Cua Dat Lake - majestic and peaceful natural beauty

Cua Dat Lake is known to many people today for its majestic and peaceful natural scenery. This is one of the massive and modern projects in our country's hydroelectric industry. Please follow us to explore this tourist destination.

1. Some details about Cua Dat Lake

Cua Dat Lake is known to many people today for its majestic and peaceful natural scenery. This is one of the massive and modern projects in our country's hydroelectric industry. Please follow us to explore this tourist destination.

Cua Dat Lake is famous for its vast cinnamon forests with a gentle fragrance. This is a meaningful project that contributes to economic change and development. Around the lake are stilt houses of the Muong and Thai ethnic groups living side by side. Cua Dat Lake was built to solve the problem of sustainable nature conservation.

2. Where is Cua Dat Lake?

Cua Dat Lake is located in Xuan My commune, Thuong Xuan district, Thanh Hoa province. The lake is located entirely in Xuan Lien nature reserve, Cua Dat lake is located to the west about 60km from Thanh Hoa city center. The lake is known as a civil irrigation project combined with hydroelectricity, contributing to flood control and maintaining stable agricultural water sources for the southern/northern Chu River region. That is the main purpose of building the lake, however, when completed, the scenery here has a peaceful natural beauty so it is known to many tourists. 

The Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam signed approval for investment and construction of Cua Dat Lake in January 2003. After about 1 year to February 2004, the lake's construction began. By 2009, after 5 years, the lake construction process was completed.

Cua Dat Lake has a surface area of ​​about 31km2 with a water reserve of up to 1.45 billion m3, bringing many positive changes to the lives of surrounding people. Besides contributing to flood prevention, the lake also maintains and provides a stable water source for agriculture. Providing industrial water for people in neighboring areas. Not only that, this is also an important electricity supply area of ​​Thanh Hoa province.

3. What is beautiful about Cua Dat Lake?

Not only has a large lake, Cua Dat Lake also has many interesting attractions such as caves and beautiful natural waterfalls located in Xuan Lien nature reserve. Besides, there are many sacred temples and pagodas here, visitors can also experience boating, admire the majestic natural scenery or fish in the lake. Follow us to explore interesting places around Cua Dat Lake.

4. The beauty of Cua Dat Lake

Cua Dat Lake is located in the middle of vast mountains and forests with a large area. This place is considered the eye of the green forest. The clear blue lake water reflects the mountains and sky above. When the sky changes, the lake's surface takes on its own color. Amidst the vast space, you will have a feeling of freedom and peace enjoying the fresh air away from noise and dust.

5. Xuan Lien Nature Reserve

With an area of ​​more than 21 thousand hectares, Xuan Lien Nature Reserve stretches across 5 communes of Thuong Xuan district. It can be said that the reserve is likened to the lungs of Thanh Hoa province with a tropical rainforest ecosystem with a rich diversity of flora and fauna. Xuan Lien Nature Reserve has not had many tourism development activities, so this place still retains many wild features, natural scenery and fresh air. 

In the reserve, there are many majestic mountains over 1000m high such as Pu Ta Leo, Pu Rinh, Pu Gio,... contributing to the diversity of flora and fauna from low to high. Not only that, this place also has many waterfalls over 200m high such as Hon Yen Waterfall, Tien Waterfall, Tat Mu Waterfall,... Along with many cave complexes that attract tourists to explore experiences such as Tinh Cave, Tinh Cave. King, Muong cave,...

6. What to eat at Cua Dat Lake?

If you have the opportunity to visit Cua Dat Lake, you will have the opportunity to enjoy many specialties of the Muong and Thai ethnic people here. With the water surface area and many streams and waterfalls, fish is the dish that people prepare the most. We can mention special fish dishes such as: Hired fish, Thiet Linh fish, and Lip fish. On the mountain, there will be dishes made from grass pigs, hill chickens and mountainous specialties such as soup, grilled stream fish, bamboo-tube rice and attractive dipping sauce.

It can be said that among famous tourist destinations, Cua Dat Lake is still not known to many tourists. Because of this, this place still retains many wild natural beauty and has not had much impact from humans. This place is gradually becoming known to many tourists for its tourism development activities coupled with conservation. If you have the opportunity to visit Thanh Hoa province, don't forget to add this interesting destination to your exploration journey. Surely the scenery here will not disappoint you. Wishing you and your family many happy and memorable trips in the near future. 

Thank you for your choiceiguide.aito accompany your exciting experience!