The entrance road of Mai Waterfall is small, paved with gravel. Because it has just opened for a short time, visitors will have chance to ride their motorbikes with the excitement from feeling mystery of crossing jungle to discover Mai Waterfall.

After three hours riding motorbike from Sai Gon, reaching Dau Day intersection then turning left to Highway 20, going about 10 kilometers far from La Nga bridge, following the small road across the forest 20 kilometers further, people will see Mai Waterfall which is belongs to Dinh Quan district, Dong Nai province.

The entrance road of Mai Waterfall is small, paved with gravel. Because it has just opened for a short time, visitors will have chance to ride their motorbikes with the excitement from feeling mystery of crossing jungle to discover Mai Waterfall.

The sudden bends likes huge elbows continuously appearing into view, this makes the riders frequently be in passive situation.

The air in Mai Waterfall area is very pure, cool with vast forest having varieties of specious plants that brings to visitors plentiful vitality.

Mai Waterfall includes many big rocks. The rock surfaces are flat like granite table, suitable for the visitors to freely play, chat and slowly enjoy foods, drinks.

Under the forest canopy, below the rock surfaces, behind the strongly flowing waterfall, there are hanging bridges, rope bridges adventurously swaying.

Actually, when building the hanging bridges, people planed to choose the part where water flew the most drastically in order to create the adventure, interest for visitors.

When walking on the bridge, despite of securely holding the fence, if people just focus their eyes on the waterfall which is strongly flowing, they will definitely shocked blinded and suffer from the worry of “freely dropping” into the waterfall.

So come to Mai Waterfall, visitors need to be calm and a little brave to try the adventurous feeling of walking on the hanging bridges, rope bridges.

In spring, the whole landscape of Mai Waterfall seems to be covered by a brilliantly yellow velvet coat of five-or-six-petal apricot blossoms which are big, strangely brightly yellow.

Travel to Mai Waterfall, tourists can not only contemplate the wonderful, mysterious scenery of waterfall and forest but also soak their feet in hot spring in Mai Waterfall eco-tourism zone.

This is a natural hot spring which is 7 hectares in width, surrounded by all year green vegetation. 

Mai Waterfall will be an ideal destination for visitors during the tour from Ho Chi Minh City to Da Lat, or the tours to La Nga, Cat Tien or Madagui…

Visitors can try boating in the lake, feeling fresh air of nature and wind, swimming in the lake or picnicking in the forest located beside the lake, listening various sounds of birds here.

Driving10 km from the town of Dong Xoai (capital of Binh Phuoc Province), there is a large and romantic lake. At the lakeside, there have been tourism spots constructed for visitors, including fantastic floating restaurants.

Tourists in Vietnam travel can try boating in the lake, feeling fresh air of nature and wind, swimming in the lake or picnicking in the forest located beside the lake, listening various sounds of birds here. On holidays, numerous tourists from Ho Chi Minh City and other nearby provinces flock to Suoi Lam to take a rest.

Ba Ra Mountain is located in the Phuoc Long District, 180km from Ho Chi Minh City. Ba Ra is a place whose name is closely connected to the heroic resistance of the people of Phuoc Long. There is a monument commemorating the fighters who sacrificed their lives to defend the region.

Ba Ra Mountain

 At the foot of the mountain, near the town of Thac Mo, are the remains of Ba Ra Prison, where many Vietnamese revolutionary fighters were detained by the French.

Paying a visit to Ba Ra Mountain in Binh Phuoc province, tourists in Vietnam travel will take chance to visit many other interesting sites around Ba Ra.

Pham Thi Hong Phuong is the owner of the Full Moon Resort and Pascal is an avid water sports enthusiast as well as a professional in hotel management. He has worked for resorts belonging to Novotel and Victoria Corporations in Vietnam. His love for Vietnam cemented their love.

They decided to establish Jibe’s Beach Club, a sea sports club in the vicinity of the Full Moon Resort, and invested in building material facilities and expanding different forms of marketing, service and trade. Since 2002 their Club has become a centre for sea sports including surfboarding, boarding, wind and kite surfing, kayaking and many more water related activities.

Pascal and his wife have retained services of professional sea sport instructors from the US, Australia, France and Canada to Vietnam travel , whose contagious enthusiasm gets even the most novice water sportsperson controlling a surfboard or other piece of equipment in a few short hours.

Pham Thi Hong Phuong and her husband, 
Pascal Lefebre .

