Perfume Pagoda Full Day From Hanoi

Duration: 1 Days

Destination: Hanoi City - Perfume Pagoda - Thien Tru Pagoda

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Perfume Pagoda is absolutely worth visiting if you are interested in exploring Vietnam’s culture and religion. Located about 70 kilometers from Hanoi’s center, this complex is a series of shrines built into a limestone mountain.

Tour brief

If you are making a Hanoi travel plan, you should definitely consider visiting Perfume Pagoda from Hanoi. It is a popular destination for both religious pilgrims and tourists. Perfume Pagoda is absolutely worth visiting if you are interested in exploring Vietnam’s culture and religion. Located about 70 kilometers from Hanoi’s center, this complex is a series of shrines built into a limestone mountain. During the Lunar New Year, thousands of pilgrims make their way to this spiritual site to pray for blessings and good fortune.

The Perfume Pagoda is one of the highlights of the Hanoi area and one of the most important religious sites in Buddhist Vietnam. Every spring, after the Vietnamese New Year, thousands of Vietnamese pilgrims come here to pray for all the health and prosperity they need to get them through the year. The pagoda itself is built into limestone cliffs and can only be reached by boat and foot, as there are no roads into this area. You will glide along scenic waterways and walk up steep mountain paths visiting the pagodas and temples that were built in this area over the last centuries.

Itinerary

A short drive from Hanoi, you can visit one of the most important religious Buddhist sites of Vietnam. Perfume (Huong) pagoda is a cultural religion in Vietnam, including dozens of Buddhist temples, pagodas. It is a land with harmony between the real and dream, traveling to explore Huong Son by waterway you will pass through a wonderful, peaceful stream.

A day trip to Perfume pagoda, the important religious Buddhist of Vietnam.

7.30-8.00 pick up at your hotel. We spend about two hours drive through the picturesque countryside and back roads to the village of Duc, where we get on a small boat for a one hour trip up Yen stream to Thien Tru pagoda. The boat journeys down a narrow flowing stream fringed by rice fields, temples and grass and you will have the option to stop and visit some of these temples before heading to Huong Tich cave.

You may trek up (or take cable car to the mountain) to Perfume pagoda (top of the mountain), enjoy the spectacular landscape and learn more about typical Vietnamese Buddhist religious.

Descending and have lunch at restaurant. Then get back to Thien Tru quay to visit more beautiful and precious sculptures, taking photos, worshiping, getting on boat again back to the wharf and drive back to your hotel in Hanoi.

Optional for Cable car only 10 minutes to Huong Tich cave (the main Perfume pagoda).