Bac Kan is one of the provinces with many other tourist destinations but very few tourists know about it. Stopping here, visitors will be able to explore the largest freshwater lake in Vietnam as well as being in the top 20 largest lakes in our country. The journey to this place will give you many wonderful experiences. If you do not know how your journey begins and what tourist destinations are here, follow the article on Bac Kan tourist destinations of smiletravel to know the details!
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10 Most famous and beautiful tourist destinations in Bac Kan 2025
1. Ba Be Lake – the largest freshwater lake in Vietnam
When mentioning Bac Kan, tourists cannot help but mention Ba Be Lake, which is known as one of the largest lakes in our country. Ba Be Lake is located in Ba Be National Park and is over 150m above sea level and is 70km from Bac Kan city. This is one of the extremely unique natural lakes for tourists on their trip.
The lake was formed and geologically deformed millions of years ago during the tectonic process of the earth. There are many caves and small lakes that form Ba Be Lake. The lake is up to 8 km long with a water surface area of up to 500 hectares and an average depth of 20 m. On the lake, there are many different small islands.
Along with that, there are also many layers of flora and fauna living and residing here.
Due to its geological structure, Ba Be Lake area has many unique features compared to other freshwater lakes with karst terrain in the world. Coming here, visitors can choose to sit on a cruise and admire the bottom of Ba Be Lake. Coming here, you will see the image of the clear blue lake and feel the cool air from nature.
Not only that, your travel journey to this place, you can sit on a boat to see the scenery of Ba Be Lake. Giving you extremely attractive experiences on your travel journey, the price of a boat tour in the Ba Be Lake area is extremely cheap, not too expensive, only 100,000 VND/person, you can sit and visit as well as see the whole image of this place.
2. Ba Be National Park – Bac Kan tourist destination
Ba Be National Park has an area of up to 10,000 hectares with an extremely diverse geological structure with many highland mountain ranges along with deep caves and primeval forests with many layers of extremely rich vegetation that are visited by many tourists when coming here.
This will be one of the places that young people who love culture as well as love natural beauty will choose to set foot here, you will learn more about many types of flora and fauna here. Because most of the flora and fauna here are extremely rare, it seems that stopping here will give you more knowledge as well as more about many interesting and attractive things when you stop here
3. Ao Tien
Ao Tien is one of the extremely famous scenic spots for tourists when stopping in Bac Kan, this pond is located right at the corner of Ba Be Lake. Ao Tien is an extremely pretty small lake nestled in the middle of the limestone mountain pan area.
If you go from the lake area, you only need to move a little further and you can see this pond. Ao Tien is nourished by the underground water system, so the water here always has a cool, sweet blue color from the limestone mountain system area.
Ao Tien is home to local fish and other flora and fauna, and local fishermen occasionally stop here to fish, ensuring that the area is always peaceful and completely isolated from the outside world.
Just like Ba Be Lake area, Ao Tien always attracts tourists with extremely impressive images from nature, images with many unique and interesting features along with the fresh air from nature that gives you the feeling of wanting to stop here forever and not wanting to leave.
4. Pac Ngoi Village
This is a fairly new tourist destination for tourists when stopping at Pac Ngoi Village. Coming here, visitors can admire the entire natural landscape of this place along with experiencing extremely unique cultural features.
Pac Ngoi village is home to the Tay people in Bac Kan area, where there are about 80 households. Pac Ngoi village tourism has recently begun to attract many tourists to this tourist destination, with ancient stilt houses bearing the typical characteristics of the Tay people and a very unique design. The people in the village have lived on traditional wet rice cultivation, along with corn grown on the banks and fishing in the Ba Be Lake area.
Coming to Pac Ngoi village area, you have the opportunity to enjoy many delicious dishes for tourists such as bamboo rice, grilled fish, sour meat, … along with that, stopping here, you can also experience sleeping in a stilt house as well as visiting Ba Be lake by dugout canoe.
Experiencing fishing on rivers and lakes with local people is also one of the great experiences for you on your journey to this place. You will enjoy traditional local dishes, dishes imbued with the culture of the nation.
Stopping at Pac Ngoi village will give you the opportunity to experience many new and extremely attractive things from nature to the local people here. Stopping here promises to give you the most interesting and unique things.
5. Hua Ma Cave
A place located in the Ba Be National Park, Hua Ma Cave remains quiet every year on the Leng River in the Pac Ngoi village area. This cave is located halfway up the mountain and is located in the Leo Pen area, and the surrounding area is covered with lush green trees.
