Cuc Phuong National Park Full Day

Duration: Full Day

Destination: Endangered Primate Rescue Centre - Ancient human cave - Trekking Primary Forest

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Cuc Phuong National Park is definitely a perfect option for nature lovers, who are finding a short escape from Hanoi’s bustle and hustle for true wilderness

Tour brief

Cuc Phuong National Park covers a broad area of 22,200 ha and is nestle among three provinces: Ninh Binh, Hoa Binh and Thanh Hoa. It’s located 130km from southwest of Hanoi and 55km from northwest of Ninh Binh City.

Being the country’s largest and first national park, Cuc Phuong consists of dense forest of millennia-old trees, botanical gardens, a wide range of birds, mammals, reptiles and colorful butterflies along with two animal sanctuaries which are worth exploring.

Cuc Phuong National Park is definitely a perfect option for nature lovers, who are finding a short escape from Hanoi’s bustle and hustle for true wilderness. Known as the green lung of Northern Vietnam, Cuc Phuong National Park gets its fame as a large natural museum with rich ecosystem, conservation center of endangered species; as well as home to Muong ethnic minority with their unique culture.

Itinerary

Cuc Phuong national park is the oldest national park in Vietnam. Located only 120km southwest of Hanoi and nestled between the provinces of Ninh Binh, Hoa Binh and Thanh Hoa, Cuc Phuong boasts engaging cultural and wildlife heritage and enchanting scenery. Magnificent Limestone Mountains rise up majestically from the green rice-terraces and traditional stilt houses of the Muong hill-tribe. Covered in a dense forest they form a habitat for some of Asia's rarest species. It is no wonder that researchers, naturalists, enthusiasts and conservationists alike are drawn to this corner of the World.

Pick you up at 8.00am at hotel in Hanoi, and then depart for Cuc Phuong national park towards to the Southwest of Hanoi, it takes about 2,5 hours(110km) to get to Cuc Phuong national park (It was officially opened in 1960 as the first national park in Vietnam).

We will firstly visit the Endangered Primate Rescue Centre is a non-profit organization dedicated to the rehabilitation, breeding, research, and conservation of endangered primates, and to the protection of their habitats.

After lunch, we keep going into the park central, stop to discover ancient human cave, have lunch at house-on-stilted in the park central.

Taking a short trek into the National Park for sightseeing and learn more of fauna and flora in this oldest forest of Vietnam. We will come back to the Park Centre, then taking Van to be backing Hanoi.