Van Long Wetland Nature Reserve – A Natural Gateway for your trip in Northern Vietnam

1. Overview about Van Long Wetland Nature Reserve

Northern Vietnam provides distinctive landscapes to international and domestic travelers. Van Long Wetland Nature Reserve is a highlight tourist attraction especially for ecosystem nature enthusiasts. This place preseves a large number of floras and faunas which make the nature lovers want to learn and discover. Tourists come here to immerse and heal themselves by nature. Additionally, Its also a good way to escape the hustling and bustling of capital Hanoi.

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Van Long Wetland Nature Reserve is located in Gia Van commune, Gia Vien district, Ninh Binh province. This natural wonder is conveniently located a mere 80 kilometers away from the bustling Hanoi capital city. It has attracted dozen of visitors every year as Van Long comprises many local activities to experience. In this article, we will share informative travel advices at this special locacation for you.

2. Entrance Fee of Van Long Wetland Nature Reserve

Traveling to this tranquility Van Long wetland nature reserve is very reasonable. Many travelers have selected this destination as a healing place for their vacation. You might see the price for tickets to enter in the following table below:

3. The imissable experinences in Van Long Nature Reserve

3.1. Visiting around Van Long lake by boat

Experience a cruise trip around Van Long Lake is an exciting experience as you can feel the calmness of this place. Moreover, fresh air surrounds this place will bring the positive energy in your travel. Sommetimes, you might see some rare animals through your boat trip such as Delacour’s langur, one of the world’s most endangered primates, as well as a variety of bird species, including kingfishers, herons, and egrets.

In addition, you also will enjoy to see majestic limestone mountains around while traveling by boat . Nature never makes us disapointed because we always want fresh oxyzen from nature in our life. Visitors can contemplate the calm and quiet water surface like a gargantuan mirror. The water is so clear that we can see layers of mosses and algae on the bottom.

3.2. Exploring magnificent caves

Caves exploration is another adventurous activity for visitors when you come to Van Long wetland. There are around 1000 caves become impressive attractions here. You definitely will be unhappy if you don’t visit our recommended caves such as Ca Cave, Rua Cave, Bong Cave and Chanh Cave. Especially, one of the greatest and pritest cave in Van Long wetland is Hang Ca cave is 250m long, 8m high, 10m wide. This cave is unique in its way: half-submerged, half-dried, with a lot of fish swimming up inside.

Your experience will be memorable when you make time to travel around the caves here. How excited it must be for your trip. We think you should visit this place in a dry season so you can disover these caves smoothly.

3.3. Discovering historical temples

We live in a world where all fascinating history must preserve and maintain for different generations to learn, explore and develop. It shows the beautiful culture image to people. Van Long Wetland tourist attraction comnprises wonderful sacred temple or complex pagodas to discover beside all natural wonders. You definitely shouldn’t miss out Thanh Mau temple, Thanh Son temple, Dich Long Temple… so on.  These locations are popular among tourists who are interested in both sightseeing and seeking inner peace.

3.4. Try tasty local gastronomy

Trying delicious local cuisine is top things to do in travel bucket list of travellers around the world. This is a way to delve to the culture passionately and each region in Vietnam has its distinctive foods to enjoy.  It will be regretful if you don’t try cuisines in Ninh Binh because it have a wide range of diverse tastes. In this article, we share some local foods for your stay in Van Long wetland such as grilled snakehead fish, Ninh Binh crispy rice, Ninh Binh goat meat, Ninh Binh mountain snails, Kim Son raw Nhech fish salad, …etc.

3.5. Learning and experiencing the diversity of floras and faunas

Van Long Wetland has attracted dozen nature enthusiasts come and explore the biodiversity of floras and faunas here. With stunning landscapes and rich wildlifes, this destination promise bring many hidden and interesting adventures to visitors.

Van Long wetland is a wonderful place preserve many rare or even endangered creatures.  Discovering the rich bird population is one of the highlight activities here. It has over 100 different bird species with extremely prominent names such as pond herons, white storks, kingfishers, etc. Exploring the diversity of bird is a must-do list here.

4. How to travel to Van Long Wetland Reserve

Road Infrastructures in Vietnam are improving and developing in Vietnam nowadays even in mountainous areas. Traveling to Ninh Binh becomes enjoyable with some convenient ways for visitors plan the trips to Van Long Wetland. We have some exellent options below for you to choose:

4.1. Travel By Private Car

The safety and comfortable way to travel from Hanoi to Van Long Wetland in Ninh Binh is by car. At Explore Vietnam Travel (https://explorevietnam.com.vn/) , we offer car services in all cities and provinces so you can contact us anytime to find the best transfer vehicles. Depending on the quantity of your group, we will arrange a suitable car. This top choice of travellers brings enjoyable trip exploration as you can stop any places on the way to capture photos. Our friendly chauffeurs will pick up and drop off at your requested destinations. He will wait you patiently while you take your time for sightseeing.

4.2. Travel By Bus

Bus is another option of vehicle for your trip from Hanoi to Van Long Wetland. This is the choice for budget-travelers. There are many tourist buses nowadays to drive you from Hanoi to Ninh Binh, you can contact travel agents physically or online for this information. You can enjoy the natural landscapes through the window. This cheap option will help you save money for future experiences in Vietnam.

5. Travel Tips to Wetland Nature Reserve

Finally, the article is going to an end with usfeul tips which you might consider when you tend to visit Van Long Wetland. Below shows our informative tips to your vacaction here:

– You should bring hats, umbrellas and suncream for the hot and humidity weather in summer

– You can give a tip to boatman around 50,000 VNĐ for his excellent job to guide you here.

– Bring good and quality camera or binoculars follow your trip to take wildlife and nature photos especially the diversity of birds.

– A boat trip can only carry around 3 – 4 people which is a maximum quantity.