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Ha Noi	Ba Be National Park	Cham Holysee of Myson	Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
Ha Long Bay	Ninh Binh	Quy Nhon	Tay Ninh
Hai Phong - Do Son	The Huong Pagoda	Nha Trang	The Cu Chi tunnels
Cao Bang & Lang Son	Hue	Ninh Thuan	The Mekong delta
Sapa	Da Nang	Mui Ne Beach	The Central Highlands
Dien Bien Phu	Hoi An

CAO BANG & LANG SON

Cao Bang

Cao Bang province is a country of many Vietnamese ethnic groups who live on forestry and farming. Many of them still live on the highest mountains and make terraced rice fields.

It shares 314 km of border with China. The weather here is cool all year round. In winter, snow covers some mountain peaks sometimes. An Giac waterfall in Trung Khanh is magnificent at the height of 30 meters. Many wild orchids grow in this region. Open markets are good places for many horses with the owners in colorful costumes.

Lang Son

This is the frontier town to China. Local people live on exchanging trade at the border. Many open markets for local people, mainly the Vietnamese ethnic groups Tay, Nung, Hmong, Dao are interested. Forest products like bear hides, forest leaves used as medicine, honey, stuffed reindeers are common. Here, local food generally consists of forest products and trees of deep and strong fragrance.

Tam Thanh Caves

These three grottoes in Lang Son were formed inside the limestone mountain. The most interesting cave is the Third Thanh with the shape of a lady waiting on the mountain.

Legends said that a lady and her child were waiting for her husband, a combatant who left home for the war. She kept waiting for him, but there was no news from him. She herself and her child became stone. They stand waiting forever.

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