Tu Le hot spring spreads along with Highway 32 to Mu Cang Chai. Tu Le is a commune close to Khau Pha pass in Van Chan district (Yen Bai), located in the heart of the valley, Tu Le is known for its beautiful scenery, ladder, nationwide well-known for sticky rice of the Thai ethnic group. But the most attractive point in this mountainous land is the traditional, innocent, unique activities: “group bathing” at the hot spring.
This place is endowed with a hot spring all year round and the Thai people in Tu Le have bathed in free mineral water for hundreds of years. In the winter, when the temperature in Tu Le is just below 10 degrees, the temperature under the hot spring stays at 38-40 degrees. In Tu Le, there are two hot spring baths right next to the cool stream and on the bank is a golden ripe field.
A very hot bath and another warm bath. The long or short shower is optional for each person. Every afternoon, each group of people, regardless of girls, boys, old and young, pulls themselves down into the hot spring, naturally expels their clothes and becomes “fairies” in the middle of the forest. Some people bathe in mineral water in a trendy way, others wear traditional dressing gowns.
Evenly, a lady takes her robes of on the stone to completely immerses the ivory body in the warm stream of water, it does not matter because it had been for hundreds of years. Tourists coming here will be enjoying themselves in nature, resting and relaxing in the hot water.
They shower together after a hard day as a way of connecting peope more deeply. Bathing together is an inseparable culture in Thai culture in Tu Le.
