Black virgin pagoda Tay Ninh is one of the famous pagodas in south of Vietnam. It just takes 2-3 hours for moto bike from HCMC and is a quite nice place to visit on weekend.
How to go to Black Virgin pagoda, Tay Ninh From Ho Chi Minh
It is 82km from HCM to go to the pagoda. We gather at 5:30am to start early avoiding of traffic and sunshine. Driving moto bike along Cong Hoa Street to Cu Chi and go to Tay Ninh following Google Map. I can say that it isn’t difficult at all to go there by moto bike
Among the way going to the pagoda, we stopped in the restaurant to have Breakfast. We had “Bánh Canh” in “Bánh Canh Dì 5” one the famous restaurant with Trảng Bàng special food. The soup taste delicious.
Black Virgin Pagoda
According to Wikipedia, Black Virgin Mountain (Vietnamese: Núi Bà Đen meaning “Black Lady Mountain”) is a mountain in Tây Ninh City, Vietnam. The mountain is the center of a Vietnamese myth about Bà Đen, a local deity of Khmer origin. During the Vietnam War the area around the mountain was a hot zone as the Ho Chi Minh Trail ended a few kilometers west across the Cambodian border. As such there were many battles and American and Vietnamese soldiers based in the region remember the prominent landmark.[1] After the war the mountain turned from a battleground to being famous for its beautiful temples and theme park.
Visit Back Virgin Pagoda
In the entrance, you can part the moto bike and enter the location. Black Virgin pagoda is on the top of the mountain. There are 2 ways to go to the Pagoda: Cable Car or Treking.
Using Cable car to get on top
If you go up by cable car, once you enter the park, find your way to the entrance of the cable car which will lead you to the lower third of the mountain, each way being just around 4 minutes to complete. Once you reach the end of the cable car, you’ll have to climb up through a paved staircase for around 30 – 45 mins depending on how fast you do it. Along these staircases you will find Pagodas where the local Vietnamese go to to worship.
Hike Up to the mountain
If you want to hike up to the very top of the mountain, it’s about a 6 hour hike there and back from the foot of the mountain. From the pagoda it’s probably about 4.5 hours return. Hiking fun starts the end of the staircases, which marks another 2-hour hike to the summit of the mountain. The trail is very visible that it is impossible to get lost, but challenging because of the rocky or bouldery path. Along the way, after around one hour of leaving the staircase, you would find a rock protruding which you should not miss take a picture at. The views, of course, are beautiful. Dau Tieng Lake, Vietnam’s largest water reserve, can be seen from the east side of the mountain.
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