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Visitors who want to Ninh Binh day trip in only one day can choose the paths as Tam Coc – Bich Dong, Trang An – Bai Dinh or Thung Nham.
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Tam Coc – Bich Dong
Tam Coc – Bich Dong is a famous beautiful scenic spot located in Ninh Hai Commune, Hoa Lu district. It is also known as “Ha Long Bay on land” or “Nam Thien đệ nhị động” (the second most beautiful cave in Vietnam). This resort has a natural area of 350 hectares, situated 2 km from National Highway 1A, 7 km from Ninh Binh city center and 9 km from Tam Diep district.
If having only one day, first of all, travelers should visit Bich Dong Pagoda – “Nam Thiên đệ nhị động” to be able to see the whole scene from above. In addition to enjoying the fresh air of the temple in the morning, tourists can visit a landscape and architecture of the “Nam Thien đệ nhị động”. Bich Dong Pagoda was built in Tam Han style, three buildings are not the adjacent nut in three levels along the mountain side from the bottom creating three separate temples which are called Ha (Lower), Trung (Middle) and (Thuong) Upper temple.
In the afternoon, visitors can travel by boat from Dinh The wharf to explore Tam Coc. Tam Coc means three caves: Ca Cave, Hai Cave and Ba Cave. It will take about 2-3 hours to cruise down the Ngo Dong river and go through the three caves as well as the other stops along the way. Tam Coc prettily surprised with towering limestone mountains along with the interesting shapes of the caves.
The appropriate time to go Tam Coc – Bich Dong is in the spring and early summer. For those photographers, both professional and amateur, the period from the late April and the beginning of May is an ideal time for hunting pictures of ripening grain season.
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Trang An – Bai Dinh
Bai Dinh, about 15 km Ninh Binh city to the northwest, is the largest pagoda in Vietnam. Coming to this place, visitors will be immersed in the sacred space of ancient Bai Dinh temple on Dinh Mountain and new Bai Dinh one – the largest temple in Vietnam with many records established, such as the temple owning the heaviest and the highest Shakyamuni Buddha bronze statue in Vietnam, the temple having the biggest Tam The statues in Vietnam …
Apart from that, tourists can admire the monumental works such as the Maitreya Buddha, or walking watching Arhat corridor extending in each ladder to the highest point of Bai Dinh Pagoda. Not only looking for the spiritual and cultural center, visitors are also satisfied since this place is the convergence of deferent factors of Buddhist studies, history, architecture …
In the afternoon, going downstream winding Sao Khe stream through spectacular limestone mountains, the primeval forest and reed forest, visitors will explore the system of 9 caves with unique names such as Toi (Dark) cave, Sang (Light) cave, Nau Ruou (Cooking Wine) Cave, Ba Giot (Three Drops) cave … Whenever going through a cave, tourists will feel like going into a place where there are only shimmering, magical stalactites blended with rock and water.
Tourism Trang An – Bai Dinh is well suited in the spring because of the nice weather. Tourists should avoid the time of late summer and early autumn (August and September) because of the typhoon season and the river water rises.
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Thung Nham
Thung Nham Bird Park is in Ninh Hai commune , Hoa Lu district, Ninh Binh province. Covering an area of approximately 334 hectares, this place, in addition to providing familiar travel services such as sightseeing in the flooded forest, primary forest…, also offers various other forms such as hiking, visiting gardens, fishing. Thung Nham is also known as Thung Chim by this place still preserve the pristine mountains and forests with rich flora and fauna diversity. Thung Nham Bird Park is home to many species of nesting waterfowl such as storks, herons, cauldron, earth eagle …
If using only one day in Thung Nham, travelers should visit But (Buddha) Cave, Vai Gioi cave and the bird garden. Some other attractions in Thung Nham include thousand-year-old tree, moving banyan tree, the valley of love …
To be involved and to look at the bird park scene of flocks and white cauldron flying in swarms, tourists should visit in the fall and about at about 5pm.
The specialties that visitors can not ignore in Ninh Binh: burned rice, goat, Thung Nham shrimp sauce, crab roasted with Wild Metal leaves, boiled snails…
