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Cuc Phuong National Park is stablished in 1962, located in Ninh Binh Province. Cuc Phuong is the oldest national park in Vietnam. It is one of Vietnam’s most beautiful and important protected areas and easily accessible from Hanoi - only a 2 ½ hour journey by road

26/2/10 - Ba Be National Park is 240km northwest of Hanoi, it takes about 6 hours to drive there along a mixture of highway and then windy back roads. The countryside along the way is hilly and the roads were lined with a lot of school kids on bicycles. The country was dryer than that around Cuc Phuong and there had been a drought in the area over recent times.

Many of the towns we passed through were dusty, frontier places. The eatery that we stopped at for lunch had enough Vodka stockpiled in boxes to keep half of Russia happy. Some folks around towns like Bak Kan obviously had big drinking problems.

Highlights: Hanoi - Cuc Phuong National park - Mai Chau - Ha Long - Saigon - Cu Chi - Tay Ninh - Nam Cat Tien National Park
Duration: 10 days/ 9 nights
Trip start: Hanoi  
Trip end: Saigon
Tour type: Adventure Tours, Cruise Tours

Cuc Phuong - the first National Park of Vietnam

Cuc Phuong is the first National Park of Vietnam, which was declared in 1962 with 25,000 hectares.

The botanical richness of the forest supports a wide variety of flora species and patches of primeval forest, including ancient trees  with thick clusters of roots, parasitic plants and ligneous creepers.