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Tam Dao                                 On Tam Dao range, there is the
                                        famous relic site named Tay Thien
Tam Dao is a rocky mountain range       and Tay Thien temple (also known
in the Northeast of Vietnam, located    as Mau temple). The road to Tay
in three provinces: Vinh Phuc, Thai     Thien is full of obstacles and difficult
Nguyen and Tuyen Quang. Tam Dao         of access. Tourists must cross many
resort (in Tam Dao town) is romantic    rivulets, streams, mountain slopes
location, located in the valley of Tam  and dense forests.
Dao National Park 86km from Hanoi.
                                        But Thap pagoda
Tam Dao resort has an average
height of 879m above sea level,         But Thap pagoda (in Thuan Thanh
endowed by great mountains,             District, Bac Ninh Province) was
cool air and annual average             built in 1647. It is one of the famous
temperature of 18OC. From the           pagodas with unique architecture
early 20th century, the French built    and ancient sculptures with the
this place as a resort with many        most accurate scale in Vietnam. The
villas, hotels, swimming pools and      stone 5-storey Bao Nghiem tower is
sports grounds.                         regarded as the cultural symbol of
                                        Northern Vietnam. In the pagoda,
Tam Dao National Park also has          there are many valuable statues of
about 2,000 species of plants and       Buddha and antiques such as the
about 840 species of animals. Many      thousand-eye and thousand-hand
species are enlisted in the Red         Kuan Yin statue with the height
Book as they are extremely rare         of 3.7m, Tuyet Son statue, Thi Gia
and precious.                           statue and 18 arhats.

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