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Location: Pac Bo Cave is located in Trung
Hoa Commune, Ha Quang District, Cao Bang Province, and 350km from the north of
Hanoi.
Characteristics: Pac Bo is known nationwide as a revolutionary resistance
base
Riding 272km by car from Hanoi along National Highway No3, visitors will arrive
at Cao Bang Town. Sleeping through the night in open air and a cool and quiet
atmosphere of this mountainous area, their tiredness will disappear. The next
morning visitors will ride through Hoa An to reach Ha Quang area. Through the
windows of car, visitors can see golden rice fields lying amid green mountains,
small hamlets with dozens of house son-stilts under the shade of towering
clusters of peach trees, and the winding streams with thatch-roofed bridges.
Visitors will certainly be very interested in enjoying the picturesque scenery,
endowed by the nature. Passing a hill where there is the newly-built Ho Chi Minh
Museum, visitors will see the historical area of Pac Bo. The main historical
relics in this area consist of Pac Bo, Coc Bo, Bo Bam Cave, Lenin Stream, Karl
Marx Mountain, Co Rac Ground and Khuoi Nam. The famous Coc Bo Cave is where
President Ho Chi Minh established his residence and worked on Vietnam’s
revolutionary course after returning from 30 years abroad. Walking on the rocks
along the side of the stream, where Uncle Ho used to work and fish, visitors
reach a wooden bridge over Coc Bo rivulet where Lenin Stream starts. The water
is clear, cool and so tranquil that one can see the fish and pebbles on its bed
and the green watercress in the water. Beyond the bridge is the place where
Uncle Ho often cooked soup with vegetable and bamboo shoots. By the side of a
rugged rocky mountain is Pac Po Cave. Looking down into the cave from its mouth,
you can see the words "February 8th, 1941" written by Uncle Ho on the wall. That
was the day he came to live in this small cave, a wet and cold place lying deep
in a mountain gorge that nobody paid much attention to. Inside the cave there is
a wooden board as a bed for Uncle Ho. In this place, Uncle Ho, in the simple
dress of the Nung ethnic group, often sat by the fire at night to talk with his
assistant Pham Van Dong, Vo Nguyen Giap and Phung Chi Kien... about the
situations at home and abroad. Here, Uncle Ho predicted: "In four or five years,
the Vietnamese revolution will be successful." His words became true. On
September 2nd, 1945 the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the first State of
workers and peasants in Asia, came into being. One night when staying in this
cave, General Vo Nguyen Giap was advised by Uncle Ho: "Undertaking revolutionary
activities requires “di cong vi thuong” which means, common benefits must be put
above all". His teachings were short, clear and precise as a truth, but to
implement them were not easy. About 1km from the mouth of Pac Bo Cave, there is
a small shack by the side of Khuoi Nam Mountain. In this shack Uncle Ho held the
eighth Party Central Committee Meeting, which promulgated a resolution on
preparations for the armed insurrection and the establishment of the Viet Minh
and the revolutionary war zone. Adjacent to the shack is milestone 108 marking
the Vietnam-China border, where 59 years ago, Uncle Ho bowed to kiss the beloved
land of his country, after many years living abroad. At that time he was 50
years old with grey hair. Visiting this historical area, visitors will learn
more about the great life of President Ho Chi Minh which is part- reflected
through his optimistic revolutionary verses.
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