Coming to An Nhon district of Binh Dinh Province, tourists will have a chance to visit one of well known landscape, Nui Mot Lake.
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The Do waterfall |
The lake was previously located at a valley surounded by An Truong mountain ranges. After becoming an irrigation lake, it is more beautiful and become an attractive eco-tourism site.
Go along the national highway 19 to An Truong hamlet, An Nhon district’s Nhon Tan commune, turning left as road sign guides to another cemented road, keeping on going straight eight more kilometers to reach the tourist destination of Nui Mot Lake.
Climbing upward to a 700-metre long bank dyke, the scorching summer heat seems to vanish as viewable picturesque scenery appears with the clear blue lake, the imposing luxuriant jungles and the range of endlessly stretching mountains.
Even at the boat wharf, the scenery looks beautiful with secular trees and big strange-shaped stones. We go along a mountainous track a few hundred meters away from the place of setting up An Truong Revolution Memorial Stele to reach Ong Dai Cave, where many Vietnamese soldiers used to shelter and hide their war provisions in wartime. The cave is rather spacious and spectacular. I touch its solid stone wall while thinking of the history.
Going on board of a pretty tourist boat, we begin a boat trip to explore the Nui Mot Lake. We all experience a wonderful moment of tranquility and peace, of comfortable relaxation while letting the boat drift on the vast lake. The surrounding scenery looks so picturesque.
After spending 45 minutes touring around the lake, we reach Do waterfall which looks like a white silk ribbon left by some fairy. Making our way under shade of secular trees upward the waterfall, we enjoy wonderful sounds of nature: murmur of springs, warble of birds, sough of wind, rustle of leaves.
The waterfall appears after a 15-minute hike and climb. Plunging from the height of approximately 30-40 meters, the cascade creates countless white foam before mixing with gently flowing down streams to the lake below. Following the trail, we keep on climbing to top of the waterfall.
Standing on the top, we can now see a gorgeous panorama with the powerful waterfall, the imposing forest and mountains, the lower graceful Nui Mot Lake.
Around the waterfall, there are pieces of even and flat terrain or blocks smooth and flat rocks under shady secular trees, ideal places to rest while enjoying specialties like stewed marble gobies, fried carps, grilled chopper clown knife fish, sour soup with grass carp together with local impetuous rice wine of Bau Da.
All grief and sorrow of daily life seems to go with the fall. Finishing the lunch, some of us take dreamy rest under the shady trees while others swim freely at the cool lake. The tourists may bring fishing rods to catch fish there, feeling satisfaction from being in the open air.
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