Riding to Cuc Phuong National Park

Cuc Phuong National Park is the oldest and largest national park in Vietnam. The park is home to the vast amount of local plants and animals which represent a crucial source of biodiversity.

Covering an area of 25,000 ha of three provinces: Ninh Binh, Hoa Binh, and Thanh Hoa, Cuc Phuong is the first and largest nature reserve of Vietnam. The park is a typical tropical rainforest that hosts many diverse and unique flora and fauna. This old forest is the natural habitat of more than 2000 plant species and 2600 species of animals.

Established in 1962, Cuc Phuong is the oldest national park in Vietnam. Located only 120km southwest of Hanoi, the park boasts an engaging cultural and wildlife heritage and enchanting scenery. Cuc Phuong National Park has become one of the most important biological sites in Vietnam.

Placed in two karst mountain ranges, the Cuc Phuong national park’s landscape is a superbly abundant ecosystem. Cuc Phuong Park is located in the place where the mighty limestone mountains stand up majestically above the beautiful rice terraces and the unique traditional house of Muong people. Cuc Phuong National Park is also famous for its numerous mountain cave landscapes. The park includes mountains and lavish valleys. With the impressive heights varying from 150 meters to 656 meters, the karst formations create plenty of limestone caves, a lot of which can be accessed easily for exploration.

Cuc Phuong Park offers plenty of jungle routes which attract many tourists from all over the world.

Tourists can go alone in some popular trekking routes, but other routes require tourists to go with local people or a park scout.

Overnight camping in Muong Village can be the most strikingly adventurous and interesting experience for tourists when visiting Cuc Phuong.

Tourists will also have a chance to see with their own eyes some rare species listed in Vietnam’s Red Book and those featured by the Cuc Phuong jungle. This park site is also an ideal destination for bird-watching as many flocks of tropical birds choose this forest to be their home and favorite nesting spot. In butterfly season from April to May, tourists will be blessed to witness the stunning landscape that comes from thousands of flying multicolored butterflies.

Tourists can also visit the Cuc Phuong Museum, a famous place displaying specimens of insects, butterflies, bears, leopards, monkeys…This museum is regarded as a useful study site for students, experts, researchers, and tourists to earn more academic knowledge.