Thung Nham, Ninh Binh

Thung Nham - Ninh Binh shows its own beauty in each season of the year that can inspire anyone. However, the best time to travel here is in autumn. At that time, the slightly cold and dry weather is very good for visiting. You also can see birds easily because they come back sooner to their nests.

This is a great opportunity for you to admire the image of flocks of birds flying sideways, gliding in the sky. There are two times when you can catch flocks of birds flying in the sky: early morning and late afternoon. Surely this will be a wonderful experience that visitors should not miss when coming to Thung Nham.

Thung Nham is far from Hanoi about 100km. So, you can move to Thung Nham from Hanoi by many ways: bus, car or motorbike. With short distance, travel time from Hanoi to get to Thung Nham takes about 2 hours.

By bus: Bus fare for route Hanoi - Ninh Binh is 70,000 - 90,000 VND. You can take a bus in Giap Bat station or My Dinh station to Ninh Binh bus station, then take a taxi or motorbike to get to Thung Nham.

By motorbike: From Hanoi, tourists follow the National Highway 1A to go to Ninh Binh. Then, move 4km to get to the Vom bridge. Next, go 8km to get Tam Coc - Thung Nang - Bich Dong. Here there is a crossroad near a pagoda, turn left then go straight to Thung Nham.

It’s about 12km from the central Ninh Binh city to Thung Nham, so you can take a motorbike or taxi to move.

You should remember the opening and closing time of the Thung Nham tourist area. Hereafter is the detailed opening and closing time.

• Summer: 7.00 am - 6.00 pm

• Winter: 7.30 am - 5.30 pm

The current ticket fare:

• Adult and children above 1.3m: 150,000 VND each person
• Children at 1.0m - 1.3m high: 100,000 VND each person
• Children under 1.0m: Free
• Disabled and elderly above 80 years old: Free

Note: Only applies to certain types of disabilities such as intellectual disability, serious physical disability, etc. Depending on each specific case, there will be appropriate entrance and exit ticket prices.

• The above ticket fare includes fee for visiting bird park, But Cave and 10% VAT tax.

Thung Nham Bird Park is the residence of more than 50,000 birds classified in 40,000 kinds, such as cauldron, stork, heron, teal, fire stork, etc. Discovering this bird park, visitors can admire the beautiful hovering of birds under the sky.

But Cave is a natural stone cave created from stalactites. Like its name, the stones inside the cave look like sitting fairy men. To visit the cave, you must wear a life jacket and sit on a boat to move and discover the cave.

Vai Gioi Cave is 5,000m2 with 3 stories. Inside the cave are the mysterious and sparkling stalactites and stone blocks looking like heaven, hell and Earth. These blocks are extremely unique so that many visitors just want to come here to admire them.

Ba Co Cave is one of the most beautiful caves in the Thung Nham tourist area. Coming here, you will have another chance to harmonize with nature and take memorable photos to save your tours.

It looks like a paradise with 1500m long and diverse stalactites. Deeper coming inside, more obviously you can feel the mysterious and magical spaces.

Ninh Binh cuisine has never let us down. If you have a chance to visit this land, absolutely you must try these foods listed below at least once in your life. We are sure you can not be disappointed.

Mentioning Ninh Binh cuisine, people might think about dishes from goat meat with featured flavor. Goats here are bred on milestone mountains giving firm, sweet and fragrant meat.

Goat meat is processed to make many dishes like goat meat roll, steamed goat meat, grilled goat meat, boiled goat meat dipping sauce, etc.

Mountain snails are famous for their firmness, toughness and taste similar to the smell of Chinese medicine. Dipping each snail in chili-lime fish sauce brings a special and unforgettable inspiration to anyone who tries it for the first time.

Ingredients to make an eel vermicelli bowl are youth eels giving fatty and fragrant meat and broth cooked from eel bones and other seasonings. All together creates a dense, fatty and delicious eel vermicelli.

