1. Where is Bac Tra My?
Bac Tra My is a mountainous district located in the southwest of Quang Nam province, Vietnam. About 95 km from Hoi An city, about 50 km southwest of Tam Ky city and about 120 km south of Da Nang city. With geographical location:
- The East borders Nui Thanh district and Tra Bong district, Quang Ngai province.
- The West borders Phuoc Son district.
- The South borders Nam Tra My district.
- The North borders Tien Phuoc district, Hiep Duc district and Phu Ninh district.
2. How is Bac Tra My unique?
Bac Tra My is blessed by Mother Nature with a wild and beautiful landscape like a watercolor painting. And it has a cool, fresh atmosphere all year round. Thanks to these outstanding potentials, recently Bac Tra My has been put into operation and developed into an eco-tourism area. That captivates tourists every time they set foot there.
When traveling here, you will admire the Five Floor Waterfall with white foam all year round. You can also watch the towering Hon Ba Mountain hidden in white clouds or conquer the cloud-covered Ngoc Linh peak.
As for tourists who love culture and history, this is definitely the ideal destination for you to learn about the beauty of the cultural traditions of the people in this land.
3. When is the best time to visit Bac Tra My?
This area belongs to Quang Nam province, so before planning to go to Bac Tra My, pay attention to monitoring the local weather. According to our experience, the most ideal time to go to Bac Tra My is during the dry season, from April to August every year. This is the right time for you to visit and experience outdoor activities.
The weather at this time is dry and sunny. As soon as you set foot in Bac Tra My, you will enjoy the cool air like it radiates from a giant air conditioner, making all your fatigue instantly disappear.
Because it is a mountainous district, you should not come here during the rainy and stormy season in Central Vietnam, from September to December every year. At this time, it often rains in the evening, which will be very inconvenient for fun activities and exploring tourist attractions.
4. How to get to Bac Tra My from Tam Ky city?
Starting from Tam Ky city center, you move along National Highway 40B southwest about 22 km and then come to a fork. From here, you turn left onto provincial road DT616 and continue moving southwest about 25 km to the center of Tra My town, Bac Tra My district.
5. Sightseeings at Bac Tra My
5.1 Nuoc Oa historical relic site
The Oa historical relic site is an attractive destination with more than 9 small relics inside. As one of Vietnam’s important Revolutionary historical relic complexes, this place welcomes thousands of visitors each year.
This is definitely the ideal destination for those who want to learn and learn the Revolutionary traditions, patriotism and fighting spirit of their predecessors.
5.2 Ong Thuc Waterfall
Ong Thuc Waterfall has emerged as a tourist destination with fresh, cool beauty for tourists who want to explore nature, mountains and forests in Quang Nam. With cool water, not too deep streams and the friendliness and hospitality of the ethnic people here. They are the plus points for Ong Thuc waterfall that make you want to visit even just once.
5.3 Muong village ecological area
Home to the Muong ethnic people, the Muong village ecological area with its peaceful, pristine space has captivated the hearts of many visitors. Amidst the mountains and forests of Tra My, Muong village offers visitors interesting ethnic cultural experiences and a cool, fresh and peaceful natural space.
6. Activities and experiences in Bac Tra My
6.1 Visiting the “Cao Son Ngoc Que” area
The land of Bac Tra My is the capital of cinnamon trees. Tra My cinnamon is famous as “High mountain jade cinnamon” – a precious species of cinnamon that grows on high mountains, and has been granted a geographical indication certificate by the Intellectual Property Department.
Traveling to Bac Tra My, don’t miss the opportunity to explore the vast, green cinnamon growing area. Cinnamon trees here originally grew wild in the forest, they brought back and planted in their gardens by the Ca Dong, M’Nong, BHnoong, Xo Dang,…People in Bac Tra My for many generations. Since then, this place has developed into an area specializing in cinnamon cultivation.
Cinnamon trees not only bring main income to the people here but also become a symbolic image of Bac Tra My. Cinnamon forests turn the land next to the legendary Truong Son range increasingly majestic, rich, and green.
6.2 Admiring Hon Ba mountain and watching the Five Floor waterfall
Traveling to Bac Tra My, you will be able to see the spacious and majestic scenery expanding before your eyes. In the distance, Hon Ba mountain stands tall, hidden in the morning mist and white clouds at dawn.
