🔻Tam Dao Hill Station is perched on the slope of Tam Dao Mountain Range, in Vinh Phuc Province, in the North West of Vietnam. The town has an average elevation of over 1,000m above sea level and is cool all year round. Besides, Tam Dao Town is part of Tam Dao National Park which has the total area of 36,883 hectares and which is covered mostly by tropical forests.
🔻Since the town is covered in clouds most of the time, from distance and from above we can only see three mountain peaks around the hill station: Ban Thach (1388m above sea level), Thien Nhi (1375m) and Phu Nghia (1400m). Because of this reason, Tam Dao got its name which in Vietnamese means “Three Islands”.
🔻In 1904, the French built Tam Dao into a hill station for the officials of the colonial government to escape the summer heat in the Red River Delta. Tam Dao of the time had 143 hotels and villas with beautiful architecture. All these buildings were destroyed in the war, and what left now of the past are ruins of the once splendid beauties.
🔻Tam Dao is popular for Vietnamese tourists in the summer and not visited often by the foreign travellers to Vietnam. There are many hotels and guest houses in town, only a few of which provide professional service. Prices in the town are raised to the extremes at weekend during the summer when services are normally booked out.
While the draw-card of Tam Dao is the cool climate, there are the temple dedicated to the Goddess of the Mountains and the Silver Waterfall that are worth to visit. If you like hiking, then you can climb the steps to the Thien Nhi Peak; the visit requires some good physical efforts and should take a couple of hours. If you like bird watching and trekking, then there are good places in the forets of Tam Dao National Park. The park authority also offers trips for professionals to learn about the flora and fauna system of Tam Dao.
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