
mountains. The water body formed Ba Be Lake with three sections named Pe Lam, Pe
Lu, and Pe Leng. The average depth of the lake is more than 20m and the deepest
point is 35m.
The whole area of the Ba Be National Park is appealing to visitors as it
includes a karst plateau, Dau Dang waterfall, a karst chasm to the Nang River,
the lake itself, forests, and a number of caves. Apart from the spectacular
beauty, the area also includes archeological, cultural and religious sites and
places told in legends, such as Fairy Pond, An Ma Mound, etc.
The environment, climate, geology, and geomorphology of the area form the
biodiversity for Ba Be Lake with a closed ever-green tropical forest ecosystem.
Around the lake, there are about 1,268 species of vascular plants and 470
species of vertebrates including 81 species of mammals, 234 birds, 30 reptiles,
18 amphibians and 107 species of fish. There are also about 367 types of
butterflies and invertebrate species.
In 1995, Ba Be Lake was recognized by the World Lake Conference held in the
United States as one of the 20 most special freshwater lakes in the world that
need protecting. In 2004, the Ba Be National Park is recognized as an ASEAN
Heritage Park.
It takes nature-lovers at least 3 days to explore the Ba Be Lake tourist site.
It would be out of this world for them as they have chance to rest and have fun
in the most popular type of accommodation here: home-stay, where tourists can
enjoy special local dishes made from food caught and raised from the lake. They
may also be engaged in other leisure activities such as rowing a boat on the
lake, going trekking in forests and having adventurous time in caves of the lake
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