Five Floor Waterfall is also a highlight of this western region of Quang Nam. Five Storey Waterfall is located on Highway 40B from Quang Nam to Kon Tum. This is a stopping point for tourists on the road to explore the mountains and forests of Quang Nam, possessing majestic beauty that fascinates people.
The Five-Storey Waterfall is divided in order from low to high as if challenging the courage of visitors to conquer. The waterfall is nearly 100 meters high, water flows from the cliff directly onto the rocks. Over many years, clear lakes have been formed here, some with an area of more than 10 square meters and a water depth of more than 3 meters.
When coming here, visitors can enjoy immersing themselves in the fresh, cool water flowing from the rocky mountains. Rainy season as well as sunny season, the waterfall here never dries up all year round.
6.3 Watching Ngoc Linh peak covered in clouds all year round
Ngoc Linh Mountain stretches across 4 provinces of Gia Lai, Kon Tum, Quang Nam, and Quang Ngai. The massive mountain massif of the Truong Son range, with its vertical mountain reaching up to the sky, is a favorite place for “travelers” who love adventure.
When traveling to Bac Tra My, you will be overwhelmed and fascinated when looking at the poetically beautiful Ngoc Linh range thanks to the magical cloud cover. Adding to the beauty of the mountain is the legendary DakBla River running across. As a sacred mountain located in the land of spiritual convergence, Ngoc Linh attracts millions of visitors each year. The most prominent of these is the conquest of skyscraper peaks, with an altitude of more than 2,500m.
6.4 Learning about the cultural beauty of ethnic minorities
Origin Travel believes that you will have an unforgettable impression when immersing yourself in the colorful cultural space of ethnic minorities when you come to the western region of Quang Nam.
Take advantage of this time to explore and admire the tangible and intangible cultural beauties and experience the daily cultural lifestyle of the people here.
What could be more wonderful than enjoying the specialties of the mountains and forests, immersing yourself in the sound of gongs echoing in the middle of the jungle. You can also breathe in the fresh air between the mountains and forests, with the faint scent of seductive cinnamon.
6.5 Checking-in amidst romantic space, camping, picnicking
As a tourist and picnic destination with fresh natural scenery with mountains and waterfalls, coming to Bac Tra My, you will have the opportunity to organize fun activities.
Organizing a barbecue in an open, fresh space, camping, fishing or swimming,… are suggestions for you. For those who love adventure, don’t forget to walk around, explore the wild scenery of the old forest, and look at the tall old trees that are hundreds of years old.
7. Specialties when traveling to Bac Tra My
Bac Tra My is famous for its mountain and forest specialties uniquely prepared from local ingredients. The dishes not only have delicious flavors but are also beautifully decorated, imbued with the traditional culinary culture of the Western region of Quang Nam.
7.1 Lam rice
Lam rice is available in many localities, but in Bac Tra My, this dish is prepared in the unique style of highlanders. Ethnic people here often use bamboo tubes (bamboo tubes) to cook the specialty of bamboo tube rice.
The rice is cooked from sticky rice, the traditional sticky rice of the highland people, very sticky and fragrant. Rice is put into bamboo tubes, etc. Grilled over charcoal fire.
When eating, people will separate the bamboo shell from the bamboo tube, break small pieces of rice, dip it with salt and wild chili, or eat it with grilled meat, bamboo shoots, wild vegetables, etc. The aroma of sticky rice blends with the smell of bamboo shells. The bamboo is grilled on a charcoal stove, creating an unforgettable, seductive flavor.
7.2 Bamboo tube grilled meat
During the journey to explore Bac Tra My tourist area, Duong missed the opportunity to enjoy bamboo-tube grilled meat of the Co Tu people. People often use the meat of wild boar, deer, chamois, stream frog, etc. sliced, marinated with spices and stuffed into bamboo tubes, covered with banana tree core intestines.
Then, put the meat tube around the charcoal stove to grill until cooked evenly. Bamboo tube grilled meat retains its sweet juice and original delicious taste of the dish.
7.3 Quang Nam mountain shoots
Mountain shoots grow naturally throughout the forests in the mountainous districts of Quang Nam. There are many types of bamboo for bamboo shoots such as bamboo, bamboo, etc.
Every year, from May to September of the lunar calendar, highland people here will go to the forest early in the morning to pick bamboo shoots. After being harvested, the old outer layer of bamboo shoots is peeled, leaving only the young shoots inside.