This is a rural dish, owning the feature of Vietnam cuisine in general and of Ninh Binh cuisine in particular. The crispy taste, fragrance of fried crab with guise leaves absolutely convinces any diner at the first time.

• Opening time: 07.00 am - 10.00 pm, from Monday to Sunday
• Reference price: 100,000 - 250,000 VND
• Highlighted dishes: Eel soup, fried scorched rice, scorched rice with goat meat sauce, roasted goat meat, grilled goat meat block, etc.

The space here is decorated in style of luxury and impression. The dining rooms are equipped with modern furniture and devices. Therefore, this is the ideal place to celebrate parties and events.

The dishes in Thung Nham food court are processed from fresh ingredients, vegetables and meats are provided by Thung Nham farm. Looking at the restaurant menu, you can find a variety of foods from popular Ninh Binh dishes like goat meat, scorched rice, hill chicken, to the rare dishes that you cannot find out except here, such as Trau fish, rose myrtle.

• Opening time: 7.00 am - 10.00 pm
• Reference price: 100,000 - 220,000 VND each person
• Highlighted dishes: Roasted goat meat, scorched rice with goat meat sauce, goat meat hot pot, etc.

Hieu De restaurant is famous for dishes made from goat meat. Goat meat here is fresh and processed in traditional recipes, keeping the featured taste.

The dining space is large, airy and clean with an impressive decoration. The service here is also very good and satisfies many diners.

• Opening time: Anytime
• Reference price: 150,000 - 300,000 VND
• Highlighted dishes: Scorched rice with goat meat sauce, roasted cheese lobster, curry fried crab, and carnaval beer or black chicken soup

Anh Dung restaurant opened for the first time in 1992. Undergoing more than 20 years, the restaurant is still the top brand of Ninh Binh province in the travel and tour field. Coming here, you will sink into the ancient capital architecture style with the unique and diverse cuisine.

• Opening time: 9.00 am - 9.00 pm
• Reference price: 50,000 - 200,000 VND
• Highlighted dishes: Roasted duck, hamburger, beef noodle, sandwich

Apart from the famous foods, Chu’s House is famous for drinks and juices. Diners have reviewed the foods here are clean and the prices are reasonable.

The simple and village style with traditional dishes are the strong notes making the speciality of this restaurant.

This is the most famous food of Ninh Binh land. It is made of 100% fragrant glutinous rice. The rice is cooked in a cast iron pot and over charcoal to get a crispy and overheated rice with a yellow color.

Reference price: 35,000 VND each pack of 200g

Kim Son wine is the result of a perfect fermentation from a special glutinous rice of Kim Son land. This rice is called “Yellow flower sticky rice”. After fermented with 36 medicinal herbs, the wine is cooked with fresh water from well. Indeed, the wine has an extremely fragrance and special taste.

Depending on degrees, Kim Son wines have different prices:

• 40 - 45 degree: From 50,000 VND per liter
• 45 - 50 degree: From 55,000 VND per liter
• Over 55 degrees: From 70,000 VND liter

Gia Vien village is well-known for its delicious shrimp paste. The food has deep red brown, rich-shrimp smell, sweet taste and reasonably salty savor. Its flavor can stimulate anyone's taste.

Price: From 60,000 VND per bottle of 500ml

Price: From 30,000 VND per piece

In order to have a perfect, safe and memorable tour in Thung Nham - Ninh Binh, please remember these tips below:

• You should bring drinks, wet tissue, and snacks to supply foods for a long time.
• You also should prepare essential medicines like headache medicine, diarrhea medicine, insect repellent, etc.
• For moving conveniently, you should neatly dress, wear trainers or low shoes.
• Do not forget a hat and umbrella to protect yourself from sunshine and rain.
• There are many tourist places in Thung Nham - Ninh Binh, so you should study the map and bring the map with you during your tour.

Justfly hopes that the article sharing about Thung Nham, Ninh Binh travel experiences will bring readers a lot of useful information!