Dien Bien Phu campaign headquarters is hidden in the old forest at the foot of Pu Don mountain in Muong Phang commune, nearly 40 km from Dien Bien Phu city. This is where General Vo Nguyen Giap and his comrades from Dien Bien Phu Campaign Command usually work and rest. Dien Bien Phu Campaign Command Headquarters in Muong Phang Commune (Dien Bien Phu City, Dien Bien Province) – a historical site associated with the Dien Bien Phu Campaign “splendid in five continents, shaking the globe”. Along with the Dien Bien victory relic complex, the Dien Bien Phu Campaign Command relic and the auxiliary tourist site are always “red addresses” attracting tourists to come back when they set foot on the land of Dien Bien – Tay. North Country. With the arrangement of tunnels and camps into a continuous system, hidden in the old forest at the foot of Pu Don mountain, within 105 days from January 31, 1954 to May 15, 1954, the important headquarters of the campaign. Dien Bien Phu is absolutely safe. The road leading deep into the headquarters of the Dien Bien Campaign Command has been upgraded with a concrete road through the Muong Phang forest with a length of more than 1 km to help visitors recall old memories. From this headquarters, going to the highest point, you can observe the entire Dien Bien Phu city, Muong Thanh valley and former French strongholds such as Him Lam hill, Doc Lap hill, D1 hill, hill. C1, hill A1… Simple grass shack, where General Vo Nguyen Giap lived and worked. From General Vo Nguyen Giap’s hut to Chief of Staff Hoang Van Thai and military advisor Vi Quoc Thanh’s shack is a tunnel 69 meters long. The tunnel is 1.70m high, 1 to 3m wide, in the middle of the tunnel there is a meeting room with an area of ​​​​18m2 and 5 positions for placing communication machines. The war house, the daily briefing place of the Dien Bien Phu Campaign Command. Everything is still as intact as the mark of history. Visitors enjoy the Hoang Cam kitchen, a smokeless stove that helps ensure the safety of the base. In addition, Muong Phang also attracts tourists by the production activities of the Thai ethnic group. Traditional brocade weaving of Thai ethnic people in Can Che village.

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There is no adjective that can fully describe your moods and feelings when you get lost in Cuc Phuong butterfly season. Along the tour, on sunny days, colorful butterflies with millions of individuals will flow from the jungle to welcome you. Butterflies like a bandage of the goddess of the Muong are adorned naturally, gently, and fluttering around you. Festival of the jungle – Photo Manh Quyen “The good weather since the end of last year is the perfect condition for butterfly larvae to reproduce. About last March, all over the deep forest bloomed. This sign allows us to assess that this year Cuc Phuong will “have a butterfly season”. Since mid-April, many butterfly streams have appeared along the itinerary. For sure about the forest this year, visitors will get lost in Mother Nature’s amazing dance “. Mr. Nguyen Manh Cuong, Head of Science and International Cooperation Department (Cuc Phuong National Park) excitedly shared. As noted, at this time, around noon to near the end of the afternoon on sunny days, many colorful butterflies gather throughout Cuc Phuong forest. There have been thousands of visitors coming to this place, witnessing, experiencing and saving this wonderful moment. “Milky Way” night primeval forest Not only giving visitors that priceless gift during the day, but at night, the mother of nature in this famous forest also generously gives us a special thing of a very familiar insect. lovely. Although you have experienced firefly viewing anywhere, but if you have not experienced a night of Cuc Phuong firefly season, it will definitely be the thing you most regret. Starting with tiny spots of light, flickering in the night forest canopy. Stop and focus your eyes on that darkness. Just a moment later, before your eyes is a miracle. Thousands, tens of thousands, and then millions of millions of bright spots racing against each other on the night forest floor with sparkling colors. You will unleash your mind to float along the imaginations and associations. Each shining line is as beautiful as a galaxy. Magic forest night – Photo Manh Quyen Gentleness and frequency of burning algae offer a fairytale scene, but from a scientific perspective, this is also an important stage in the life of the fireflies. It is these bright spots that will activate their breeding mechanisms, making an important contribution to keeping the ecological balance and biodiversity of a forest. On the fanciful and mesmerizing path from the Botanical Garden to Mac Lake, you will be given a lot of useful information by Cuc Phuong’s enthusiastic and knowledgeable guides. They and this forest, we will arouse clear feelings about the nature of the country. Preserve heritage – Spread love With such rich ecological potential and landscape, Cuc Phuong National Park has been transformed in a new context. Not only fireflies and butterflies, natural gifts are being researched and developed by the park’s staff into unique ecotourism products. Observe rare primate, watch the dawn of the jungle and hear the early morning bird song in the Semi-Wild Area; Journey to discover the magnificent Cat-silk cave system; Cross primary forest and learn Muong culture; The nights of “sleeping with grass and flowers” in the middle of the forest with “three-no specialties” in the morning see the peacocks spreading their wings to welcome the morning; See the deer and deer looming under the forest canopy at the reserve of precious genetic resources; admire the collection of precious natural specimens at Cuc Phuong Museum; “Add green to the old forest” with visitors participating in planting trees in the national park, responding to the program “Planting a billion trees” of the Government … And especially a unique experience tour entitled “About House ”- where visitors themselves will be involved in the post-rescue wildlife re-release process to the natural environment. All of these ecotourism products are a meaningful and sustainable direction for environmental education that the first national park in Vietnam is trying to implement. Tourists carry out hand washing before visiting. “The year 2021 is the National Tourism Year in Ninh Binh. And the year 2022 will mark the 60-year journey of building and developing Cuc Phuong National Park. We are drastically implementing synchronous solutions on all heavy functions and tasks of the Park. Forest protection is the core, as a premise for ecotourism research and development. Hopefully, with our determination to innovate and efforts, along with the support of tourists and society, Cuc Phuong is a peaceful place to return and carry a stronger message of conservation ”. Mr. Do Van Lap, Deputy Director of the Garden shared.

