Top 10 must-visit places when coming to Hai Duong

It is likened to a giant rockery, Glass House is an ideal place to visit for travelers who love adventure, adventure and discovery. Surrounding Kinh Chu Cave are immense rice fields and winding rivers surrounding the foot of the mountain, all of which create a beautiful natural picture, creating a memorable impression for anyone who comes to visit. Glass Host. Therefore, this is also an attractive place to visit in Hai Duong.

Main Glass Cave located on the slopes of limestone mountains called Duong Nham, Bo Da or Xuyen Chau. It is a mountain range located on the bank of Kinh Thay River, gracefully reflecting its shadow into the water. The cave door faces south to catch the cool summer wind. Standing here, visitors can see Cho Troi mountain and Thap But – the two highest peaks of this massive mountain range; see both An Phu peak where Tran Lieu temple and Cao pagoda are located; see fields, villages and far away is the bustling town of Kinh Mon.

But when entering the cave, visitors are surprised by the skillful hand of the creator to create two bell-shaped cave arches, tall and attractive. Deep inside is a stream of clear and cool water. Where the stream flows, no one knows. The dome of the cave was once inhabited by thousands of bats and crows, flapping their wings at dusk and rushing out of the cave to find food. This is also the evacuation place of Hai Phong shipyard during the war against the US to save the country. In the cave, there is a temple to worship Buddha and to worship King Ly Than Tong. A branch of the west revolving door cave, located lower, leads visitors in to the Tam Phu Mausoleum.

The most unique feature in Main Glass Cave is the National Treasure – the system of beer ghost chewing. All the beer here is carved right into the cliff with 54 steles, which is the most number of stele in the caves in Vietnam. There is beer in the low. There’s beer up there. There is another towering beer on the dome of the cave. These epitaphs are still intact because they have not been eroded by the sun and rain. More than 50 of the aforementioned epitaphs date from the XNUMXth century to the XNUMXth century. The authors of the epitaphs are also very diverse: from the King to the Dai Than mandarin; from government officials, district officials to nomads, teachers to local translation positions.

Co Chi Lang Nam Island located in the heart of An Duong lake, in the area of ​​Chi Lang Nam commune, Thanh Mien district, Hai Duong province. This is an eco-tourism site about 30km south of Hai Duong city center in the direction of National Highway 39B. Co Chi Lang Nam Island was discovered in 1994, now developed into an eco-tourism area of ​​31,67ha. According to statistics, there are 16.000 storks and 6000 cranes living here. There are also many rare species of birds in danger of extinction such as gray herons, owls, kingfishers, hooves, owls, etc.

Co Chi Lang Nam Island is a great eco-tourism area, so you can make the trip at any time of the year. However, according to the fun and attractive Co Island travel experience, you should travel to Co Island in the period from September to April next year. Because this is the time when storks and cauldrons everywhere gather here to feed, creating a lively natural space, especially in the early morning and evening, thousands of storks and cauldrons are all here. making a very interesting “communication” sound.

When coming here, visitors not only can see with their own eyes thousands and thousands of storks, cauldrons, with many different rare species, but you can also see the poetic natural scenery of the river here. It’s great, especially in the early morning or evening, when the storks and cauldrons are singing together. When you come here, you will have an extremely interesting and memorable trip to Co Island.

Known as a traditional puppetry village operating for hundreds of years, this is also a fun and interesting place to visit in Hai Duong. Puppet shows here have been present in many major national festivals, festivals and all won high awards. If you have never seen puppetry before or want to learn more about this industry, then the water puppetry village Qinghai It’s a stop you can’t miss.

Art Qinghai water puppet show originated from An Liet village in the Later Le dynasties, learned by An Liet villagers who went to work far away and brought them back to the village to pass on the craft. Before the August Revolution, 8, puppet wards gathered people in the village to have fun during festivals or leisure activities. Peace is restored, water puppetry in Qinghai is strengthened both spiritually and materially. Up to now, with 1945 core members with a love of folk art, they have composed many new and unique scripts. In 32, Thanh Hai Water Puppet Ward won the First Prize at the Hai Duong Provincial Water Puppet Festival and was invited to perform in many places in the country. At the 2001 Hue Festival of Water Puppetry Art Festival, Hong Phong Water Puppet Ward was awarded the Gold Award.

