Cuc Phuong National Park HQ

We just finished the „2 days wildlife experience“ including trekking, animal spotting and jungle camping together with our guides Luong and Lang. We had the best time with them hiking through the forest and learning about plants, animals and traditional medicine of the Muong. After putting up our tents Lang and Luong cooked a delicious dinner for us over the fire, boiling vegetables and tofu in long bamboo tubes. The highlight was the night safari, where we spotted huge spiders, frogs, house centipede, flying squirrel, a civet and more. Luong and Lang are two very friendly and funny guides with an immense knowledge. We think the price of 175.- $ dollar per person is fair for all you will get + supporting the national park with this activity. We can totally recommend it!

Cúc Phương National Park (Vietnamese: Vườn quốc gia Cúc Phương) is located in Ninh Bình Province, in Vietnam's Red River Delta. Cuc Phuong was Vietnam's first national park and is the country's largest nature reserve. The park is one of the most important sites for biodiversity in Vietnam. The park covers portions of the Northern Vietnam lowland rain forests and Northern Indochina subtropical forests ecoregions.[2] Primates in the park include macaques, gibbon, François's leaf monkey and slow loris. Other mammals include bats, porcupine, flying squirrel, small striped squirrel, belly-banded squirrel, and the rare black giant squirrel. In the past the park was home to Asiatic black bears, wild dogs, elephants, rhinos, and tigers, but over hunting and lack of prey have most led to the loss of these species. Leopards, clouded leopards, and jungle cats may still be present in the park.[1] Bird species include bar-backed partridge, scaly-breasted partridge, silver pheasant, red junglefowl, grey peacock-pheasant, laughingthrushes, red-vented barbet, green-eared barbet, scimitar-billed babblers, brown boobook, scarlet minivet, racket-tailed drongos, racket-tailed treepie, white-winged blue magpie. Migrant species include thrushes, flycatchers, tits, finches, pipits amongst others. Hornbills can also be spotted in the forest.[1] An endemic subspecies of sub-terranean cave fish is also found in the park.[1] It is also the type locality of many invertebrate species including: Zaxiphidiopsis bazyluki. Flora in the park includes multi-layered canopy, with a diversity of trees (some showing cauliflory) and large specimens growing up to 70m in height (illustrated), with labelled Tetrameles nudiflora and Carya sinensis. The flora consists of some 2000 recorded species[3] with lianas and epiphytes including orchids and ferns such as Asplenium, with amazingly long leaves. The park also contains plants used for such practicalities as spices and medicines as well as edible fruits, nuts and shoots.[1] Tourism Cúc Phương National Park is one of the most popular nature tourist destinations in Vietnam. Tens of thousands of Vietnamese and a steady stream of foreign tourists visit the park each year. Lodging and restaurant facilities are available at the park's entrance and within the park. A paved road cuts into the park and a number of paths for hiking are maintained. Park rangers patrol Cuc Phuong and provide guided tours for a fee.

Beautiful nature that still preserved with many hiking and and bicycling routes for guests for experience. Exciting sites to check out like the primate rescue center, the prehistoric man cave, thousand years old tree and even a 250 millions year old dinosaur fossil :)

The tour guide was in rush, the park is closing at 5 pm ,nit 7 pm as in the official schedule on maps. We saw a few monkeys in rush (20 minutes) and turtles in 10 minutes and this was the entire tour. Also, we were het there by electric tuk tuk but we had to come back by foot. A dissapointing experience experience PS: We traveled in a lot of Asia coubtries where we saw a lot of sanctuaryies. This was the worst experience

Should come here around late April until mid May cuz it’s butterfly season. There is a restaurant when you go into the forest. They have good chicken but pricey

Beautiful national Park, But.. 1- we got robbed. We parked our motorbike on the road side just at the entrance of the trekking path to the dinosaur fossil. While we were hiking, someone just forced the motorbike seat to open it, and when we went back, the seat was a bit broken and there wasn't our speaker inside anymore. So please be aware of this and take care of your belongs. We reported this to the staff, they didn't even try to understand where happened (near that stop there is a ranger house) just said we don't have camera and we'll say to the director. 2- ok they suggest to take a guide for the trekking, but we are experienced hikers so didn't need. If you are planning to go looking for the dinosaur fossil, be aware that once you turn on the left from the main path, the story changes a lot. The path is not maintained AT ALL! Which is a pity considering that you are paying a ticket for entering in the national park. The rest of the path is fine.

Highlight of our trip to Vietnam, we had an incredible experience. The park is lush jungle which is incredible just to drive through. The prehistoric cave is amazing, definitely bring a flashlight to explore. It was really inspiring to visit the monkeys and pangolins that have been rescued from horrible circumstances. A guided tour of the animal sanctuary is included with the ticket and the guide was knowledgeable, passionate, and spoke great English. Would definitely come back and do more hiking etc. highly recommend

Parking is free - the 10k scooter parking is just a made up thing… just park on the massive parking lot and not the „scooter parking“ Far away from all the big tourist groups!! Come by own scooter or car as its far to the different hikes… Perfect day trip for hiking lovers comin from Tam Coc or Ninh Binh. Totally worth the 60k. The main loop is well maintained. Be aware its a 40km return drive within the park. Follow along the Song Boi River to get there its a couple of km more but BEAUTIFUL!!!