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A DAY TRIP TO PERFUME PAGODA
A short drive from Hanoi, you can visit one of the most important religious Buddhist sites of Vietnam. Perfume (Huong) Pagoda is a cultural religion in Vietnam, including dozens of Buddhist temples, pagodas.
This Day Trip to Perfume Pagoda will bring you the great experience with a huge complex of temple and pagoda and stunning landscape. This complex of pagodas is set amidst mountains, forests, lakes, and caves surrounded by vast green plains of rice. Yen Stream flows between two mountains only for about three kilometers.
08:30 AM – Hanoi Tours Expert team will pick up at your hotel. We spend about one and a half hour drive through the picturesque countryside and back roads to the village of Duc, where we get on a small boat for a one hour trip up Yen stream to Thien Tru pagoda. The boat journeys down a narrow flowing stream fringed by rice fields, temples and grass and you will have the option to stop and visit some of these temples.
11:00 – 12:00 – Arrive Thien Tru Pagoda, visit more beautiful and precious sculptures, taking photos, worshiping.
12:30 – Have lunch at a local restaurant
After lunch we take 30 minutes cable car ride up hills to Huong Tich Pagoda – Which is inside the great natural grotto which looks like the open mouth of a dragon and the stalactites and stalagmites inside lead many to believe they are in a miniature pavilion. Above the entrance to the cave, 18th century poet and warlord Trinh Sam inscribed “Nam Thien De Nhat Dong” (the most beautiful cave under the southern sky). There is a statue of the Goddess of Mercy which was made from a whole blue stone in the Tay Son dynasty (1778-1802).
Note: You can also choose to walk if you believe that taking the challenging path up and down is a way of expressing your sincerity to Buddha.
16:30: After, the boat trip back to Ben Duc, we depart for Hanoi, arriving in the city around 18:30 – Ends of A Day Trip to Perfume Pagoda.