Water puppetry is a general performance art, born and existing in the community of agricultural workers. This is a spiritual dish, a healthy entertainment of the residents of the Red River Delta. Visitors to Hai Duong should once visit and enjoy this unique traditional folk art.

Relic Con Son- Kiep Bac is one of 62 special national monuments of Vietnam. This relic complex belongs to Chi Linh town, Hai Duong province. This is a place associated with the status and careers of national heroes Nguyen Trai, Tran Hung Dao – two outstanding national heroes who have brightened the country, along with many cultural celebrities of the country. ethnic groups: Tran Nguyen Dan, Phap Loa, Huyen Quang,…

The Ancestral House located right behind Con Son Pagoda, worshiping the statues of 3 Truc Lam Tam To (King Tran Nhan Tong, Phap Loa and Huyen Quang), the statue of Quan Tu Tran Nguyen Dan and his wife, the statue of Nguyen Trai and his second wife (Mrs. Thi Lo).

Temple of Nguyen Trai is a key work located in the complex of Con Son – Kiep Bac relic site, located on a 10.000 square meter land area, at the foot of Ngu Nhac mountain, located in Thanh Hu Dong area and near where there was a temple in the past. Tran Thi Thai (mother of Nguyen Trai). On the right side is Con Son stream flowing from North to South, winding from right to left embracing the temple area. The temple has a very unique and traditional architecture, with a large source of funding and virtuous people, artisans and skillful workers, working hard for more than 2500 days to get the work like today. .

Temple of Tran Nguyen Dan was built in 2004, near the upstream of Con Son stream, at the location where more than 600 years ago he built a house to rest and recuperate in old age.

Well of Jade located on the slopes of Ky Lan mountain, at the foot of Dang Minh Bao Thap. Legend has it that on a full moon night in July, Zen master Huyen Quang dreamed of a shining pearl lying on the slopes of Ky Lan Mountain. In the morning, the Zen master and monks and nuns went up the mountainside to examine, when clearing the myrtle bush, bought it, saw a clear well of water, tried it and found the fresh, cool water, people were happy. When he returned to the temple, the Zen master made a thanksgiving ceremony to the gods for giving the temple a precious water source and asked to be deep and embanked. Since then, the well has been called Ngoc well and the monks in the temple often take water from the well to make offerings. There was a time when the well was covered by vegetation. In 1995, the well was re-invested, stone embankment, shore construction, paving the yard to create a common landscape for the tourist area and also for tourists visiting Con Son to have a chance to sip water from the sacred well.

Fairy Table: From Ngoc well, follow a paved road about 600 steps to the top of Ky Lan mountain (200m high). The top of the mountain is a flat land on a fairly large stone slab, which the ancients called Ban Co Tien.

Thach Ban are two wolf-shaped rocks, relatively flat surface, located nearly 100m apart, next to Con Son stream.

Temple of Painting Also known as Quan Lon Tuan Tranh Temple, is an ancient temple in Vietnam. Worshiping the river god who governs the river section at Tranh wharf, Dong Tam commune, Ninh Giang district, Hai Duong province.

Tranh Temple has 3 festival seasons a year. The festival in February (from February 2 to 10), the main festival on the 20th – the birthday of the great mandarin Tuan Tranh, this is the main festival every year. The festival in May (from May 2-14), the great meeting on the 5th – the day of the saint’s birth. Painting Temple Festival has a large scale, attracting tourists from many northern provinces, one of the great associations of Hai Duong, has an unusual attraction, especially for women and girls in cities, so visitors from all over the world come here very often. winter. Not only in festivals, but also on weekdays, many guests come to the ceremony and cannot miss the chau van singing performance.

In folklore, it is still said that “the temple is very sacred, very spiritual, you can get whatever you want”, so the festival opens every year, and many domestic and foreign tourists come to the festival. In addition to the two main festivals, in the 5th lunar month, there is also a day where tourists from all over the world come to the temple, especially the “May Party”. This party in the legend is the day Quan Lon wants to party. In addition, when referring to Quan Lon Tuan Tranh, visitors mention the singing of the Holy Ghost with 5 Holy Ghosts and 36 songs.

