Located on the Ngu Nhac Son Mountain, belongs to Dam Khe village, Ninh Hai commune, Hoa Lu district, Ninh Binh Province
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The zone is featured with a tropical climate, with 2 seasons. The cold
and rainy season lasts from May to October, and the dry and hot season
from Novermber to April. Its annual average temperature is 23.5oC.
As situated at the base side of the Red River Delta Triangle, it is a
half-mountain half-plain area, with a coastline of 18 kilometers.
Landscape of Bich Cave was dubbed “The Nam Thien II” (the second
beautiful cave in Vietnam). In 1773, Mr. Nguyen Nghiem (the father of a
celebrated Vietnamese poet-Nguyen Du) visited the cave. Sighting view of
mountains, rivers, water, rice fields…with blue color so that he named
the cave with a beautiful and poetic name “Bich Cave”. Here, visitors
can visit the temple; a small boat will take visitors to explore the
magical cave. Bich Cave is one of the most famous scenic spots of Ninh
Binh, located in Ngu Nhac Son Mountains, belonging to Dam Khe village,
Ninh Hai commune, Hoa Lu district. Bich Dong means “Green Grotto” or
“Pearl Grotto”, which reveals its magnificient natural beauties. Colors,
shapes, and sounds of the shining stalactites converges in such a
captivating miracle that no one could refuse to touch, knock and
contemplate them in deed.
From Bich Cave, tourists can continued use boat to visit Tam Coc. Tam
Coc means three grottos: Ca grotto, Hai grotto and Ba grotto. When the
boat comes into three grottos, tourists will feel cool. Stalactites from
the ceiling like iridescent pearls. This grotto is adorned with
beautiful stalactites and stalagmites of different shapes and colours
that sparkle like gemstones. Now when drifting along the gentle Ngo Dong
River under the Grotto, you can feel the deeply pure atmosphere with
special smell of fresh rivers water and cool air from karst mountains
when reaching each of the 3 caves in turns.
Tourists visit Tam grotto by only single path on the water and take
about 2 hours. The small boats will take visitors to discover Ca
grotto-the biggest grotto in three grottos with 127 meters length. It is
under a big mountain which across the Ngo Dong river. Tourists will
feel fresh and cool air. Continuing the journey, visitors can sight Hai
grotto and Ba grotto. Two grottos are shorter than Ca grotto. The
adventurous tourists can continue explore Tien stream and join
adventurous journey with climbing into Noi Lam Temple.
Entrance fee (Tam Grotto): 30.000vnd/people
Price of hiring boat: 80.000vnd/people
Entrance fee ( Bich Cave) 10.000 vnd/people
Foreign people: 2 people/boat
Vietnamese: 4 people/boat
Visitor can use camera and take photos.