Lake in Hanoi Vietnam

 Wide to over 500 ha West Lake, the largest in the city, the old was a former Red River left over the river has changed.
According to bibliography, the 11th century, this lake go down in history with Dam Dam named (misty dress). Back to the 15th century known as the West Lake.
West Lake has long been a landscape of Thang Long - Hanoi Vietnam. Tran Ly dynasty, the king has made many palaces around the lake as a place to vacation and recreation. Currently the lake is 61 houses, pagodas, temples, covered.
Hoan Kiem Lake
Four seasons lake so the lake was called Luc Thuy Nguyen, very large lake, to run from Hang Dao and Hang bananas through the Red River. With sword legend Le Loi pay, more known as Lake Hoan Kiem. Then they are taken to place the naval training should also be known as Lake Water Division. Subsequently, the lake was dammed to prevent the two north-called Ta Vong lake, south of the lake Huu Vong.
In Lake, north of a mound, the tool called Jade Mountain, a hill south of the mountain again called Turtle because ancient capital regulation: an inch-called high mountains (the highest need, author of paint) . In this mountain Ngoc Ngoc Son temple. On this mountain there Turtle Tower Turtle.
Truc Bach Lake
Ho is still part of West Lake, in particular because Doan Ke Thien Co Ngu embankment (17th century) which split into two lakes, one large one small. To try to read off the bed after the Co Ngu. On 16/10/1958, Uncle Ho visited the site and named the Thanh Nien Road.
Ancient lake south of the village Truc Yen Trinh Giang (1729-1740) built a palace called the Bamboo Forest Hospital, after a location where an offer of the female offenders, they get to live silk weaving. Silk weaving is beautiful, people love to use called the Truc village silk (silk White kanji meaning) so that the name of the lake. Between a small island, on a crane Children temple legend from the Ly.
Thien Quang Lake
Lake is located right in front of the main port of Thong Nhat Park. Hu also called Contact Cards, later named Thien Quang village in the southeast that call, often read out a boat off Quang.
Previously large lakes, spread to the Tran Quoc Toan, Kieu, Nguyen Binh Khiem informed now and still eat all the Bay Mau Lake. The years 1920-1925, the lake was filled gradually to town.

Bay Mau Lake
Lake is located in Thong Nhat Park. Someone said to form a large lake named 7. Actually this watch up to 30 samples wide. In 1960, the lake was deepened, improved simultaneously with the construction of the Unified Park.
Ho has two islands: Unification is a garden with a bridge to the port of Le Duan. As Peace Island, near the eastern shore, is a cool, quiet for guests to relax. To take the boat to the island.
By 1996, Hanoi has more than 40 small lakes, but the process of urbanization has been filled to many. Now there are several small lakes in the inner city as Lake Ba Model, The Human lake, Lake Street, Lake Director, Giang Vo Lake, Ngoc Khanh Lake, Lake Thanh Nhan, Lake Success, Thu Le Lake, Lake Social Forum.
In the suburbs there are many beautiful lakes such as Ghost Road (Thanh Tri), Van Tri (East England), Dong Guan (Soc Son), are planning to develop into major tourist attractions. Hanoi now has two large lakes than West Lake, which is Lake Stream Two and Dong Mo-Ngai Son Lake.
Two Spring Lake is the common name of two streams Yen Cu and old Dragon Bridge before creating the artificial lake, width 1,000 ha, 50 million m3 capacity, at the foot of the mountain range east of Ba Vi. This is the Area of ​​river water, lake water surface area of ​​two large double springs Westlake. Two Spring Lake has natural beauty, a town 16km Shanxi.
Ho Dong Mo-Ngai Son: The reservoir on the mountain, Dong Mo-Ngai Son is large irrigation works the late 1960s, Shanxi than a town 10km south of the lake and stream two nearly 20km to the east.
Hang from the river source water that is retained in the lake 17km long, 4km wide average, water surface area of ​​1.300ha, contains nearly 100 million m3 of water flooding and limited to four field Phuc Tho district, Thach, Quoc Oai, U.S. Chapter. The lake was not flooded on 60 hectares of hilly land, planting perennials. Today, the lakeside hotels sprang up to serve the 36-hole golf course.