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| A scene in Trang An |
Trang An cave tourist area is associated with the relics of Hoa Lu Ancient Capital. Dinh Bo Linh came to the throne in 968 and chose Hoa Lu, a rugged mountainous region as the capital. Here, he built the palaces, based on the mountain to defense and turned the rugged mountain into the fortress isolated from the outside. When building the citadel, King Dinh Tien Hoang had exploited the natural advantages to serve people. The limestone mountain ranges were connected with each other thanks to the artificial walls to erect a unique and solid capital. It currently still preserves the large number of historical evidences of a capital with three successive dynasties, namely Dinh, Le, Ly. It can be said that the tourist complex is one of the fascinating historical - cultural - spiritual - ecological tourist attractions in Ninh Binh. Trang An tourist complex is situated in Thanh Tri Thien Tao mountain range of Hoa Lu Ancient Capital. Here, the mountains surrounded 4 sides with caves hiding under mountain each. The wonder is that these caves are connected with each other to create a Hoa Lu Ancient Capital retaining the solid defense. The towering mountains are observatories as well as protecting walls of the citadel. The time has been able to undermine the artificial architectural works, but the citadel still forever exists. It is also the reason why Hoa Lu Ancient Capital has been called "Stone Ancient Capital". Many archaeologists going to Trang An cave ecological complex consider it as a "outdoor geological museum" because Trang An complex is surrounded by bow-shaped limestone mountains among the wetland low-lying area. The cracks from the limestone mountains reflect geological movement creating flows inside the caves. According to scientists, the famous karst caves in Hoa Lu limestone mountains- Ninh Binh and adjacent regions four thousand years old are regarded as a "Halong Bay on land" as today. The most prominent in the system of caves is type of horizontal water caves through the heart of the great mountains and regularly flooded.
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| Trang An Tourist Area |
These caves convey convective water flowing throughout creeks between creating the line connecting the caves together. Exploring caves in Trang An tourist complex is always indispensable sites in Vietnam tour packages to Ninh Binh attracting the large number of tourists at home and internationally. A magnificent tourist complex Hoa Lu - Tam Coc - Bich Dong, an important part of Hoa Lu Ancient Capital heritage site with King Dinh Tien Hoang Temple and Le Hoan Temple along with Trang An ecotourism complex is indispensable tourist rendezvous in the system of national tourist areas in Vietnam tour. As planned, Trang An ecotourism complex retains 9 waterway tourist routes and 2 road routes. The road route retains the length of 1.6 km into Tran Temple (also known as Noi Lam Temple) starting at Cay Bang wharf. It is actually interesting hiking route through 3 consecutive passes. The hiking trails are currently built with the broad stone sidesteps. On the way to Tran Temple (worshiping God Quy Minh - 18th Hung King), 7 octagonal ironwood buildings are built in order to serve the relaxation of trekking tourists. The waterway tourist routes combine hiking with excursions by boats across 13 caves to historic sites as the closed roadmap. It is these unique features make Ninh Binh travel become much more attractive. Ninh Binh has built many projects and building items in Trang An Eco-tourism complex so far. In particular, the resort is home to about 30 caves which are not dredged to serve tourist activities. Yet the number of tourists to Bai Dinh - Trang An tourist complex has been constantly increasing since 2009. In detail, the number of tourists setting foots on Ninh Binh was over 3 million people in 2011. Thanks to the tourist development, tens of thousands of workers in Gia Vien district, Hoa Lu district, Ninh Binh city have a chance to participate in tourism services such as boating, restaurants, motels... In addition, many areas have been awakened the potential of agricultural crops, fungi production or traditional villages such as embroidery, pottery or stone carving, etc. Ninh Binh tour with highlight of Bai Dinh - Trang An, Hoa Lu Ancient Capital and Tam Coc - Bich Dong has become one of the impressive destinations in Vietnam, which strongly influences the development of tourism in the country. Tourists going to Ninh Binh actually have the opportunity to be immersed in the peaceful scenery of the wonderful tourist site. Trang An Eco-tourism complex will certainly be one of the fascinating Ninh Binh attractions in particular and in Vietnam in general. Tourists should once come here to enjoy the grandeur of the mountains, the daydreaming of lakes, spectacular caves together with immense blue sky. All mingles together offering tourists the passionate and poetic feelings among the wonderful natural scenery. The tourist complex significantly contributes to promote Ninh Binh tourism in particular and Vietnam tourism in general closer to tourists at home and internationally.
