Cuc Phuong National Park, The first pristine forests of Vietnam
Cuc Phuong National Park (Cuc Phuong) belongs to three provinces of Ninh Binh, Hoa Binh and Thanh Hoa. It is situated on 20 ° 14 '20 ° 24' north latitude, 105 ° 29 'to 105 ° 44' E east. The main entrance to the forest is located on Nho Quan district, Ninh Binh province. Cuc Phuong forest fauna and flora are extremely rich and diverse, characterized by tropical rainforest. Forests have many values of natural landscapes, ecological diversity, and cultural entertainment, history, the eco-tourism sites and famous attractions.
Cuc Phuong National Park was Vietnam's first forest, was established in July 1962. Forest has a total area 22.200ha, ¾ rock mount which is higher than 300 to 600m above sea level. Climate is tropical monsoon climate; annual average temperature is about 24.70C. Forest is prestine, contains many mysteries, the forest has many rare animals and plants, many caves with many vestiges of the Old. So, Cuc Phuong forest is not only suitable for visitors, but also suitable for biologists, archeology, geography.
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Eco-Diversification
With characteristics of a tropical monsoon climate, evergreen trees, the forest flora of Cuc Phuong is very rich. The recent survey data released that Cuc Phuong has over 2000 vascular plant species, of which discovered 118 rare species, 240 species can be used as dye color, 433 species of medicinal plants, 229 species of edible plants, many species listed in Vietnam's Red Book. Moreover, it has the giant trees like “Sau”, “Dang”, and especially “Cho Ngan Nam”-the goal of many trips.
Fauna here are no less diverse than the flora, including 117 mammals, over 300 species of birds, 33 reptiles, 16 amphibians, 65 species, and nearly 2000 kinds of insects. Including many precious animals such as bears, horses, wild big, tiger, panther, mink, monkeys, langurs ... Especially the forest also has half - natural animals like deer, monkeys, ...) for scientists to research and for visitors to see and fell the nature of this place.
With the characteristics of their biodiversity, Cuc Phuong National Forest has become a research center, providing rare plant species, with high economic value, serving the needs of the country plantation
Attractions:
To Cuc Phuong, visitors can travel to interesting destinations in the forest including
botanical garden Cuc Phuong,Cuc Phuong visitor center, animal rescue center in Cuc Phuong, “The old” cave Con Moong, trees for thousands of years, ancient trees, Silver Cloud vertices, the Yen Quang Lake, Pho Ma Cave.
The Old Cave
The Old Cave has its length of 100m, from the foot of the hill is 45m in height, lie within a dark cave. It takes 45 minutes to go in, passengers must use the flashlight and prepare incense, candles. It was excavated in 1966, has three compartments, the cave toward the southwest, and open outer compartment, which traces primitive people. The archaeological evidence include stone axes, stone knives, shells, many animal bones, animal teeth, especially the three tombs with the fossilized intact skeleton.Research showed that the skeleton is 7500 years ago. In the cave there are many bats, so the cave is also called the “Dang” cave.
Con Moong cave
Con Moong cave is located in the Cuc Phuong National Forest, belonging to Thanh Yen Commune, Thach That district, Thanh Hoa province. Cave was excavated in 1976, the cave has a length of nearly 40m, 8.41m high. By studying the rocks in the cave, the scientists showed that the cave is 15 thousand years old marking and recording
the development of human history. In addition, there are also some graves containing human remains.