Unique beauty of Trang An complex

Visitors to Trang An complex will have a chance to join a journey to the past, to the golden period of the history and immerse themselves in the traditional spiritual values or floating on small boats driven by locals (Photo: Vietnam+)

Visiting Trang An, visitors have a chance to relax in the middle of the picturesque nature, admire the strange stone caves, enjoy fresh air and experience different levels of emotions and discover the roots of human life (Photo: Vietnam+)

The Trang An scenic complex was recognized by UNESO as world cultural and natural heritage thanks to three criteria which make it outstanding, they are culture, aesthetic beauty and geomorphology (Photo: Vietnam+)

Each season the complex is covered with different colour, the pink of lotus or yellow of ripe rice (Photo: Vietnam+)

Unique aquatic system (Photo: Vietnam+)

Trang An connects past and present, history and landscape, nature and people and becomes a symbol of Vietnamese culture which is developing (Photo: Vietnam+)

A series of relic sites, antique items found in Trang An helps affirm that the land is a place primitive people used to settle down (Photo: Vietnam+)

Since the formation of the mudflats, people settled their life, explored resources from the sea, mountains and forests. They lived outdoor, inside the cave and the core of Trang An (Photo: Vietnam+)

Visitors will be surprised at the stalactite systems of Dot cave which stretch over 1,000 m sharpened by Mother nature for thousands of years (Photo: Vietnam+)

Stalactite with unique shapes (Photo: Vietnam+)

Dot cave is the largest cave in Trang An in particular and other similar ecosystems in Ninh Binh province in general (Photo: Vietnam+)

Visitors enjoy the stalactites inside Dot cave (Photo: Vietnam+)

Singers sing love duet songs to persuade visitors to stay longer (Photo: Vietnam+)

Pagodas, temples, shrines leaned on cliffs with ancient tiled mossy roofs create a discrete cultural element, evoking eternity in spiritual beliefs, containing indigenous values harmonising with the landscape (Photo: Vietnam+)

Thousands of visitors visit Trang An scenic complex every day even during low season (Photo: Vietnam+)

Tour guides in Trang An are professional (Photo: Vietnam+)

Suoi Tien temple takes visitors to the root of Trang An and Saint Quy Minh Dai Vuong (Photo: Vietnam+)

Vietnamese people built citadel around Hoa Lu valley to restore culture of the self reliant and independent period, developing the first three reigns of the independent feudal regime, serving as a premise for the Dai Viet civilization (Photo: Vietnam+)