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Tam Coc means three caves, which takes about two hours driving from
Hanoi
(110 km) to the South, and visitors may say that distance is not a matter after seating in a boat rowed by one or two local persons in Hoang Long river and see the first limestone mountains, which will run along their riverway for several kilometers.
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With 25,000 hectares and 140 km South of Hanoi, Cuc Phuong is the first
National Park
of
Vietnam
which was established in 1962. The botanical richness of the forest is impressive as it supports a wide variety of flora species and patches of primeval forest, including ancient trees with thick clusters of roots, and parasitic plants and ligneous creepers.
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You may say a church is not your interest in a Far East country and thus you will be missing one of the most remarkable religious architectures in
Vietnam.
Phat
Diem
Church, a group of different churches of stone and wood, is the centre of Catholicism in
Northern Vietnam and designed in Vietnamese style mixed harmoniously with the European Catholic traditions. There's a grave on the ground of the
church of
Mr. Tran Luc, a local Catholic lived in late 19th century who designed the whole church without taking any official course of architecture and paintings.
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