{"id":4238,"date":"2016-05-11T19:53:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T18:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2019-02-14T12:01:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T11:01:23","slug":"daytrip-cuc-phuong-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/daytrip-cuc-phuong-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Daytrip to the Cuc Phuong National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another gray morning at the Chez Beo Homestay. But it looked like it will stay dray today. Decided to go for a ride to the Cuc Phuong National Park to look for the 1000 year old tree. <br \/>I gave the girl from Google Maps all the freedom and she did choose a really nice road all the way!<br \/>If only the sky&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First stop on the way: Hang Mua Temple &#8211; or lets say down at the temple. To get there you pass some ducks!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/586.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"598\" alt=\"Baby Ducks\"\/><br \/>Baby Ducks in the water <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/587.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"516\" alt=\"Baby Ducks\"\/><br \/> Baby Ducks on the land<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/588.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Grave in the rice field\"\/><br \/>Grave in the rice field. It does look nice but the more graves you put  the less rice is there for the rest&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/589.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"557\" alt=\"Hang Mua Temple in the mist\"\/><br \/>Hang Mua Temple in the mist. Would be super nice to go up and enjoy the view &#8211; if there would be one!<br \/>Ok let&#8217;s get back to the road. The Google woman is complaining as well&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/591.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Mountains in the mist\"\/><br \/> Mountains in the mist<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/592.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Ducks - again\"\/><br \/>Ducks &#8211; again! <br \/>Finally I did reach the park, did pay entrance and continued to the parking lot further inside. After pay for bike parking (why is that not covered in the entrance fee??) I did start the hike to the tree. If you ever been in a forest in Asia this is nothing special. It was quite warm and humid so after 30 minutes you are wet &#8211; a lot! And finally you reach the tree. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/593.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Finally - the 1000 year old tree\"\/><br \/>The sign is prove: I present you the 1000 year old tree<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/594.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"1082\" alt=\"Not a lot left but it is an old tree\"\/><br \/> Not a lot left but it is an old tree &#8211; and nothing more. Since I did see really old trees in California I was not to impressed by this one and continued the walk back to the parking lot. They made it into a wide circle so you see new green stuff and not the same that you saw on the way to the tree.<br \/>Back at the bike my shirt was so wet I had to put it under the seat in the &#8220;trunk&#8221;. Told the Google woman that we go back to Chez Beo. She was super happy to guide me again and off we went.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/595.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"441\" alt=\"Following Google Maps\"\/><br \/>Following Google Maps does lead you to all sorts of roads in Vietnam. Sometimes I was not sure about the girl. She thinks I have a car &#8211; that is why she want me to go on the highway when she finds one but you are not allowed with a bike. And sometimes she thinks I have a 4 x 4 or a dirt bike when she sends me to roads like this one. Girl &#8211; you have to learn a few things! But I have to say &#8211; most of the times she does a god job.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/596.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"475\" alt=\"Electric rod fishing\"\/><br \/>Electric rod fishing <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/597.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Until the ducks come home\"\/><br \/>Until the ducks come home <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/598.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"418\" alt=\"Herding with the hat\"\/><br \/>Herding with the hat &#8211; very popular with the North Vietnamese duck farmers! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/599.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"438\" alt=\"The big Mussels hunt\"\/><br \/>The big Mussels hunt <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/600.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Peaceful valley\"\/><br \/>Peaceful valley <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/601.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"B\u00e1i \u0110\u00ednh Temple in the back\"\/><br \/>B\u00e1i \u0110\u00ednh Temple  in the back <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/602.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Propaganda\"\/><br \/> Propaganda<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/603.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"383\" alt=\"Looks like they have big plans with that road\"\/><br \/> Looks like they have big plans with that road<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/604.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"406\" alt=\"Ship yard Vietnamese style\"\/><br \/> Ship yard Vietnamese style<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/590.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"More ducks\"\/><br \/>More ducks on the way back <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/606.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"Evening in the Chez Beo kitchen\"\/><br \/>Evening in the Chez Beo kitchen <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2016\/vietnam\/607.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" alt=\"Plenty of food: Dinner at Chez Beo\"\/><br \/> Plenty of food: Dinner at Chez Beo! 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But it looked like it will stay dray today. Decided to go for a ride to the Cuc Phuong National Park to look for the 1000 year old tree. I gave the girl from Google Maps all the freedom and she did choose a really nice road&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":4245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kb_optimizer_status":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[550,15,142,210,538],"tags":[358,86,461,588,541],"class_list":["post-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ninh-binh","category-animal","category-asia-travel","category-cat","category-vietnam","tag-animal","tag-asia","tag-cat","tag-ninh-bin","tag-vietnam"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/593.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Marc Hastenteufel","author_link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/author\/marc\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/593.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}