In 2009, Tranh Temple was honored to be ranked as a National Historical and Cultural Relic. In order to attract a large number of tourists to visit and worship at Tranh temple, in recent years, Ninh Giang district has always focused on preserving and promoting the cultural heritage values ​​of Tranh temple as well as other cultural heritage sites. festival. Thereby, the traditional beauty of the land of Ninh Giang and Hai Duong province has been promoted to domestic and international tourists.

An Phu relic cluster now belongs to An Sinh commune, Kinh Mon district, Hai Duong province, more than 30km east of Hai Duong city. Many years ago, history books recorded “the mountains of An Phu, Thien Ky, Kinh Chu, … are all beautiful sights worth visiting.” Now the landscape is different from the past, but it is a place with many relics that need to be visited and studied. Visitors to An Phu are not only a visit to historical sites but also a useful sport trip.

Relic sites and caves that are classified include Cao An Phu temple (Cao temple, Tuong Van pagoda, Tran Hung Dao monument…); relics and caves of Pham Menh commune (King Chu cave, Duong Nham pagoda…); relics and caves of Duy Tan commune (Nham Duong pagoda, Nham Duong mountain caves…). An Phu mountain range has a length of 17 km, the highest peak of An Phu is 246 meters high, with many small peaks and passes that have been included in poetry and woven by folk folklore. On the top of the dark green high mountain range emerges like a giant cone – that is the cluster of An Phu relics. The top of the mountain is divided into two small peaks: The southern top has the temple of An Sinh Vuong Tran Lieu (the father of Hung Dao Dai Vuong Tran Quoc Tuan, customarily called Cao Temple, and the epitaph is called An Phu Son Tu).

Between the two mountain ranges is the ancient Tuong Van Pagoda, custom called Cao Pagoda. Next to the pagoda, there is Kinh Thien stone pillar (Spring stone pillar), in front of the temple there is a water well, the water is always full and cool all year round. 2 meters to the east of the pagoda, there is a flat land, around the stone embankment called the fairy chess board. Around the temple and pagoda, there are still some old green bonsai, especially some 100-year-old Dai trees, proving the longevity of the monument.

This is the second special national monument of Hai Duong province.

Production area Chu Dau ancient ceramics located in Chu Dau village, Thai Tan commune, Nam Sach, Hai Duong. Ranked as a national historical relic in 1992. Chu Dau pottery is called religious pottery because the delicate patterns of these products are imbued with the humanistic values ​​of Buddhism and Confucianism.

Two out of dozens of types Chu Dau pottery Impressive, becoming the most famous and popular products with antique connoisseurs are Hoa Lam ceramic vases (also known as garlic bulb vases) and Binh Ti Ba vases. According to Eastern philosophy, the pot of garlic is yang, being heaven, father, and pillar. The mouth of the vase has an upright shape, showing straightforwardness, integrity, and stability. The body of the vase is a great combination between the motif of daisies – a symbol of purity, interspersed with soft flower strings. Binh Ty Ba has the shape of a Pi Ba, symbolizing the sound, earth, mother, the embodiment of a young and graceful Vietnamese woman. These two vases are also known as yin and yang vases, which represent the father’s and mother’s vases, symbolizing the routine of a happy family…

The relic area is up to 4 square meters with various types of pottery production tools such as millet, kiln bag, turntable, pattern printing table and some scraps and fragments, this is a center for producing ceramic wares. Large pottery in our country in the XNUMXth – XNUMXth centuries.

Visitors, especially foreign tourists, can’t help but admire the ingenuity of the artisans, the skillful ceramic hands creating unique shapes with blue flower vases, Pi Ba vases, unique vases, all kinds of jars, worshiping objects, pots, seeds, flowerpots… ingeniously as if collapsing the vast natural world.

Chi Linh Star Golf Club in Sao Do town, Chi Linh district, Hai Duong province. Spread over an area of ​​325 hectares in the heart of a beautiful valley with a natural lake nestled in the surrounding majestic green hills. The golf course is built with 36 holes according to AAA international standards. The green lawns are taken care of, trimmed every day, the small roads bend around the lake edge, the trees, the gentle slopes along the hillside, is a stopover with simple little shops nestled in the canopy of poetic trees. dream.