Pascal is the manager and sole distributor for Starboard Group sea sport products and has invited many world-ranking professional athletes to Mui Ne to compete and perform. He has acquired the sponsorship from some great brand names for the annual windsurf competition entitled Vietnam Windsurf Fun Cup which has been acknowledged in the system of tournaments under the Asian Windsurf Tour (AWT) and Professional Windsurf Association (PWA).  

Jibe’s Beach Club has attracted a large number of sport enthusiasts of different nationalities to participate in surfing. Many tourism and sea sports magazines in developed countries have featured the Club as a new attractive address on a tropical bay to visitors.

The small and young island rising in the middle of the sea, located in Tuy Phong District, Binh Thuan province, about 9 km away from the seashore, tourists can spend about 40 minutes to get Cu Lao Cau island by boat. This island stays about 119km away from Phan Thiet City to the Northeast. 

Binh Thuan Province is rich in human and natural potentialities that are good advantages for developing tourism and services. The province has the coastal line of nearly 200km with many beautiful beaches such as Mui Ne, Ca Na, Cu Lao Cau, etc.

Cu Lao Cau island is characterised by rocky outcrops, with sandy beaches on the north and south sides. With the highest point on the island is 27m, the island covers a long distance of over 1.500m with the widest area of nearly 700m and the highest one of 7m above sea level. Surrounded by tens of thousands of cliff blocks of different colors and shapes. It is really interesting when having a condition to observe the whole island carefully.  The water is always clean and blue year-round, and when the tide goes down, on the seashore we can see numerous beautiful shells and corals pleasing the tourists’eyes.

There are many kinds of sea creatures living around this island. It would be very amazing if travelers bring a fishing rod and some preys to fish. On the island, there is a fresh water well, which is called a Fairy Well from an old book. Although the water amount is small, the well is the sort of permanent leaking water.

Fringing coral reefs can be found around the island and platform reefs on submerged banks. The reefs are pristine, with an average cover of 43%. This site supports the highest diversity of hermatypic corals known in Vietnam. There are over 65 genera of coral known here, including Acropora, Goniopora, Montipora,betc. Sea currents from the north and south converge near Hon Cau-Vinh Hao, with strong upwelling. The area has high productivity, with 175 phytoplankton species, 163 seaweed species, 147 coral species, 80 mollusc species, 26 echinoderm species and 211 fish species so far recorded here.

Ceramic villages in Binh Duong Province are located in Hung Dinh, Thuan Giao, Binh Hoa communes in Thuan An District and Thu Dau Mot Town. At present, ceramic industry in Binh Duong Province has strong development and reachs high level from manufacture of household porcelain to industrial porcelain products.

Binh Duong porcelain products has been well-known all over the world together with Bat Trang, Trang An, Bien Hoa ceramic villages, etc. Beside hundreds of ceramic workshops with traditional handicraft production method, Binh Duong has a manufacturer of high-grade porcelain products by using modern technology, machine and production line. It's Minh Long 1 Co., Ltd 

Minh Long 1 was set up in 1970 by Ly Ngoc Minh, a craftsman devoted his time to porcelain products. He is the third generation in a family with tradition making art porcelain. Studying expriences and ceramic technologies of predecessors together with researching incessantly the most advanced technologies, he has made high quality porcelains. All his exertions have created Minh Long 1 trademark. 

Salient feature of Minh Long 1 art porcelain products is colouring technology at temperature of 1,250oC. It's presumed to be the first success in the world because many famous ceramic manufacturers all over the world usually colour at temperature of 850oC. This technology helps astisans' line of drawing undamaged, products with shininess. In addition images sunk into enamel create 3-D space. This is one of the technologies which are hard to apply because when drawing at high temperature, enamel will be melted, colour structure will be changed, line of drawing will be moved. 

Minh Long 1 porcelain products are not only beautiful but also safe for consumer's health. They really attract many international tourists from Japan, United States, Europe., etc.

If you have chance to visit Binh Duong in Vietnam travel, you should travel to Binh Duong ceramic villages where you can enjoy beautiful and high quality porcelain or buy some products as the gifts to your relatives.

Hoi Khanh Pagoda is located in Phu Cuong Ward, Thu Dau Mot Town, Binh Duong Province. The pagoda was built by Dai Ngan Thien Su (an honorific title for a Buddhist monk) in 1741. In 1860, the pagoda was destroyed by French colonists and in 1868 Chanh Dac, superior Buddhist monk rebuilt the pagoda near old ground of former pagoda. 

