As Hanoi residents, we often needed a break from the city. Cuc Phuong became our escape - it's about 2.5 hours from Hanoi (which we did on a motorbike on a nice backroad), it has some intact forest, nice walks and some wildlife. This is a park for people who like 'adventure light' and want to go somewhere off the beaten path. There is affordable and simple accommodation inside the park and that allows you to hear birds and gibbons in the morning, go on night walks (fireflies, amazing insects) and enjoy the park during the quiet hours. If you stay in the park, arrange with the kitchen all your meal times soon after you arrive so they can be prepared. In a country that is so rapidly developing, this remains a fairly wild and unique park!

We had a great few days at Cuc Phuong. We went on the Wildlife Experience and spent a night camping in the forest with our guide and the ranger. This was incredible. We trekked and went on a night time walk. We saw snakes including a cobra, amphibians and birds. They set up camp for us, we ate by the fire and had a very memorable time drinking rice wine with them. Our guide was great. Highly recommend if this is what you like. We spent a further two nights at Mac Lake in some of the newer rooms so we could explore more of the park ourselves. They were good and clean. Hard beds but we slept well. They do a lot of engagement work. A school group was staying and blasted the karaoke all evening and from 6am in the morning. This did affect the experience slightly for one night. We hired a scooter for a reasonable price, visited the cave (really impressive- take a torch!) and the primate centre. The guided trip around the primate centre lasted 15 minutes - it was good to hear of the conservation work there. Food was cheap but good at Mac Lake. Restaurant and site as a whole could do with a spruce up as you'd expect for an old national park (including a litter pick on some trails unfortunately)but we went for the wildlife and we had a great time.

The park is wonderful. A haven for the work being done to help protect the wildlife of the area. We stayed for 3 nights in the accommodation on site. We visited all the rescue centres for primates/turtles/Save Vietnams Wildlife. The work these organisations do is amazing. Really inspiring. Trying to combat poaching and hunting is a huge task. We also did a hike with a guide hired from the information centre. The staff were extremely helpful and did all they could to make our stay enjoyable. The park is huge and worth exploring with the help of guides if you have time. I would like to visit again and explore more. It can be hard to get to but we got a bus from Hanoi from Giap Bat Bus Station which takes you right to the NP office in the park and picks up from there as well. If you do stay at the park I would recommend bringing some snacks/coffee/tea bags/cereal etc if you prefer those sort things. Breakfast options are limited.

I did the 2D1N tour offered by the national park, called "wildlife experience". It included treks in the park, wildlife night spotting, and camping within the park. Communication with the park via email was a bit tricky but in the end everything worked out. I was accompanied by my guide, ranger L (but I don't know if it is written correctly), and a porter, Lang. L was very knowledgeable about the primates (we started the tour with a visit at the primates rescue center) and the species present in the park. The hike through the forest was very cool, we even saw the king Cobra! We hiked for 4 hours until we reached a small stream where we set up the camp. There were really a lot of leeches, so be prepared for that. Lang was born in the primary forest and he was very skilled about life in the forest. For instance, he collected bamboo rots and cooked them inside the bamboo on the fire. We ate dinner and then we went for 1h of night spotting but we didn't see much other than a few spiders. The morning after the hike lasted only 1h, until we reached the main road, where our car was already waiting for us. I would have liked the second day to be a bit longer. The price is a bit high if you go alone, but it was definitely the wildest experience I had so far!

Our hotel organised the trip for us and we were picked up in a minivan about 8.30. Beautiful drive through the countryside, then reached the park. First stop was the cave, beware a lot of steep steps but worth it when you reached the cave. Then a hike along a muddy path to the 1000 year old tree. Watch out for the leeches! Then another hike round to a massive tree, so many butterflies on the way back! Good lunch was served, then to the primate rescue centre, it look very well organised and the guided was very enthusiastic, learnt a lot. Overall an excellent day!

Nice national park to experience the vietnamese jungle. We had a guided tour to visit the primate rescue center, the 1000 year old tree and also the cave of prehistoric men. I think a guided tour is worth it if you want more information about the wildlife and culture.

It was a nice experience. I need to walk around more than 10 km to see 1 thousand year tree. The road was very tough and hard for beginner like me and the weather was bad. Need to be careful because there ảe a lot of insects overthere