Tour provides night-life experience at Cuc Phuong National Park

In a move to meet the increasing travel need and bring fresh and interesting experiences, Cuc Phuong National Park launched a night tour on May 4.

The wildlife night tour is open from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. every day of the week, with the last tour of the day starting at 8:45 p.m. The tours span about an hour, traveling by electric car on a 5km journey.

The night tour costs 100,000 VND (3.94 USD) for adults and 50,000 VND for kids.

According to Pham Kien Cuong, director of the Centre for Environmental Education and Service in Cuc Phuong National Park, the tour targets to enhance public awareness of environmental education, and their understanding about nature and wildlife.

To ensure the tour does not affect creatures' natural habitat, there are only about 100 visitors per session, and they can only visit certain areas in the forest, he added.

(Photo: Cuc Phuong National Park)

Starting from the park’s creative space for children, visitors take on a journey traveling along the forest trail and passing through rows of ancient trees by electric car.

During the trip, visitors can immerse themselves in the scenery of millions of fireflies sparkling in the forest, and watch animals such as sika deers and deers, and diverse insects.

Visitors can also see pangolins, striped civets, wild cats, otters, and lorises. As these are nocturnal animals, the tour provides a perfect time for participants to easily observe and learn about these animals.

After about 30-minute travelling, visitors will enter the ancient forest where they can enjoy the fresh air and serenity in the middle of the night. They will then come back to the entrance gate and complete the journey.

In recent years, Cuc Phuong National Park has become a favourite destination for both domestic and foreign tourists. It has been honoured as leading Asia's national park by the World Travel Awards for the fifth consecutive year, from 2019 to 2023.

Cuc Phuong National Park has been honoured as leading Asia's national park by the World Travel Awards for the fifth consecutive year, from 2019 to 2023.

Covering 22,000 hectares of land in 14 communes of four districts in the three provinces of Ninh Binh, Hoa Binh, and Thanh Hoa, the national park boasts enchanting scenery and offers a stunning range of biodiversity.

The Cuc Phuong National Park is a tropical forest characterized by the ecological transitional between limestone mountains and common mountains. The forest area is mainly composed of layers of an evergreen tropical forest in the lowlands (under 500m) and low mountains (under 500m) that came from rocks and limestone. The types of flora and fauna in the area exhibit the characteristics of karst topography and biodiversity.

It has long served as a research centre for many conservation organisations, both national and international. According to surveys, Cuc Phuong has 2,234 floral species of 931 genera and 231 families. Among these are 430 species of medicinal plants and 229 species of edible plants. 57 species are listed in the Vietnam Red Book of endangered species and also in the IUCN Red Book.