Ba Van Horse Farm

Thai Nguyen has long been famous as a potential place to develop ecotourism in tea hills, streams, waterfalls, rivers, lakes, etc. Coming here, you will have many options to visit, explore, and immerse yourself in the mountains and hills. Asia King Travel will introduce you to Ba Van horse farm - a place that is not known to many people but has many relaxing tourist activities and interesting experiences.

Ba Van Horse Farm. Source: SGGP English Edition

What is Ba Van Horse Farm?

Ba Van Horse Farm is also known as the Mountainous Livestock Research and Development Center. This is the largest place for horse research, growth, and development in our country. The farm has been breeding, preserving, and recreating many horse breeds. Among them, white horses and racing horses are the rarest and most valuable breeds.

Currently, in addition to conservation activities, this place is aiming to develop into a potential ecotourism destination. With the available peaceful highland natural scenery, this is an ideal place to organize outdoor activities and check in for virtual life. Moreover, the horse farm also has extremely attractive sightseeing and horse riding experiences.

What is Ba Van Horse Farm. Source: Pinterest

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Specialties at Ba Van Horse Farm 

With many attractive tourism resources, the horse farm is currently organizing tourism development with many interesting farm tourism activities. This promises to be a form of tourism that brings a new and wonderful feeling to tourists who are passionate about experience and discovery.

1. Enjoy the peaceful grassland space

Given nature with endless green grasslands, Ba Van horse farm is an ideal space for tourists who need to relax. Coming to the peaceful grassland here, you will immerse yourself in the fresh air and forget the pressures and fatigue of life.

Moreover, you will be able to visit and capture images of herds of horses running and grazing freely across the fields. This place will also provide horse feeding and horse riding experiences for visitors to have fun and check in. The extremely lively and poetic natural scenery is sure to make you fascinated and satisfied when traveling here.

2. Relaxing camping in the middle of nature

In the middle of the vast grasslands, relaxing camping is an indispensable activity. Coming to Ba Van horse farm, you can organize picnics with family and friends in the cool, green, and grassy hill space.

Enjoying snacks together and watching the wild grassland scenery with horses will be an activity worth experiencing. Moreover, the horse farm is located along the Cong River with clear, cool water. You can prepare a life jacket to soak your feet or swim here.

Specialties at Ba Van Horse Farm. Source: Pinterest

3. Participate in cultural and culinary festivals

As a land rich in tradition, if you choose the right time, you can visit Ba Van horse farm on the same day as the cultural festivals here. Thai Nguyen people often organize festivals to pray for good harvests and favorable weather, such as Van Mountain Festival, Duom Temple Festival, Hang Pagoda Festival, etc.

This will be a special occasion for tourists to experience, exchange culture, and enjoy the specialties of the highlands. Besides participating in culinary cultural festivals, tourists also have the opportunity to enjoy some famous specialties.

What should you try at Ba Van Horse Farm?

Thai Nguyen cuisine is famous for many specialties of the mountains and hills. Therefore, when coming to the horse farm, you can also enjoy famous and attractive dishes and drinks such as:

What you should try at Ba Van Horse Farm. Source: Vinpearl

• Thai Nguyen tea: Famous for its sweet, unique aroma with a hint of green rice, this specialty tea will captivate you from the first sip. This is also a specialty that tourists often buy as gifts when traveling to Thai Nguyen.
• Dinh Hoa bamboo rice: This dish is made from simple and rustic ingredients. The rice has the characteristic aroma of bamboo tubes and the fragrant, sticky taste of the best sticky rice in September and October.
• Dai Tu sour sausage: The main ingredients of this dish include lean pork, pepper, garlic, rice powder, wine, and guava leaves. When you first eat it, you will find it a bit sour, but the aftertaste of the sausage will be sweet and have a very attractive characteristic aroma.

How to get to Ba Van Horse Farm

As a famous tourist destination, there are many means of transport you can choose to go to Thai Nguyen. From here, you can use your own car, or motorbike or rent a car to go to Ba Van horse farm.

• Train: From Long Bien station, you can choose train QT1 or QT3 to travel to Thai Nguyen in about 2 hours.
• Passenger car: This is a means of transport with more flexible time and more choices. You can take bus companies such as Quyen Nga, Thanh Ha, Trung Hanh, etc., from Giap Bat, My Dinh, or Luong Yen bus stations.
• Plane: Those who live in provinces further from Hanoi will often choose to go by plane. However, because there are no direct flights from Ho Chi Minh City to Thai Nguyen, you will have to fly to Hanoi and choose another means of transport to continue.
• Car and motorbike: The road distance from Hanoi to here will be about 70 km. From the inner city, you will follow Nhat Tan Bridge and then follow National Highway 3. Continue to Thai Nguyen, and you will reach Ba Van Horse Farm, located on the edge of Song Cong City.

Tips for traveling to Ba Van Horse Farm

To make your trip to Ba Van horse farm more complete and meaningful, you need to pay attention to the following issues:

• Check the weather before going to ensure that you have the most convenient schedule.
• Make sure to bring comfortable clothes and shoes so that you can easily explore and check in.
• Don't forget to bring other necessary personal items such as medicine, drinking water, and extra food.
• Buy some typical Thai Nguyen specialties as gifts for family and relatives.

Tips for traveling to Ba Van Horse Farm. Source: Freepik

Conclusion

Thai Nguyen is famous for its many beautiful places. When coming here, visitors will visit many famous tourist attractions as well as enjoy many attractive specialties. During this journey of discovery, do not forget to stop by Ba Van Horse Farm to keep memorable memories. Hopefully, the information from Asia King Travel can help you have a meaningful trip.

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