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HANOI - PERFUME PAGODA

Tour code: CHUH-1

Overview:

Sixty kilometres southwest of Hanoi the Red River Delta ends abruptly where steep-sided limestone hills rise from the paddy fields. The most easterly of these forested spurs shelters north Vietnam’s most famous pilgrimage site, the Perfume Pagoda, Chua Huong, hidden in the folds of Ha Tay Province’s Mountain of the Perfumed Traces, and said to be named after spring blossoms that scent the air. The Perfume Pagoda, one of more than thirty peppering these hills, occupies a spectacular grotto over 50m high. The start of the journey is an hour’s ride by row-boat up a silent, flooded valley among karst hills where fishermen and farmers work their inundated fields. From where the boat drops you (memorize your boat’s number as there are hundreds of identical craft here), a stone-flagged path shaded by gnarled frangipani trees brings you to the seventeenth-century Chua Thien Chu

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08:00 We start driving to Perfume Mountain, which is home to one of the country's most beautiful landscapes. Pagodas, shrines, sanctuaries and grottoes nestle in the limestone relief of Huong Son, surrounded by a tropical forest. Arriving at Huong Son, we board a simple boat and travel the Yen Vi River through an idyllic rural setting of rocks and tranquil paddy fields until reaching Thien Tru Pagoda. From here, we take cable car to a legendary world of pagodas and vistas. Afterward, we do the same road on the way back: cable and boat ride.
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