Chi Linh Star Golf & Country Club is scientifically arranged with discreet bunkers that are considered a challenge worth conquering for professional golfers. The grass used here is the best grass for golf courses – imported from Australia, RainBird’s computer-controlled flexible irrigation system imported from the US, golf course maintenance equipment Toro’s world leader in the US….

The highest point of the golf course is the club house, which is noted for its unique design, the entire door and wall system is built with transparent glass allowing visitors and spectators to admire most of the area. Course area with 28/36 golf holes.

Chi Linh Star Golf CourseDubbed “Vietnam’s most challenging golf course” and professional golfers cannot ignore this exciting competition venue.

Mao Dien Temple of Literature located on National Highway 5, 15km from Hai Duong city. In the North of Vietnam, Mao Dien Temple of Literature is second in size and history, after only Van Mieu Quoc Tu Giam. Temple of Literature is a superficial and majestic architectural work. The house worships Confucius and Mencius. The outer house is the gathering place of scholarly officials. The two sides are two rows of 2-room dances opposite each other. Next are two bell towers built very majestically. In front is a hundred-year-old rice tree silhouetted against a clear blue lake. Surrounded by ornamental plants and fruit trees.

The main row of the Temple of Literature consists of two layers facing the West, with 7 compartments, curved roofs, carved with dragons and phoenixes, close together. House in Confucius worship. The outer house is the place to gather for the worship of the scholarly mandarins and place the altar and the communal incense bowl. On the two sides of the wall hung a list of 637 doctors from Hai Duong town during the Vietnamese election era. The two oldest relics of Mao Dien Temple of Literature located in the outer row are the stone incense burner on the communal altar and the stone altar from the Tay Son period. The crystal stone has a clear sound showing the very high level of the Vietnamese stoneworker in the early 19th century, with a broken ear.

Inside the harem of the Temple of Literature, all nine tablets are worshiped. It is in the middle of worshiping Confucius, the ancestor of Confucianism. In turn, the two sides are Nguyen Trai, Chu Van An, Mac Dinh Chi, Nguyen Binh Khiem, Pham Su Manh, Vu Huu, Tue Tinh, and Nguyen Thi Due. In the arrangement of worship also has many deep meanings. Confucius is the ancestor of the religion, so he is worshiped in the middle, on the left is Chu Van An, an exemplary teacher in the Confucian tradition of our country. The rest are all outstanding children of Hai Duong town. Especially the poinsettia Nguyen Thi Due, the only poinsettia of Vietnam.

Every year in the second lunar month, Hai Duong province opens the Temple of Literature festival. Hai Duong people from all over the world gather to attend the festival, report the public, offer incense in memory of the famous people and sages of the country.

Root forest located next to the pine forest at the southern foot of Con Son mountain, Chi Linh town, Hai Duong province. This is a new tourist destination in Hai Duong that is loved by young people. Root forest She has a poetic beauty like a gentle, pure teenage girl, but has poetic beauty that captivates people’s hearts. The root forest has been around for a long time and has become a familiar symbol of the land of Chi Linh – Hai Duong.

Root forest described in the book “Vietnamese medicinal plants”: the root tree, also known as Thanh Hao tree, refers to the root broom, has many branches, can be up to 2m high, very small branches, double leaves, long conifers. about 1cm, with brown veins. Small white flowers grow alone in the interstitial leaves … In the tree there is yellow essential oil, almost eucalyptus oil. People often use them to make brooms to sweep the house. Leaves are used in jars containing green beans or for clothing to avoid moths or insect bites. People with stomach ache often lie on the hammock, burning the root broom.

Wandering around root forest You will see the beauty of the forest roots mixed with the beauty of the mountains, creating a picture of harmonious colors and attracting viewers’ eyes. This is the ideal romantic space for young couples holding hands and walking in the romantic forest of roots. You will find the feeling of peace, serenity and relaxation when sitting under the shade of a pine tree and immersing yourself in the space of the countryside.