A ceremony to celebrate the Trang An tourism Complex as a world culturaland natural Heritage site will be held on January 22-24, said Tran HuuBinh, Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of northern Ninh Binhprovince.
Covering an area of more than 6,100hectares, Trang An consists of three conjunctional sites: the Hoa Luancient citadel, Trang An-Tam Coc-Bich Dong natural scenic site, and theHoa Lu primeval forest. The complex is often called Vietnam's Ha LongBay on land.
The turbulent movement of earth crustof hundreds of million years ago has endowed Ninh Binh with a uniquenature of labyrinth of caves, mountains, lakes, and historical relics.The site boasts 47 historical relics with numerous caves inside stunninglimestone karst mountain ranges.
Not only servingas a cradle of civilisation of ancient Vietnamese, Trang An also used tohouse the first capital of the Vietnamese feudal and independent state,Hoa Lu, more than 1,000 years ago. Its rugged landscape provided afavourable location for a secure and easily defended citadel.
Moreover, Trang An owns diverse ecological system. Itis surrounded by primary forests with variety of floral and faunasystems including 310 types of tracheophyta, many kinds of fungi, mossand algae, some rare trees like Dalbergia tonkinensis, Chukrasiatabularis, Burretiodendron hsienmu, over 30 animals, 50 types of birds,reptiles, especially rare animals like Capricornis sumatraensis,Neofelis nebulosa, white chest gibbon, Buceros bicornis.
In the Government’s northern coastal region development plan, NinhBinh is oriented to become the country’s tourism centre featuring anatural conservation zone, a national park, a world biosphere reserveand a tourism area.
Chairman of the Central Councilfor Theory and Criticism on Literature and Arts Nguyen Hong Vinhsuggested the locality combine the maintenance, conservation andpromotion of the heritage site with the protection of natural resourcesand ecological environment.
He stressed thenecessity for the province to follow and take full advantage of the Lawon Cultural Heritage and other related laws to serve protection works.
Therefore, in the time to come, five localitieshousing the Trang An complex, namely Gia Vien, Hoa Lu, Nho Quan, TamDiep and Ninh Binh city, will intensify management over tourismactivities, and encourage locals’ involvement in protecting andconserving the heritage, while upgrading infrastructure facilities inthe site.
In the four-day New Year holiday, theprovince welcomed around 60,000 tourists to the site, up 12 percentagainst the same period last year, according to Lam Quang Nghia,Director of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.-VNA
Covering an area of more than 6,100hectares, Trang An consists of three conjunctional sites: the Hoa Luancient citadel, Trang An-Tam Coc-Bich Dong natural scenic site, and theHoa Lu primeval forest. The complex is often called Vietnam's Ha LongBay on land.
The turbulent movement of earth crustof hundreds of million years ago has endowed Ninh Binh with a uniquenature of labyrinth of caves, mountains, lakes, and historical relics.The site boasts 47 historical relics with numerous caves inside stunninglimestone karst mountain ranges.
Not only servingas a cradle of civilisation of ancient Vietnamese, Trang An also used tohouse the first capital of the Vietnamese feudal and independent state,Hoa Lu, more than 1,000 years ago. Its rugged landscape provided afavourable location for a secure and easily defended citadel.
Moreover, Trang An owns diverse ecological system. Itis surrounded by primary forests with variety of floral and faunasystems including 310 types of tracheophyta, many kinds of fungi, mossand algae, some rare trees like Dalbergia tonkinensis, Chukrasiatabularis, Burretiodendron hsienmu, over 30 animals, 50 types of birds,reptiles, especially rare animals like Capricornis sumatraensis,Neofelis nebulosa, white chest gibbon, Buceros bicornis.
In the Government’s northern coastal region development plan, NinhBinh is oriented to become the country’s tourism centre featuring anatural conservation zone, a national park, a world biosphere reserveand a tourism area.
Chairman of the Central Councilfor Theory and Criticism on Literature and Arts Nguyen Hong Vinhsuggested the locality combine the maintenance, conservation andpromotion of the heritage site with the protection of natural resourcesand ecological environment.
He stressed thenecessity for the province to follow and take full advantage of the Lawon Cultural Heritage and other related laws to serve protection works.
Therefore, in the time to come, five localitieshousing the Trang An complex, namely Gia Vien, Hoa Lu, Nho Quan, TamDiep and Ninh Binh city, will intensify management over tourismactivities, and encourage locals’ involvement in protecting andconserving the heritage, while upgrading infrastructure facilities inthe site.
In the four-day New Year holiday, theprovince welcomed around 60,000 tourists to the site, up 12 percentagainst the same period last year, according to Lam Quang Nghia,Director of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.-VNA