It turns out, in the heart of the gentle STieng man who has lived for many generations on this land, the memory of the last one-horned Javan rhino shot down in the old forest of Cat Loc is still there. Even though, 10 long years is not a short period of time, it is enough to heal a long pain. Mr. Dieu KGiang was sad when he recalled the one-horned Javan rhino. The panic passed, the image of the last rhino fluttering through its memory suddenly came to life. KGiang drunkenly and unambiguously told me about the times “getting bored” with the single-horned Javan rhino in Bau Chim marshland when he came back to take a mud bath and lick the soil for minerals. He remembers the first time he discovered a rhino on the edge of Cat Loc forest: “Our family has 4 buffaloes but that day we counted 5. The fifth child is a rhino, taking a mud bath with a herd of buffaloes, but it is in another muddy corner! .. I stand just over ten meters away from it. Good look! .. ”. Dieu KGiang said, a large rhino, its black and shiny like a buffalo, but short and long, has a sharp horn in front of the nose, close to arm’s length. After that, long time, Dieu KGiang again found him leisurely in Bau Chim area. Affordable, because so lonely, several times a month, he risked his escape from the jungle to go out to be friends with the domestic buffalo. In the land of the gentle and everlasting people, the Javan rhino finally feels peace and security, though danger is lurking around it. The rumor about the billion-dollar value of the horns barely covered has pushed the last rhino to stand in opposition to humans. Rhino is inherently gentle. It never competes for food or territory with other species, nor does it eat animals. The rhino’s food is mainly reeds, bamboo shoots, rattan buds, leaves… and licking soil for minerals. In the old forest of Cat Loc, rhino’s only enemy is almost human. Free migration has made the peaceful land of STiengs cramped. The “expansion” and destruction of human forest land made the territory and food of the rhino increasingly narrowed and scarce. Unfortunately for this animal because carrying a sharp horn on its head, those who have a lot of money claim to cure the “panacea”. Poachers hunt it day and night. If so, scientists and Cat Tien National Park must use camera traps, placed in many locations in the deep forest to record the moments of the last rhino. More than anyone, Dieu KGiang has seen with his own eyes every detail. Many times, he stood very close. The rhino senses that Dieu KGiang is not the one causing the danger. “The first times, it usually keeps a very long distance from me. Meet it all the time, it’s familiar, I stand close but it still leisurely lick the soil for minerals. One day it was soaked with mud below, I sat right on the bank! .. ”, said Dieu KGiang. Then one day, gunshots rang in the middle of the old Cat Loc forest. Not long after, wildlife experts of the International Union for Conservation of Nature declared: The last single-horned Javan rhino in its population died in the Cat Loc jungle. The rhino species in Vietnam is officially extinct after decades of hope with conservation projects. Dieu KGiang was in pain like losing a loved one. It was a late afternoon in April 2010, 10 years ago. The Javan rhino skeleton is being kept at Cat Tien National Park. The day it was announced that the lone rhino was found dead by a shallow stream in the depths of the forest, the granddaughter of Dieu KGiang ran through a hut that was covered with forest leaves in panic called out: “Pai ro Uncle Ba’s mhai (common name Dieu KGiang) is dead! … “. So from now on, Cat Loc old growth forest has permanently lost all footprints of Javan rhino species, which belonged to the animal lineages that once took a majestic walk to keep the old forest. My friend, Dieu KGiang was disappointed, did not reply halfway to his nephew. He was lost in his heart in the middle of a hut on the edge of the forest, gazing at Bau Chim area. That day, Dieu KGiang skipped dinner! .. For a long time, the responsible people repudiated, blaming the cause of death of this rhino on old age, natural death. Scientists of the International Organization for Nature Conservation are noisy, skeptical, demanding to verify and examine the skeleton. Dieu KGiang asserted: it died from being shot, but it could not be another cause. At this time he has not been to the scene But, the “bored touch” just over ten meters away with this last rhino is a solid basis for Dieu KGiang to assert that it was shot dead but could not be old or weak. “It is completely healthy, round fat, black skin, shiny, unable to die due to old age! ..”, Dieu KGiang asserted. Remember, before the 1980s of last century, experts once declared rhino species extinct in Vietnam. At this time, Dieu KGiang waved his hand, saying rhino was still alive in the old forest of Cat Loc, his hometown. However, no one cares about the voice of a lifelong farmer who only knows buffalo breeding, gathering and living off the forest. And, Dieu KGiang himself did not pay attention to the academic statements of experts and