Hoa Lu Ancient Town, Ninh Binh

In order to feel the bustling atmosphere of Hoa Lu ancient town in the classic scene, visitors should come here in festival time or lunar new year holiday. At those times, there are many activities that you can experience.

Especially, in spring festivals, under the cozy and warm weather, it is very convenient to visit the traditional cultural craft villages in the ancient town.

Boosting tourism, Ninh Binh has explored a variety of transportation means like bus, taxi, motorbike, car, etc. to move in the travel destinations. Departing from Hanoi, you just only take a bus from Giap Bat station to move to Ninh Binh city.

Ninh Binh is located near National Highway 1A, very convenient for visitors from the North, the Middle and the South. Visitors can take a bus on route Phap Van - Cau Gie expressway to Ninh Binh, then can come to Hoa Lu ancient town.

Being a part of Ky Lan Mountain, Hoa Ly Ancient Town attracts visitors with mysterious and sparkling scenes of two treasure towers that absolutely give you a wonderful experience.

The impression at night in Hoa Lu Ancient Town is the twinkling emitted from the two treasure towers. At night, the towers give a mysterious and sparkling light covering the ancient town, bringing a magic and mystical.

In the distance are the small boats with hanging twinkling lanterns. Visitors can sit on boats to admire the river, and surrounding scene at night. It’s extremely magical and interesting.

The food corner restores the culture and tradition of dynasties of King Le, King Tran and King Dinh in century X. Under the mysterious scene of the ancient town, visitors can try the traditional foods. It will give you a special and different feeling.

You should try the local foods like Tet cake, Chung cake, Day cake, Da cake, Mat cake, etc. those which are associated with Vietnamese history.

The scenery of the old town was restored according to the architectural history of the Dinh and Le dynasties in the 10th century. This place recreates the traditional culture of the people through ancient Ao Dai costumes.

You can take photos in the place of traditional Ao Dai (or long dress). Or you also can come to a hiring shop to hire several traditional Ao Dai, harmonizing among the classic and ancient space to create a collection of memorable photos.

The corner “culture - leisure - food” celebrated in Hoa Lu Ancient Town is an interesting activity attracting thousands of visitors from everywhere. Here represents the quintessence, culture and tradition of Vietnamese land in the feudatory dynasty.

Visiting the culture and tradition of the ancient town, you can imagine the long history and proud period of Vietnam. This is the long life value that Vietnam citizens want to restore and transfer for future generations.

In order to discover Hoa Lu Ancient Town, visitors should note several tips as follows:

• If you want to have rich traditional pictures, you should hire Ao Dai in shops in the ancient town.
• If you don’t like crowded places, you should not come here on weekends, and holidays. However, those times take place in many interesting activities.
• You should wear polite clothes to show your respect.
• You should keep clean during your time of visiting and check-in.
• The ancient town is the short-tour place, so visitors should consider the travel route because of no overnight stay.

Hoa Lu Ancient Town is a place to preserve and preserve the traditional cultural beauty of our ancestors in the past. Justfly hopes that through these shares, visitors will have a fun and exciting trip with family and relatives this Tet holiday.