Hoa Binh is a province located in the northwest of Vietnam, about 60km from the capital, Hanoi, and borders the provinces of Phu Tho, Ha Nam, Ninh Binh, Son La and Thanh Hoa. This is the land considered to be the cradle of Muong culture with countless strange things unexplored. Take a tour to Hoa Binh will be an excellent option for travelers who want to learn about the culture, the wonders that nature has bestowed on this land. Hoa Binh hydropower plant is one of them, where visitors can admire the magnificent scenery of the biggest factories in Vietnam, a place to keep the mystery that men undiscovered.
Located on the Da River on the territory of the city of Hoa Binh, about 80km away from Hanoi, Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant is not only an important energy project but also fascinated tourist destination and increasingly is attracting more tourists to visit with many valuable works such as Granite statue of Ho Chi Minh President on Ong Tuong hill with 18m in height; Traditional house where keeps the century letter sent to future generations; Monument of Vietnam citizens and Soviet Union experts who sacrificed on the Hydropower project.
Hoa Binh Hydropower is the final steps but the first built on the basin of Da River. This is the work that was supported comprehensively by Soviet from the designing stage, supplying of equipment, directing and supervising the construction and installation, testing adjustment and participating in the operation and repair. There are nearly 40,000 officers, engineers, workers, including nearly 900 Soviet experts joining this hydropower project. It was built in the most difficult period of the Vietnam country in the transition period. The workers took more than 1,200 days to pierce mountains to dig a 15km tunnel to install tens of thousands of tons of equipment and machine. Hoa Binh hydropower plant was named the “century project” not only because it is the largest hydropower project of the twentieth century (at that time Son La Hydropower Plant has not built yet), a symbol of friendship, but also because it has a special position in the system of electricity and flood control. Hoa Binh Lake has an annual average cut from 4-6 major floods, with the amount of 10000-22650 m3 / s. To enter the space of machine, visitors have to go through the tunnel which is very majestic, clean with the glamorous and dim lighting system that makes the tunnel like an underground palace.
After visiting the dams, you will be directed to offer incense at 18m statue of Uncle Ho mad of white granite on Ong mountain, visit Monument of 168 people (including 11 Soviet experts ) have stayed in this place because of the national electric lines, discover Hoa Binh Hydropower Museum and explore the place that keeps “The letter of the people who build Hoa Binh hydropower send to future generations”. The content of the letter has not been published that makes Hoa Binh Hydroelectric Plant more attractive by the mysteries bringing legendary factor.
Coming to Hoa Binh Hydroelectric, visitors can not help being overwhelmed by the great century work built with manpower of over 15 years. The majestic beauty of the dam is the concrete walls blocking a hundred meters high water flows. The hydropower lake is vast and surrounded by towering limestone mountains. If traveling on the occasion of the flood, you can see a magnificent and unique spectacle. The image of each cascade discharges white foam is like the natural waterfalls. Even standing from a far distance, you can hear the sound of rumbling waterfall, going closer, you can not help marveling at the clever ingenuity of human.
Hoa Binh hydropower plant attracts tourists by the magnificent, poetic of the largest artificial lake in Vietnam. Come and explore this great century work will be fresh memories to keep in the mind of guests.