The pagoda is located on large, flat ground on a hill with all airy side. There is high fence in front of the pagoda with two main gates. Eight towers are located in the north and in front of the main central chamber, in which remains of 8 superior Buddhist monks are stored. Central chamber (for person in charge at a sacrifice) has 3 main compartments and 2 lean-tos with roof covered by pipe tiles. In the center is placed a statue of Buddha with 2m height and 100 statues of Buddha with medium sizes. 

There is an auditorium with 5 compartments and 2 large eaves is located near the central chamber and roofed by double tiles. Many parallel sentences and letters drawn from Buddhist prayer books decorate the auditorium. All of these are engraved in precious wood varnished by gold or in crust with nacre. Cabinets containing prayer books, shelves for statues of Buddha are made of precious wood of shiny black color with beautiful designs. Especially, there are placed 18 statues of Arhant. Each statue has its own beauty, which is shown by typically countenance. In some statues, there are bold engravings with hollowed cheeks, mouths that make lively and artistic wrinkles.

If you are in Vietnam travel, once time pay a visit to Hoi Khanh pagoda, you will enjoy distinctive beauty of each statue placed in the pagoda and also enjoy the pagoda’s typical architecture.

Co Thach Temple fits entirely among grottos in a majestic rock mountain which is 64m higher than the sea level. From the far, the temple appearing and disappearing in sky background looks like fairy landscape. Visitors can follow 1A national highway going about 10km further from Lien Huong town (Tuy Phong) to reach the temple. It was recognized as national heritage, attraction in 1993.

Co Thach Temple area is an architectural population including hermitage, temple, and cave built scattered, continuously, covering 4 ha land on the rock mountain. The main temple interferes big rocks which are impressively vertically straight, imposing. Next to the main temple, there are meditation house, hall, ancestor house, bell floor, vacancies, temple where the incense smoke always flies around. 

Hang Temple area is established from huge rocks which have strange shapes, set on and overlap each other, creating mysterious grottos. Each cave worships a Buddha, or a Bodhisattva, or a bonze. In the cave worshipping the Co Thach Temple establisher bonze Bao Tang, there are statues of bonzes and many ancestral tablets of other bonzes that had contribution to the temple establishment. 

If come to Co Thach Temple in the full moon day or big ceremonies of Buddhism, guests will have a chance to take part in crowded, bustling air with thousands of people who come to join in festival of Hang Temple with sincere faces wishing their dreams, prays will come true! In those days, the temple provides free meals with many special, delicious vegetarian dishes for travelers.

Along two sides of the road to the temple, there are many stalls selling memorial gifts, jewelries made from coral, sea snails and Co Thach stones like mortar and pestle, teapot, flower vases, bracelets, Buddha statues, strings… Local fruits contain dragon fruit, banana, green grape, pineapple, mango…There are also many stall serving vegetarian steamed rice, foods, drinks, sweet porridges for the visitors. 

The road to Hang Temple is clear but winding, mazy following the rock steps, risers; along the road, there are many pictures, statue describing the life of Buddha and the bodhisattvas. On the top of the small rock mountain near the coast, there stands majestic Buddhist bodhisattva Avalokitesvara ( Phat Quan The Am Bo Tat) statue facing the sea.

Standing on the top of the rock mountain, people can have an overview of the immense sea area with thousands of big and small rocks which cumbersomely overlap each other, creating various shapes. Due to the domination of rain and wind, Co Thach rock mountain has many wild and mysterious grottos. After visiting the scenery of the temple, tourists can move to Ca Duoc field to contemplate millions of stones with seven colors: black, white, yellow, grey, brown, pink and dark violet. The rock field longs more than 1km in the bottom of Co Thach mountain.

The landscape around Hang Temple is wildly, majestically beautiful. Many pretty, small houses are built for the visitors’ accommodation.  

Lac Canh Dai Nam Van Hien which is located in Hiep An Ward, Thu Dau Mot Town, Binh Duong Province.

The salient feature of Lac Canh Dai Nam Van Hien Tourist Site is 61ha spirit area. Of which, the worship area surrounded by two giant 270m-long dragons is special place for Vietnam's cultural, historical significances and quintessence through 4,000 years of history.

