Cloud hunting on Cao Ly peak, watching Yen Tu autumn, discovering the wild beauty of Binh Lieu are experiences you can try after coming to Quang Ninh.
VnExpress Marathon Amazing Ha Long 2023 with more than 10,000 runners participating will return on September 10. This is the time when the North enters autumn with clear, cool weather, light winds, suitable for trips combining sports and nature exploration tourism. If you have a long schedule, runners and tourists coming to Quang Ninh in autumn can go far away from Ha Long, enjoy the peaceful, romantic beauty of many lands.
Discover Binh Lieu
Binh Lieu is about a two-hour drive from Ha Long City. It has a temperate climate all year round, diverse terrain and beautiful natural scenery, and is considered a "miniature Sa Pa". In autumn, Binh Lieu attracts tourists with reed fields along both sides of the road to the milestone. If lucky, visitors can also admire the golden season with terraced fields of ripe rice.
Coming to Binh Lieu, visitors often check-in with many border markers. At any time of the day, walking on the "dinosaur spine" covered with cogon grass, you can also gaze at the wonderful natural scenery and feel how small you are in the vastness of the sky and earth.
Golden season in Binh Lieu. Photo: Le Cao Hai
The market is also a special cultural feature. The market is held every Saturday and Sunday. People from all over the village from neighboring communes and districts also bring goods, agricultural and forestry products to the market to trade. Many typical items are only available at the market such as bathing leaves, medicinal herbs of ethnic minorities, wild honey, wild bamboo shoots... People come to the market to buy, sell, and eat from morning to late afternoon, but the busiest time is from 10am onwards, with vehicles filling the parking lot and goods displayed everywhere. After finishing the VnExpress Marathon, if runners have lunch in Ha Long and move to Binh Lieu, they will be in time to participate in the afternoon market.
Cloud hunting on the top of Cao Ly
Cao Ly, also in Binh Lieu district, is a high mountain range stretching over 40 km2 with 8 peaks over 1,000 m high. Cao Ly mountain, also known as Lonely mountain, is more than 10 km from the center of Huc Dong commune and is a camping and picnic spot suitable for runners and families who love to explore and adventure.
Camping to watch the sunset and sunrise on the top of Cao Ly. Photo: Mum Mym
Around September, Cao Ly attracts tourists because of the blooming mua flowers that dye the hillsides purple. This place is also an ideal spot for cloud hunting. The campsite is about 30-40 minutes of hiking from the top, motorbikes and private cars can reach the campsite. From the top of the mountain, visitors have a feeling of comfort and peace when looking at the fields of the Dao and San Chi people winding down the valley.
Calm down with Yen Tu autumn
Yen Tu is a famous destination with majestic mountains and forests and cultural and spiritual values. Stretching across three provinces of Quang Ninh, Bac Giang, Hai Duong, only 50 km from Ha Long, Yen Tu in autumn attracts visitors because of its beautiful weather, mild sunshine, no longer harsh, not crowded and jostling like on festival days.
One Roof Pagoda in Yen Tu. Photo: Minh Cuong
Visitors can leisurely stroll on mossy stone steps, explore ancient pagodas such as Hoa Yen, Hue Quang tower garden, An Ky Sinh stone statue area or admire the statue of Buddha King Tran Nhan Tong cast in solid bronze. Interspersed among the religious structures are green bamboo forests and thousand-year-old pine trees. Standing in the mountains and forests in the afternoon, listening to the sound of prayers for national peace and prosperity echoing from the pagodas also gives visitors a sense of peace and tranquility.
Ba Che River Tourism
Ba Che River is a large river of Quang Ninh province, originating from the primeval forests of Dong Son - Ky Thuong Nature Reserve of Ha Long City. The river is about 80 km long, flowing mainly through the mountainous district of Ba Che. In the autumn and winter, the river is immersed in a misty fog, giving visitors a new feeling. Along the length of the river, there are many rapids and waterfalls with majestic and wild beauty.
The beauty of Ba Che River. Photo: Nguyen Hai Duy
Walking along the river, visitors will feel the peaceful beauty of the villages located at the foot of the mountains, the waterfalls with wild beauty such as Khe Lanh and Khe Lung. The culture of ethnic minorities with many festivals, cultural and spiritual works are also attractions when visiting Ba Che.
In addition, Quang Ninh province also has many other unique tourism products waiting for VnExpress Marathon Amazing Ha Long runners to discover such as resorting at Da Dung island, visiting Co To, beach tourism in Binh Minh village, Hai Lang commune, community tourism in Tien Yen district,...
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