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  Cuc Phuong National Park, (VM16), Vietnam
Saturday, August 22, 2009

The Cuc Phong National Park was awesome! Beautiful scenery, lovely food (and massive portions!) and lots of wildlife!

We started with the Endanged Primate Rescue Centre; it holds many different types of endangered monkeys and all look really well cared for. We were told about the history of the centre and the problems they have/have had with poachers. They're doing some great things there...

We then hired bikes and cycled the 20km to the centre of the park (passing the "Big Tree" which is... a big tree and the Cave of Prehistoric Man which is where human graves and tools were found dating back over 7500 years!). We then hiked through the jungle... There were LOADS of bugs and mosquitoes (as expected but still minging!). We stopped to see the 1000 year old tree but decided against the longer route which included the Ancient Tree (as we were a bit sick of trees by that point... Each tree looked pretty much the same!).

It was hard work but a very fun day! We celebrated with food and beers at the Gate reception (where we were staying). The portions were MASSIVE and the food was yummy! Just what we needed after our day of exercise...

The next day, we visited the Botanic Gardens which was a lovely 3km walk but was basically an overgrown garden!

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Vietnam fruit from the taxi driver	Freddy the Frog	Wonky ear-ed dog	Endanged Primate Rescue Centre
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Endanged Primate Rescue Centre	Endanged Primate Rescue Centre	Bike ride in Cuc Phuong National Park	Bike ride in Cuc Phuong National Park
Bike ride in Cuc Phuong National Park	Drenched	Drenched	Walk to the Cave of Prehistoric Man
Cave of Prehistoric Man	Cave of Prehistoric Man	Disturbing the butterflies	Disturbing the butterflies
Disturbing the butterflies	Disturbing the butterflies	There's a butterfly on your shoe!	Big Tree
Big Tree	Big Tree	Big Tree	Trekking in Cuc Phuong National Park
Trekking in Cuc Phuong National Park	Trekking in Cuc Phuong National Park	Trekking in Cuc Phuong National Park	Trekking in Cuc Phuong National Park
Trekking in Cuc Phuong National Park	1000 year old tree	1000 year old tree	Swimming pool fed by a river
A much needed break!	Mucky bum after sliding down a slope	Picking himself up after slipping over	Cycling in Cuc Phuong National Park
Cycling in Cuc Phuong National Park	The end of our exhausting day!	Mucky!   Comments!	Bloody
Clean as a whistle!	Maybe not...	Mucky	Botanic Gardens at the National Park
Botanic Gardens at the National Park	Botanic Gardens at the National Park	Botanic Gardens at the National Park	Botanic Gardens at the National Park
Botanic Gardens at the National Park	Botanic Gardens at the National Park	Botanic Gardens at the National Park	Botanic Gardens at the National Park
Botanic Gardens at the National Park	Botanic Gardens at the National Park	Botanic Gardens at the National Park

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