Kim Dien Sanctuary is located in the centre of 5,000m2 Dai Nam Temple in the worship area. The Sakyamuni Buddha, King Hung and King Tran Nhan Tong are worshiped at main altar of the sanctuary while Tran Hung Dao, Au Co Mother, Bach Gia Tram Ho (a board written 1039 families of Vietnam's ethnic groups) at the right altar and President Ho Chi Minh, Great Buddha, Tutelary God - Fortune God - Soil God at the left altar. All statues in the Kim Dien and 2 statues of Quang Trung and Ly Thuong Kiet outside the sanctuary are inlaid by gold. 

The Kim Dien is built in shape of square and circle. The circle on the top of sanctuary is drawn 108 cranes with signification: 54 cranes represent 54 Vietnamese ethnic groups in the world of the living, 54 other cranes represent 54 Vietnamese ethnic groups in the world of the dead. The square manifested by 4 walls of the sanctuary includes 28 set of 500-kg doors. 28 pictures carved in these doors describe great landmarks of national history, from Hai Ba Trung's insurrection to glorious victory in spring of 1975. There are 2 candles named Dai Hoang Dang in the sanctuary. Each candle is 2.7m in height, 90cm in diameter and can burn in many years. 

Curving round Kim Dien is Bao Giang River with length of 720m. Walking down the river, tourists will view a part of Vietnamese people's lives reappeared through terraced fields, melon trellises, and fish flock swimming in limpid small spring... They all arouse peaceful and simple lives of Vietnamese villages.  

Bao Son Mountain Range behind Dai Nam Temple includes 5 mounts: Metal - Wood -Water - Fire - Earth, of which the central mount is 65.8m high.  The temple worshipping Bach Ho (White Tiger) God is at the west while the temples worshipping Mountain God and Farming God are at the east of Bao Son Mountain Range. Inside of the mountain range, Gods and Buddhas are worshiped in the west and Vietnamese heroes are worshiped in the east. This is also residence of thousands of birds representing a good land.

Rising in the central mount, the 9-storey Bao Thap (Precious Tower) is place to worship, show deep gratitude of young generation to the ancestors. 

* The 1st storey: worshipping souls of revolutionary martyrs and the deads in accident. 

* The 2nd storey: worshipping the unknown martyrs

* The 3rd storey: worshipping the late President Ho Chi Minh

* The 4th storey: worshipping Tran Hung Dao

* The 5th storey: worshipping the heroic women: Trung Trac - Trung Nhi, Trieu Thi Trinh, Bui Thi Xuan and Nguyen Thi Dinh

* The 6th storey: worshipping people honoured as God because of their credit for the country's progress

* The 7th storey: worshipping 18 kings Hung

* The 8th storey: worshipping the Buddha Council, 4-Mother Council, Country Council from founding the country to today.

* The 9th storey: worshipping the Motherland

One of the other attractive places of Lac Canh Dai Nam Van Hien Tourist Site is zoo with area of 12.5ha. This is the first zoo in Vietnam with over 100 species of mammals, birds, reptiles and ornamental fishes that live together in a diversified ecologic environment. Tourists in Vietnam travel will have opportunity to see animals fed in natural environment, especial rare animals appeared in the first time in Vietnam such as: white lion, white tiger, prong horn antelope, South America squirrel monkey... In addition, reaching night zoo (the first zoo type in Vietnam), tourists can observe the life, habit, hunt of wild animals in night by moon lamp system. 

Modern entertainment area can meet demands of tourists with over 40 games of adventure, thrill, relaxation and discovery. Most of them appear in the first time in Vietnam. Especially with area of 21.6ha, Dai Nam artificial sea which includes 2 areas: fresh water sea and salt water sea is an ideal relaxation site for tourists. The salt water in Dai Nam Sea mixed from sea salt of Vinh Hao- Tuy Phong - Binh Thuan region and minerals with suitable salinity is good for health. The wave created by wind with 9 types is very unique. The water games for children, sport court for adults and sea-foods will bring tourists in Vietnam travel comfortable relaxation time.

There is also a hotel system with the specific characteristics combined between the architecture of Co Loa Citadel and Hue royal palaces in Lac Canh Dai Nam Van Hien. In addition, Dai Nam shopping area which has area of 8,000m2 with multiform items will meet demands of tourists. 

Lac Canh Dai Nam Van Hien is holding many national records for the largest temple, the longest hotel, the longest artificial mountain and river, the largest artificial sea, the largest square, the zoo having the rarest animals. This is a social welfare work with educational, cultural, historical significations.