Mountain bamboo shoots can be processed into many different delicious dishes. Such as bamboo shoot soup, shredded mountain bamboo shoots mixed with chili garlic fish sauce,…Adding a little peanut oil and stir-fry with crushed tubers.
7.4 Black pork
Black pork is also a dish that many tourists “hunt” for on their journey to explore Bac Tra My. Black pigs in the mountains here are raised naturally in clean, open spaces. Pigs are fed mainly bananas, wine residue, soybean residue, ground corn pulp along with vegetables, tea leaves, etc. So they grow slowly, the meat is sweet and firm, and irresistibly delicious.
Black pig is processed into many famous delicacies such as grilled pork skewers, grilled pork, stir-fried black pork with lemongrass and chili…
7.5 Stone snail soup cooked with greens
Stone snails are natural snails that live abundantly in rivers and streams in the western region of Quang Nam. People called stone snail because this type of snail specializes in living on rocks and eating moss. Snails are yellow-black, shiny, the size of a chopstick head, large ones are as big as an index finger, about 3-5 cm long.
A bowl of stone snail soup cooked with greens definitely has the main ingredient being stone snail meat, combined with greens. This is a wild vegetable loved by people here. However, visitors from far away will definitely feel strange about this dish.
A bowl of stone snail soup cooked with green vegetables will have dark vegetable leaves with a soft, crunchy taste, mixed with chewy snail meat. It creates a delicious, sweet flavor. In addition, stone snails are also processed into many delicious dishes. Such as snails stir-fried with lemongrass and chili, snails steamed with lemon leaves, snail porridge…
7.6 Can wine
Can wine is a product present anytime, anywhere, in the daily life and especially festivals of the mountainous people of Quang Nam. If you have the opportunity to come to Bac Tra My. Don’t miss the opportunity to enjoy the aromatic Can wine specialty here.
8. Accommodation when traveling to Bac Tra My
When traveling here, you can refer to some of the accommodations below:
- Minh Quan Guesthouse. Address: Tra Mai, Nam Tra My, Quang Nam.
- Tra My Guest House. Address: Road 616, Tra My Town, Bac Tra My, Quang Nam.
- Highlands Guest House. Address: Road 616, Tra My Town, Bac Tra My, Quang Nam.
- Phuong Nam Hoi An Hotel. Address: 224 Ly Thai To, Bac Tra My, Quang Nam.
9. What to prepare before traveling to Bac Tra My
- Food: Priority should be given to dry foods, snacks, fruits, bottled water, etc. that can be stored neatly in a travel bag.
- Camera, phone: These are indispensable items on every trip. Don’t forget to fully charge the battery and bring a spare charger if you have one.
- Travel gear: Mountaineering sneakers, jackets, hats, umbrellas, raincoats, insect repellent spray, etc. are essential items for a trip to an outdoor tourist destination like Bac Tra My.
- Medical equipment: When traveling in pristine places, preparing some medical equipment such as cotton, gauze, antiseptic, anti-allergy medicine, digestive medicine, etc. is very necessary.
10. Some important notes when traveling to Bac Tra My
Make your trip to Bac Tra My safe, full of joy and complete. You need to refer to the necessary notes below:
- You should bring tents, tarpaulins, etc. if you want to sit and rest or organize meals on site.
- Because it is a large tourist destination. When coming here, you should preferably wear comfortable, sweat-absorbent clothes to facilitate long-distance travel.
- You should read the signs carefully and follow the advice of tour guides and staff at the tourist area. When participating in experiential activities to ensure your own safety.
- Proactively contact and book rooms in advance at hotels and accommodations near tourist attractions. In order to avoid running out of rooms or not being able to book a room at your favorite place.
- To keep the landscape environment clean and beautiful. After playing, eating and drinking, don’t forget to clean up. Absolutely do not litter in the forest or into rivers and streams.
Above is the experience of exploring Bac Tra My that Origin Vietnam – a professional tour operator, has for you. Just grasp the above information and you will have a complete and enjoyable tour Vietnam to discover the travel beauty of Quang Nam province.
Let’s “escape” together, away from the dust and noise in the city, leaving behind the chaos and worries of life. We believe that you will find your soul completely relaxed. You will erased all fatigue and worries when immersed in the romantic mountain and forest space of Bac Tra My.