In the legend of the local people, the old Leo Pen area was once the territory of demons. Later, a general of the royal court patrolled this area and heard the joy of the ghosts of the people fighting with the royal court against the enemy. The army immediately set up camp right on the banks of the Leng River and slaughtered horses to take the horse’s head as an offering to heaven and earth. After the ceremony, the howling sounds disappeared and over the years, extremely magical stalactites grew from which people called it Len Pen Cave or Hua Ma Cave or in the local language, the Horse Head Cave.
The lonely mountain foot area is located at an altitude of about 350 m above sea level. The road from the foot of the mountain to the cave is built into different steps so that tourists can move more easily.
The cave contains many impressive stalactites for tourists when stopping here. The stalactites with many different shapes have been formed many years ago. Especially coming here in the summer, visitors will feel the coolness of nature as well as feel the cold wind from the caves, giving you a wonderful experience when you come here.
6. Ban Vang Silver Waterfall
This is also one of the landmarks in Ba Be National Park. From Khau Vang Pass, Silver Waterfall looks like a white silk strip. This is also one of the ideal stops for tourists coming here on hot summer days.
The waterfall is up to 40 m high with vertical cliffs hidden in the green of the mountains and forests. Below the waterfall are clear pools of water and large rocks so you can sit here and enjoy the peaceful space here.
The extremely gentle flow of water rolling from the high area, hitting the rocks below the foot of the mountain, creating white foam, giving you an extremely wonderful and exciting feeling. It seems that coming here helps you forget all your worries as well as all the hardships of life, giving you a completely different experience when coming here.
Looking at the image of Silver Waterfall, you seem to enter a vast natural space even though you have passed the vast spaces of the national park, helping you stop at the mountain, stopping here, you seem to forget all the hardships and only feel the wild beauty of this place.
Standing below the waterfall area looking up you will see images like colorful paintings, pure white color along with that stopping here gives you many extremely interesting impressions. Coming to Silver waterfall you will enjoy the majestic and peaceful and wild of the mountains and forests along with the pure fresh air of the wild flowers all bring you unforgettable moments.
7. Widow Island
Widow Island is one of the beautiful small islands located in the Ba Be Lake area. This island is made up of large and small rocks stacked on top of each other. The trees on the island are green all year round, hanging down to hug the rocks. From a distance, the island looks like a Southern island hanging down to the lake.
Legend has it that the island was once home to a kind-hearted widow and her daughter who used the rice husks from the fairy’s rice field to create two dugout canoes to rescue the people.
Widow Island is also one of the attractive tourist destinations for visitors. The green gem reflects shimmeringly in the middle of the lake. This is one of the ideal places for visitors to Ba Be. Stopping here, visitors will have the opportunity to take souvenir photos of their trip in Ba Be National Park.
Coming to Ba Goa Island, visitors can choose to sit on boats around the lake area to admire the image of this place, giving you many wonderful experiences, especially when the sunset is gradually falling, the last rays of sunlight begin to appear in the sky, giving you wonderful scenes at the end of the day. The journey to this place promises to give you many wonderful and unique experiences.
8. Nang Tien Cave
Nang Tien Cave is located in Luong Ha commune, about 5 km east of Yen Lac town. This cave was formed hundreds of millions of years ago due to the erosion and sedimentation of limestone mountains, creating many different beautiful terraced fields.
In particular, we must mention that in the cave there are countless large stone arches inside which are large stone slabs of different sizes, along with which visitors can see images that look like large beds surrounded by stalactites hanging down very softly like sparkling bedrooms. Legend has it that this place was once a place where fairies used to visit to rest in this cave, that’s why this place is called Fairy Cave. Associated with the people here.
9. Deo Gio
Deo Gio is a road located on the road connecting Cao Bang province and Bac Kan province. The pass is located on National Highway 3. This is also one of the check-in locations that many tourists love, especially young people who want to stop here and want to bring you many experiences and fun when stopping here.
This is a pass covered in fog all year round, so if you choose to stop and rest here, you should prepare yourself mentally and with a very steady hand to reach this area!
Stop at the Wind Pass area, you can choose to buy for yourself many types of forest products of Bac Kan land, you can choose to buy for yourself items to bring back for your family, friends and relatives. On your travel journey!
10. Tat Ma Waterfall
When coming to Ba Be Lake, tourists cannot miss the tourist destination of Tat Ma Waterfall, one of the natural waterfalls that Mother Nature has bestowed upon this place. The waterfalls with extremely majestic streams of water have attracted tourists when stopping here.
Coming here, you will see the lake surface has a deep blue color like a jade green color along with the water flowing like white silk strips across the hillsides, giving you a wonderful majestic scene for you when you come here.
Especially on rainy days, you can choose to come here to watch the rapid streams of water pouring down from above, making you see a majestic space of nature.
The space of Tat Ma waterfall is extremely fresh, along with the grass growing around this area, giving you a completely new feeling when coming to Bac Kan.
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