’Wake up the beauty’ Tay Ho

Nguyễn Oanh - 12:51 02/04/2023

Located in the northwest of Hanoi, Tay Ho is identified as a service-tourism center, a cultural center, and a protected area for the natural landscape of the capital. Tay Ho district has West Lake with an area of ​​about 526 hectares, located entirely within the district's boundaries, is a beautiful natural landscape of Hanoi and the whole country; to the north and east is the Red River flowing from the north to the south. The area around West Lake has many long-standing villages with many traditional crafts. With valuable historical monuments, concentrated around West Lake, making Tay Ho becomes one of the most prominent landmarks of the Capital.

Tay Ho has many new tourist attractions to attract tourists

On January 20, Tay Ho District (Hanoi) promoted tourism potential advantages from flower growing areas, ecological flower gardens, typical relic sites and unique cuisine in the district to other destinations. Hanoi travel enterprises aim to develop tourism and attract visitors to Tay Ho.

Famous throughout the country with flower growing areas: Nhat Tan peach, Quang Ba kumquat, Tu Lien, Tay Ho also have a system of 71 monuments, with 43 ranked monuments; Many monuments and landscapes are included in the tours of Hanoi such as West Lake, Tran Quoc Pagoda, Kim Lien Pagoda, Tay Ho Palace, Van Nien Pagoda, Trinh Cong Son Walking Street...

This poetic land of Hanoi is also famous for its unique cuisines: Quang An lotus tea, Phu Thuong sticky rice, shrimp cakes, and West Lake snail vermicelli... Every season when lotus blooms, West Lake is filled with the footsteps of tourists. The sisters wore bright dresses, and rosy bibs, took pictures at the lotus lake and enjoyed tea marinated in lotus flowers in the middle of the lake.

Every year near the Lunar New Year, the gardens of Nhat Tan Peach and Tu Lien Kumquat are bustling with tourists' footsteps. Quang Ba flower market, the famous wholesale flower market throughout Hanoi and the Yen Phu dike route are also bustling during the flower seasons of the year. Le Thi Nhan, Deputy General Director, Service Director of Hanoi Entertainment Services Joint Stock Company (Haseco) said: “Last season, we welcomed many delegations from the South and Central Highlands to Hanoi. Take pictures of flowers in the Red River Rock Garden and the West Lake Flower Valley. Including commissions from Da Lat (Lam Dong). I was very surprised and asked why: Why come here from the flower city and still like flowers so much? Guests say: Da Lat is a city of real flowers, but the climate of Da Lat is different from Hanoi. Hanoi in autumn with golden sunshine and lucky wind is something that Da Lat does not have. Moreover, the chrysanthemum, West Lake lotus, mausoleum, and succulent flowers of Hanoi are also different from wild sunflowers and cherry apricots in Da Lat.

Tourist attractions in Tay Ho district strictly implement the prevention of Covid-19 epidemic

In order to continue to stimulate domestic tourism demand in 2021 and to turn Tay Ho into a tourist service center, a cultural center of the city, and to make tourism truly a key economic sector of the District, today On January 20, the People's Committee of Tay Ho District organized a survey to introduce the tourism potential of Tay Ho district to more than 100 representatives of travel agencies, press agencies, and tourism experts. The delegation of tourism businesses and the press visited Van Nien Pagoda, Song Hong Rock Garden, West Lake Flower Valley and typical culinary services of Tay Ho.

Mr. Nguyen Dinh Khuyen, Chairman of Tay Ho District People's Committee said: “This program aims to promote the tourism potential of the District more deeply to tour operators. The promotion of tourism development in the district not only brings into play the potential strengths of natural, cultural and historical tourism resources, but also supports the preservation and development of traditional crafts, adding value. Economic efficiency from growing peaches and kumquats is well known. We hope that in the coming time, travel companies will continue to accompany the District, build Tay Ho tour products, attract tourists from all over the country to Tay Ho and retain tourists staying on the island. in the District, spend more on tourism services in the District”.

The most suitable type of tourism in Tay Ho is the type of cultural-historical tourism, spiritual tourism, school tourism, culinary tourism, etc. The tours are full of nature, full of culture but not humanized. create. With a beautiful, large and romantic space like Tay Ho, it is completely possible to invest in the culinary villages of Hanoi and Vietnam. Besides, to really have attractive products, Tay Ho needs to have good stories about destinations; have a team of on-site guides who are local or who have a deep understanding of the destination, about the monument, able to inspire guests.

In the long term, the investment in natural tourism space associated with the Red River, creating a large park, imbued with culture, associated with unique geological and geomorphological values; Boat docks connecting localities, full-service berths, high-class yachts or day-trip passenger ships... can create a breakthrough development of Tay Ho tourism. particular and Hanoi in general.