Van Long natural reserve is located in Gia Vien district, Ninh Binh province. It is far about 90 kilometers from Hanoi to the south. Van Long is not only a natural reserve of wetlands but also the cultural relics. Van Long is a legendary land, a beautiful area and the largest natural reserve of wetlands. Here, guests will be seated on the boat to visit Van Long. A large space with spectacular mountain ranges creates a natural wall surrounded a vast expanse of water.
Visiting Van Long Natural Reserve, floating in small basket boats, tourists have a chance to comfortably admire magnificent landscapes of Van long with a panoramic view of mountains endlessly stretching, valleys undulating, along with evergreen forests, peacefully tranquil villages, and verdant rice paddies.
Visiting Van Long Natural Reserve, floating in small basket boats, tourists have a chance to comfortably admire magnificent landscapes of Van long with a panoramic view of mountains endlessly stretching, valleys undulating, along with evergreen forests, peacefully tranquil villages, and verdant rice paddies.
Owning an area of nearly 3000 hectares, Van Long Natural Reserve has 32 stunning caves such as Ca(Fish) cave, Bong(Shadow) cave, Rua( Turtle) cave, Chanh (lemon) cave,… Notably, Fish Cave, the longest cave with 250m long, 8m high and 10m wide, is actually a breathtaking cave with its stalactites on the ceiling creating wonderful multi-shapes look like animals in the forest and water. In Fish cave, there are a great number of catfish, anabas, cuttlefish,… According to legend, ancient people caught a fish with 45 kilograms weight so that it named “Ca cave”.
Among the grottos in Van Long, Thung Doi is the highest grotto with 210 meters height above ground; the largest grotto is Bong grotto (16 meter). There have mountains’ strange name such as: Nghien Mountain, Hom Sach Mountain, Da Ban Mountain, Meo Cao Mountain, Tien Co Mountain, Voi Dung Mountain, Canh Cong Mountain, Mo Coi Mountain…
I n the Van Long forest, there has 457species of higher plants. Especially, it has 8 species listed in Vietnam Red book. Animals have 39 species, 12 species of rare animals such as Delacour's Langurand accounted largest number in Vietnam, chamois, Bengal slow Loris, Asian black bear, stump-tailed macaque… In the 9 species listed in Vietnam Red Book such as: king cobra, water monitor, oriental Rat snake, lizards…
In the dry season, Van Long is the wintering place of migratory birds from the North. There has tens of pheasants, grey heron, and hundreds of white stork, night herons… Coming to Van Long natural reserve, tourists can’t miss “Thi tree”-600 years old, Chi Le Temple, Mai Trung Temple,Le Kha Khang Temple, Duc Thanh Nguyen Temple, Dich Long cave, historic relic of Dinh Tien Hoang, Son Tu pagoda, Tap Ninh pagoda,…
Along with Hoa Lu ancient capital, Three grottoes- Pearl cave, Cuc Phuong National park, Van Long is considered as “ the bay without wave”.
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