Ba Be Lake Hồ Ba Bể

Mountain lake with three Tay widenings

Ba Be Lake is the mountain water you cross by morning boat. The circuit can include An Ma, Fairy Pond, Puong, and Dau Dang, and Puong and Dau Dang share one boat. Sleep at Pac Ngoi or Bo Lu so the landing is a walk. The fee, the hours, and the time on the water are Check on arrival.

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Landing boats on the lake, with limestone on both sides

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Get thereFrom the Pac Ngoi landing, or from Buoc Lom. Minutes are Check on arrival.

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The lake

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You take a boat in the morning. The circuit can include the open water, An Ma, Fairy Pond, Puong, and Dau Dang, in the combinations sold at the landing. Puong and Dau Dang share one boat when the circuit is the long one. Two starts are in use: the lake shore, and Buoc Lom on the Nang, about 1 km upstream of Puong. Tay speakers call the widenings Slam Pe: Pe Leng, Pe Lu, and Pe Lam. The water is called one lake running nearly 8 km north–south, with many small inlets, and it is also called three lakes joined.

Morning mist on Ba Be Lake, with wooded islands and forested slopes — Morning mist on the water, with wooded islands and the shore still readable

The measurements do not agree. Elevation is 150 m, about 178 m, and 145 m. Length is 7.5 km, up to 8 km, and longer than 8 km. Width is 0.2–1 km, 500 m, and about 3 km at the widest. Surface is 450 ha, 300–500 ha by season, and about 500 ha. Depth is 17–23 m, 17–29 m, and an average of 20 m. The deepest point is 29 m and about 35 m. The annual level change is 2.8 m, the volume is about 90 million cubic metres, and the lake is dated to about 10,000 years ago.

A dugout cut from one tree is also used. Its size, the seat count on a group boat, and the hours on the water are Check on arrival. The lake’s outline is 22°06'12"–22°08'14" N and 105°09'07"–105°12'22" E, and also 22°14'–22°35' N and 104°17'–105°35' E. Those boxes are not the same outline, and neither is a gate pin.

Getting there and around

The night is at Pac Ngoi, on the Leng where it meets the lake, or at Bo Lu. From Pac Ngoi you walk to the village landing. If the night was not in the village, the cave boat starts at Buoc Lom, about 1 km down the Nang to Puong. Minutes from a gate to the house are Check on arrival.