Ban Gioc-Detian Waterfalls, a landscape area located in the Quay Son River that straddles the Vietnam-China border, is slated for pilot opening in October this year.

The waterfalls are specially situated between Vietnam’s Cao Bang Province and China’s Guangxi Province.

Hoang Xuan Anh, chairman of the Cao Bang administration, at a meeting held last Thursday urged the relevant departments and agencies in the area to complete procedures for the trial opening of the site, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

During the pilot operation, visitors from China to the Vietnam side will need to pay an entrance fee of VND70,000 (US$3) per person. The fee includes insurance and excludes other service surcharges.

They will travel on electric cars along National Highway 4A to reach locations in the landscape area, including a border checkpoint to the Ban Gioc Waterfall, the foot of the waterfall, the Saigon Ban Gioc Hotel, and Truc Lam Ban Gioc Pagoda.

Meanwhile, visitors from Vietnam to the China side will be exempted from the entrance fee during the pilot period.

Vietnam has also requested the China side to expand a sightseeing route to the Detian Waterfall for Vietnamese tourists.

Each side will use no more than 20 rafts to serve tourists and keep the rafts far away from the feet of the waterfalls.

In the upcoming period, Vietnamese agencies will build some facilities and renovate the Ban Gioc Waterfall, in addition to setting up a tourist service zone at the border checkpoint where travel and local specialty farm products will be displayed.

They will also set up soft barriers in the area during the pilot operation.

The Vietnamese provincial chairman asked relevant bodies to develop new travel products, organize cultural and art performances to service tourists, as well as take measures to ensure public security at the site.

The provincial transport department was told to map out a plan regulating traffic flow for large trucks passing by the pilot site.

The Ban Gioc Waterfall management board and local authorities have to establish temporary facilities to serve the pilot operation, Anh said.

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