One moment
Forests
Chùa Non Nước (Núi Vệ Linh)
A forest kept quiet · Sóc Sơn, Vietnam
4.7★Rating
739Reviews
$Price level
Oct–AprBest time
The experience
A pagoda set more than 110 m above the foot of Núi Sóc, inside the Đền Sóc complex on Hanoi's northern edge, roughly 35 km from the centre. It sits in the middle of a curved forested ridge that wraps around it like the arms of a chair, looking down over a lake and the hamlets of Vệ Linh. The wider complex — Đền Trình, Đền Mẫu, Chùa Đại Bi, Đền Thượng and this pagoda — was made a national special heritage site in 2014. Above it the wooded slope climbs to the 297 m summit of Vệ Linh peak.
The only real forested climb left inside Hanoi's own boundary, ending at an 85-tonne bronze horseman.
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It's only worth the detour Oct–Apr. Turn up outside that window and you're looking at a different place; we'd rather say so than sell you the photo.
Where it is
Sóc Sơn, Vietnam · Phù Linh, Sóc Sơn. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
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