Ke Go Lake


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Ke Go Lake is in Cam My commune, Cam Xuyen district, Ha Tinh province, 70 km from Vinh city in the south.


Ke Go Reservoir

Ke Go Lake is an artificial lake shaped from Rao Cai river, which is the convergence of hundreds of brooks from Truong Son range. On March 26th 1976, the construction on the lake was officially ground-broken. After 11 months and six days, the construction was completed and put into use. The lake is 29 km long with its bed area of 30 sq.m and water holding capacity of 345 million cu.m. It is 8 m high above and its water level is 37 m. The water from the lake travels on 1,000 km trenches into ten thousands of fields in districts of Thach Ha, Cam Xuyen. 11,811 ha of natural forests and 261 ha of cultivated forests surround the lake. The forests involved in more than 40 families, 300 arbour species and various scare species such as pheasants, black lemurs, elephants, and horn pheasants, especially pheasants with black crest. Weather is cool all year round in Ke Go area. The water is pure and blue. Tourists rowing on boats could observe water flows pouring down the lake from the mountain. At night, the space becomes mysterious because of the wave sound, wind from forests and voice of animals mingled together, etc.


The aforementioned place-names are among the famous tourists sites in Ha Tinh. Nevertheless, it is possible to say that they are the representatives for the local land. Several of them came into existence and became famous hundreds years ago such as Tien Dien, Deo Ngang, Huong Tich pagoda. However, there are also revolutionary relics, artificial works such as commemorated area of Tran Phu, Dong Loc Road Junction, Ke Go Lake and the international border gate economic zone of hanging bridge (Cau Treo), which have been recently became famous. All the traditional and modern, sophisticated and majestic, material and spiritual features, etc. are mutually mingled and interacted then result in enormous potentials in local tourism.

Situated by the National Highway 8A, near the Hanging Bridge-National Border Gate Cau Treo, the name “Nuoc Sot-Kim Son” has been well-known for a long time. “Nuoc Sot”, in local language, means hot water. Studies on Nuoc Sot-Son Kim mineral water have come to conclusions: The quality of the mineral water in Son Kim is stable. It has effects of prevention and cure for some diseases, gynecological diseases, etc. Moreover, it also has the effects of recovery for patients after treatments, sickness and hard working’s refreshments.

Extracted from the depth of 100 m, Nuoc Sot-Kim Son mineral water is very hot.The water contains a variety of mineral ingredients and factors, which are very good for health. Those ingredients help speed up the metabolising progress, wakeup “sleeping” cells and drive away all the tiredness of the day.

Besides, the tourist zone also has various services of restaurant, motels, organsing excrusions, picnics along Truong Son mountains and shopping in our neighbour country Laos.

Source: sotmdlhatinh.gov.vn
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