In the project to develop Pu Luong tourist area, Thanh Hoa province plans to build a cable car route to the top of Pu Luong to diversify tourism products and attract tourists.
Thanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee has just approved the project to develop eco-tourism, resorts and entertainment in the special-use forest of Pu Luong Nature Reserve until 2030, with a vision to 2045.
A corner of a village in Pu Luong Tourist Area. Photo: Le Hoang
The project aims to preserve and promote the value of natural landscapes, effectively exploit the potential and advantages of biodiversity, scenic spots, beliefs associated with the cultural identity of ethnic groups, attract investment in leasing forest environments, and develop and diversify tourism types and products. The project also aims to increase income, improve the material and spiritual life of local people associated with building the Pu Luong eco-tourism brand.
The local government hopes to turn Pu Luong Nature Reserve into one of Thanh Hoa's eco-tourism centers, with professionalism and modern, synchronous technical facilities.
The project is expected to be implemented on an area of nearly 17,000 hectares within the Pu Luong Nature Reserve and connect with buffer zone communes in Ba Thuoc and Quan Hoa districts. The estimated cost is about 183 billion VND.
Thanh Hoa province has set a requirement that in the early stages, it will attract at least two major investors to cooperate, link up and rent forest environments to develop tourism in the special-use forest of Pu Luong Nature Reserve. The administrative area in Pa Ban village, Thanh Son commune will be completed. Tourist attractions and resorts such as Canh Chan waterfall, Kho Muong cave, Pu Luong peak, and Gia stream will be expanded, connecting other tourist attractions to form 9 intra-regional tourist routes, 7 inter-regional routes and 5 marathon routes through the forest.
Notably, the project will have an attractive policy to call for investors to design and build a cable car system connecting the administrative center to Pu Luong peak with Cao Son tourist area, located at an altitude of nearly 2,000 m in the core area of Pu Luong Nature Reserve. Cao Son is considered a paradise, a miniature Sa Pa or Tam Dao in Thanh Hoa because of its wild and peaceful beauty, with three Thai villages: Son, Ba, and Muoi.
Local authorities require that projects serving ecotourism, resorts, and entertainment must comply with the principles of friendliness, harmony with nature, and not destroy the environmental landscape. Specifically, in the strictly protected subdivision, only trails, overhead cable lines, underground cable lines, landscape observation stations, shelters, and signs for forest protection combined with ecotourism are allowed to be established.
In the ecological restoration zone, only suitable roads can be established, but must not exceed the scale of a grade 4 mountain road.
The project also stipulates that the maximum height of resort buildings must not exceed 12 m, must not lose the state's ownership of forests and natural resources on the ground and underground, and must only be built on vacant land, grasslands, and land with bushes that cannot self-regenerate, and must not affect national defense and security.
The project's goal is that by 2025, Pu Luong will welcome 16,000 tourists. By 2030, it will welcome about 27,000 tourists, contributing to the target of 370,000 tourists to Ba Thuoc district and about 32,000 tourists to Quan Hoa district, making the proportion of revenue from tourism the main source of revenue, reinvesting in Pu Luong development. By 2045, Pu Luong will welcome about 50,000 tourists to visit and relax.
Pu Luong in the ripe rice season. Photo: Le Hoang
Pu Luong Nature Reserve is located in the northwest of Thanh Hoa province, covering an area of nearly 18,000 hectares, about 160 km from Hanoi. It is mainly inhabited by the Thai and Muong ethnic groups, and has a diverse ecosystem including dense forests, large and small waterfalls, caves and mountains interspersed with peaceful villages and green terraced fields every summer.
The best time to visit Pu Luong is the rice harvest season in May - June or September - October every year, when the terraced fields turn from green to golden yellow. Visitors can visit Pu Luong by motorbike, self-driving car or bus.
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