Published:  16:56 Monday - September 28, 2015

Visiting Nga Son District of Thanh Hoa Province, you will enjoy your chance to discover magnificent landscapes as well as taste special foods in this place. It absolutely will bring you unforgettable memories and keeps you back one more time.

• Nga Son in sedge season

Nga Son District is located in the north - east of Thanh Hoa province, it is considered to be a destination with a lot of beautiful and stunning sites as well as delicious and unique dishes. There are 250 cultural monuments with 42 monuments which have been rated in Nga Son. Coming to Nga Son, visitors will be surprised at seeing mountain ranges and knowing about the legend of sites in this place. 

Nga Son is attached to the legend of Mai An Tiem, Ba Dinh revolution and Nga Son mat weaving. Visitors firstly will have an opportunity to immense themselves into the landscape with a lot of mountains here. Nga Son is one of the districts in Thanh Hoa that has a lot of mountains with beautiful and fascinating landscapes. It is a very ideal place for you to take a picnic or a party on air. It is also the choice of couples for their wedding pictures due to the natural and magnificent beauty of the mountains and lakes here. There are some famous monuments in Nga Son that visitors should take a visit while visiting Nga Son.

First of all, Mai An Tiem pagoda is seemed to be the most interesting place in Nga Son that you can not miss during your trip. This place is attached to the legendary figure of Hung Vuong. The pagoda covers 3,5 ha in Nga Son and it was designated the national cultural heritage. Annually, the pagoda often takes place the festival from 12nd to 15th of March (Lunar calendar). On the occasion of the festival, there are many activities taking place in this place such as performances, competition of folk games such as tug of war, bag jumping, human chess, cock fighting, rice cooking competition,... These folk games make the festival become more interesting and exciting. Besides it, it is a place for those who follow Buddhism and it is the place of worship. Therefore, there are so many people in the province and in the country often gather in this place to visit the pagoda as well as carry out their worship. 

Secondly, Tu Thuc Cave is another destination in Nga Son that you should spend time visiting and experiencing its amazing beauty. The cave is attached to the legend of "Tu Thuc meets Fairy" and it was rated the national unique landscape by Ministry of Culture and Information. Tu Thuc Cave is a colourful and wonderful cave with a lot of stalactites in different shapes and sizes. You will seem to be lost in the paradise when coming to visit Tu Thuc Cave. 

In addition, Tien pagoda is an interesting place to visit in Nga Son. The pagoda is located in Nga An commune and it is surrounded by mountains. The festival of Tien pagoda often happens between 14th and 16th of March (Lunar calender), after festival of Mai An Tiem pagoda. It is also a place of worship and attracts a lot of tourists on the occasion of festival. Furthermore, Ba Dinh war Zone, Than Phu porch, Le Thi Hoa temple and Van Hoan pagoda are other fantastic destinations that visitors can not miss on their trip. Let's take advantage of your chance to go to visit Nga Son to know more about this natural and peaceful place.

One more featuring thing that you will have chance to experience in Nga Son that is how to make mat weaving. Most of people know that Nga Son is famous for making projector. People in this place have their own way to make projector and other products from shichito matgrass. Visitor will be experienced to make mat weaving when coming to Nga Son by people in this place. It will be a very exciting and wonderful experience. 

Not only that, Nga Son is also well - known for a lot of special and featured dishes that you only can have chance to enjoy these dishes in Nga Son. Nhech raw fish is one of the special food in Nga Son that you should try when visiting Nga Son. It is a very featured dish processed with special and careful recipe. You only can enjoy the real taste of the dish in Nga Son, it is different from Nhech raw fish in other places. 

Fermented pork roll is another featured food in Thanh Hoa in common and Nga Son in particular that a lot of people are interested in it. Thanh Hoa is famous for fermented pork roll and when somebody recalls to Thanh Hoa, they immediately think about this kind of dish. No where in Vietnam that can makes fermented pork roll as tasty as in Thanh Hoa. 

Nga Son is also famous for the dishes of goat husk compost, mountain snail, glutinous - rice wine,...Being the place with a lot of mountains surrounding, goat husk incubated is a special and expensive dish in Nga Son. Mountain snail and glutinous - rice wine are featuring dishes that you can taste in Nga Son to know how interesting it is. 

Do not be hesitate and let's take a visit to Nga Son to discover and experience beautiful landscapes and interesting foods in Nga Son. You will get memorable memories in this place.