Weekend at Tay Thien - Tam Dao (Tây Thiên - Tam Đảo)
For those who live in Ha Noi and its neighborhoods
with entertainments as picnic-going, mountain-climbing, relaxation by
yourself at a very peaceful place with charming landscapes and fresh
air. All these entertainments are met at weekends in Vinh Phuc:
Visiting Tay Thien (Tây Thiên), tourists may enjoy their admiration of
blue sky with clouds flying and amusements at charmingly comfortable
resorts in Tam Dao community of resorts.
With
2-day tour, whole morning and half of afternoon of your first day
should be spent on climbing to Tay Thien. Do not forget to be full for
breakfast to get enough energy for pretty long promenade up to peak of
the mountain admiring its waterfall from that height. It may take a lot
of time for a tour discovering all about Tay Thien with visits to Dong
Co (Đồng Cỏ) pagoda, Thong (Thống) temple, Ca (Cả) temple, Giai oan
(vindication) brook. For adventurous tourists, path alongside the
stream to those temples should much preferred. However, there exists a
safer and easier path to those temples with mountainside stairs. Enough
foods and drinks should be brought along since climbing to that high
mountain with long promenade definitely gets you exhausted.
On
your way down the mountain late afternoon, tourist should drop by Zen
monastery of Tay Thien that has just been put into official operation.
10kms from that place is Tam Dao. Tourist may stay at either lodges or
indulge themselves in luxuriously romantic resorts. Belvedere is much
preferred by tourists because of its comfortableness and newness.
Dinner at Tam Dao always serves its speciality - chayote coming in
various preparations. Chayote stalks are much green and sweet. A
romantic night will surely get you balanced after a lot of hard
activities in Tay Thien.
Tourists,
next morning, may be in white clouds and admire dawn with glistening
sunlights shined onto 3 highest mounts here including Ban Thach, Thien
Nhi, and Phu Nghia if getting up early. In the morning, you get chances
to discover many interesting things on Thien Nhi after climbing through
1400 stairs to reach the peak, witnessing with your own eyes broadcast
tower of over 100m, getting a panorama of Vinh Phuc. Ba Vi - Ha Noi
will also turn up in your vision there. You will feel like your soul
flying in clouds and tottering with a bamboo bridge spanning across Bac
stream. Prior to being back in the afternoon, tourist may drop in Ba
chu thuong ngan temple, buy specialities of Tam Dao - chayote, then
back to your home and work.