scientists, that rhino was extinct in Vietnam. As long as he and the STieng community living on the edge of the Cat Loc forest know that there is still a population of Pai ro mhai living in the jungle, a few hills away from the other side. That is enough!.. For a long time, in 1988, it was discovered that an adult rhino was shot dead in the forest of Cat Loc, when some people suddenly remembered the words of Dieu KGiang. Also from here, people believe him. The forest in Cat Loc is rich in bamboo, which is a favorite food for rhino. News Cat Tien National Park still has a population of fast spreading single-horn Javan rhinoceros that shocked the zoological circles at home and abroad. In the months and days that followed, Dieu KGiang was busy day and night. He became a guide for scientists to track down rhino traces to “verify information”. He was even trusted by experts of the International Organization for Conservation of Nature, entrusted with automatic cameras to trap and photograph rhinos, even at night. In the effort, in 1989, the domestic and international zoologists had enough grounds to announce that in Cat Loc, the single-horned Javan rhino was about 10-15. A sanctuary for this particular animal was quickly deployed in Cat Loc in the scientists’ last effort to save them. Since then, every time there are conferences and meetings involving Pai ro mhai, Dieu KGiang is honored to be invited to attend. However, in 2010, the lone rhino once walked in the thick forests of Cat Loc and was shot down by poachers. The last attempt to conserve this particularly rare rhino has failed. Vietnam officially goes extinct one-horned Javan rhino. Experts from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature are disappointed, and the KGiang is painful. This time he confirmed the information. In the evening, the mountain was hidden, the night was creeping through the fields. Dieu KGiang shook his head, saying that from that day, Cat Loc had run out of Pai ro mhai. The spirit of the mountains and the sacred symbol of the gentle STieng community who lives nestled in the jungle were killed by poachers to their last child. Now, when chasing buffalo herds into Bau Chim area for grazing, or one day wandering in the old forest of Cat Loc to pick rattan and bamboo shoots, Dieu KGiang tries to imagine the image of the last single-horned rhino the same year to comfort oneself. But, where to find it! …

Located in the middle of the old growth forest of Kon Chu Rang Reserve – a primeval forest spread on the land of 4 provinces: Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, from January to June is the most beautiful time of the year. to conquer the K50 waterfall. There are two possible routes to the falls: from Binh Dinh and from Gia Lai. To reach the K50 waterfall by the direction of Binh Dinh, you have to find an Toan village, An Lao district, Binh Dinh, then hire local people here to guide the path through the forest to the waterfall. If you come to K50 waterfall from Pleiku, Gia Lai, you will have to move along Highway 19 with a distance of about 80km to reach An Khe commune, then continue to Kbang junction then turn left and move about 30km to Kbang district. From Kbang district, you need to move another 60km to move to Kon Chu Rang sanctuary. Here, you will send your vehicle back and begin your trekking journey to conquer the K50 waterfall. After 14km of forest road by motorbike, you will reach Trai Bo. From Ranch, you will send your vehicle back and continue climbing about 4km through the forest, up and down many slopes, crossing streams to reach the falls. It takes about 3 hours to cross the road to get to the K50 waterfall. Although the road is difficult to go, the scene on the two sides of the road is beautiful. You will explore the diverse ecosystems in the Kon Chu Rang nature reserve. With a beautiful scenery like a fairyland on earth – the stream of water flowing from a height of 54m creates white foam creating fog and rainbow light through the reflection of rocks creating a surprisingly beautiful scene in the wilderness. The thousands that K50 waterfall bestowed .. The clear blue spring clearly sees each pebble on the bottom, the rocky outcrops standing in front of the cave entrance. According to the experience of those who have conquered the K50 waterfall, this place is for those who are healthy, like to explore the true meaning of “crossing the forest, wading streams”, so if anyone intends to conquer this beautiful waterfall, prepare good health. For the most complete journey to conquer K50 waterfall, you need to prepare comfortable clothes, climbing shoes to trekking K50 waterfall. You should bring a thin coat to wear during the night when it gets colder. In addition, you should prepare a raincoat because it is rainy and dewy; sleeping tents … You should also prepare enough food and water for the whole journey and bring insect repellent, mosquito repellent, cold medicine and indispensable flashlight, lighters. Below are a bunch of photos sent by Dr. Mai Kieu Phuong to Infonet readers after her journey to conquer the K50 waterfall.