Located about 120km southwest of Hanoi, Cuc Phuong National Park in Ninh Binh becomes an eco-tourist destination attracting domestic and foreign tourists.
With Vietnam Travel, return to nature, explore Cuc Phuong National Park in Ninh Binh province and admire the interesting colors of this attractive tourist spot!
Explore Cuc Phuong National Park
Cuc Phuong National Park has an area of about 25,000 ha, adjacent to 3 provinces: Thanh Hoa, Ninh Binh and Hoa Binh, so moving here is quite easy. In particular, connecting with tourist routes such as Trang An , Tam Coc – Bich Dong , or Hang Dance makes it easier to explore Cuc Phuong National Park and attract tourists to explore. diversity of animals and plants.
1. When to travel to Cuc Phuong National Park?
In the dry season from December to May is the best time to explore Cuc Phuong National Park . At this time, the weather is cool, dry, and easy to move. 
Should visit Cuc Phuong in the dry season
You should also avoid going in the rainy season because the slippery road is filled with mosquitoes and squeezed, which will affect your trip more or less.
Especially in May, it is also the season of butterflies in Cuc Phuong forest . With the number of millions of butterflies of all colors, making this place a wonderland.
May is the butterfly season in Cuc Phuong
2. How to move to Cuc Phuong National Park
You can come to Cuc Phuong by motorbike, passenger car or self-driving car. If you go by motorbike, you will go deep into the forest.
- Travel by motorbike or car: From Hanoi, if you move along Highway 1A, to the Gioi Khau junction (Gia Vien district, 10km from Ninh Binh city), continue to move through Nho Quan town 2km and then turn Left is Cuc Phuong.
- Transfer by bus: You can go to Giap Bat bus station to Nho Quan bus route. From here, get off the bus and continue to take the bus to Cuc Phuong forest.
You can get to Cuc Phuong by many means
3. Explore Cuc Phuong National Park
Cuc Phuong National Park is a nature reserve, a special-use forest located on the boundary of 3 provinces: Ninh Binh, Hoa Binh, Thanh Hoa. With a rich diversity of flora and fauna, typical of tropical rain forests, it brings vitality and charm to this vast forest. Cuc Phuong National Park is also the first national park in Vietnam.
Poetic scene at Cuc Phuong National Park
Every year, Cuc Phuong forest – a famous ecotourism destination in the country and the region attracts a few hundred thousand visitors annually. Visiting Cuc Phuong National Park , you will learn about the rich flora and fauna, admire the beautiful natural landscape, participate in ecotourism programs, convalescence, campfire, adventure, research. save and cultural history.
So what to explore at Cuc Phuong National Park?
- Cuc Phuong Botanical Garden: is an area built to collect and plant rare species of Cuc Phuong, Vietnam and the world. The route to visit the garden is easy, with a walking distance of 3 km.
A dreamy path in the middle of nature
- Old tree: is a great tree 45m high, 5m in diameter and has a floating root system running on the ground about 20m long. From the gate, follow the road leading to an ancient tree with 3 km long. It is a seven-leaf-a-flower tree (most flowers are lost); are wooden vines with a diameter of 20-30 cm and about 100 meters long, only available at Cuc Phuong. On the way to the tree, you can observe precious birds such as red bellies, red-headed ants, white pheasants or animals such as black squirrel, red-bellied squirrels, white-rumped langurs …
Visit ancient trees that are thousands of years old
- Cuc Phuong Visitor Center: built by AusAid and FFI and this is also the first tourist education center established in Indochina. This is a tourist attraction and also a place to do all the necessary procedures before visiting the forest.
- Rescue, Biological Conservation and Development Center: Rescue, conserve and develop endangered species of wild flora and fauna in Vietnam.
- Cuc Phuong Primate Rescue Center: has the task of rescuing each individual species of rare and precious primates (white, Ha Tinh, black, Lao, Cat Ba, gray-shanked douc …)
Explore diverse fauna
- A thousand years old parashorea tree: is a large tree 45m high, 5m in diameter and has a circumference of more than 20 people. From the center follow a trail in the old forest to reach the parashorea. Visitors will meet on a giant climbing line with a root diameter of 0.5m, running 1 km across the forest and strangled Da species. Time for both departure and return for this route is almost 3 hours.
- Silver cloud peak: is the highest mountain in Cuc Phuong forest with an altitude of 648m. From the center, it is about 3 km through many old forests with many steep stone slopes. Up to the top of the mountain, in the middle of the sky, visitors can enjoy a panoramic view of the forest and plains of the three provinces of Ninh Binh, Hoa Binh and Thanh Hoa. The route to the top of silver clouds is long and rocky, with a garden guide to accompany. Travel time is about 4 hours.
Enjoy the butterfly season at Cuc Phuong
- Yen Quang Lake : The lake has a small island, on which there is an ancient temple. The lake surface is the convergence of many water birds. The lake surface is silhouetted against cliffs and forests.
Activities at Cuc Phuong National Park you can join
Walk in the primeval forest, ecotourism with community participation, watch wildlife at night, bike ride in the forest, explore biodiversity spots, ethnic music show, boating kayak, …
Walking to experience the ecosystem
The current ticket price to visit Cuc Phuong forest is 40,000 VND / time (excluding service costs such as bicycle rental, sailing, tour guide, etc.)
Discovering Cuc Phuong National Park must definitely try the activities above. And do not forget to enjoy the fascinating specialties of the mountains if you have the opportunity to experience the cuisine around this forest.
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