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Travel to Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam - The largest pagoda in the world

The Tam Chuc Pagoda tourist complex in Ha Nam is an attractive spiritual tourist area in Vietnam, attracting a large number of tourists to worship and explore in recent years. Through this article, HoaBinh Tourist will share with you the experience of traveling to Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam so that you can have the most complete trip.

Where is Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam, and who worships it?

Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam is located in Ba Sao town, Kim Bang district, Ha Nam province. It is considered the largest pagoda in the world to date and is located in the poetic and lyrical Tam Chuc tourist area complex. 

Tam Chuc Pagoda worships Buddhist monks Bodhidharma, Zen master Nguyen Minh Khong, Zen master Khuong Viet, monk Thich Thanh Tu, Zen master Do Phap Thuan, etc., who are national masters who have contributed to the development of Vietnamese Buddhism.

What is the most beautiful season to visit Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam?

The ideal time to travel to Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam is in the spring, specifically the first months of the year, the time of the festival season. From January 10 to the end of the third lunar month, the climate is cool, and visitors can join in worshiping Buddha and praying for money and blessings.

Depending on the purpose of the trip, if you just want to explore Tam Chuc Pagoda, admire the lyrical beauty, and appreciate the quiet sacredness of the Buddha's place, then you can go to Tam Chuc Pagoda, Ha Nam, at any time. 

Means of transportation to Tam Chuc Pagoda, Ha Nam

There are many buses to Tam Chuc Pagoda Ha Nam. You can choose different ways and means of transportation to travel to Tam Chuc Pagoda Ha Nam conveniently:

  • Bus: Tourists in Hanoi can choose the Hanoi-Phu Ly bus route, departing from Giap Bat bus station.
  • Passenger car: This is a convenient means of transportation to Tam Chuc Pagoda. Most passenger buses run on the Phap Van-Gie Bridge highway very quickly; it only takes 1 hour to get there.
  • Personal vehicle: You can choose to travel to Tam Chuc Pagoda by motorbike or personal car. If starting from Hanoi, you drive along Highway 1A past Gie Bridge and then go straight to get there.

Ticket price for Tam Chuc Ha Nam tourist area

“How much does it cost to travel to Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam?” is a question that many tourists are interested in. In fact, tourists traveling to Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam do not have to pay an entrance ticket but will need to choose one of two convenient modes of transportation: tram or boat.

  • Taking the tram: The ticket price is about 90,000 VND per round-trip ticket per person, traveling by road along the shore of Luc Nhac Lake to the inner area of the temple.
  • Boat trip: Ticket price is about 200,000–350,000 VND/person, from the boat wharf to the inner gate and the tourist attractions.

There are also many other travel and culinary combos. Please note that the above price is only a reference price and may change from time to time. Before visiting, you should contact the temple directly to update the latest price according to the time and holiday. 

What is beautiful about traveling to Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam?

Traveling to Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam has many interesting experiences, diverse and unique landscapes. The Tam Chuc Pagoda tourist complex in Ha Nam has the following attractive and typical tourist attractions:

Thuy Dinh Guest House

Traveling to Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam, you will first set foot at Thuy Dinh guesthouse, to check-in, buy tickets to board the boat to explore Tam Chuc Pagoda. While staying at Thuy Dinh guest house, visitors can visit the interior and take pictures of the temple. Tourists to Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam can see the context of the entire Tam Chuc spiritual tourist area at Thuy Dinh guesthouse.

Triple gate

To visit Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam, visitors will need to go through the three-entrance gate. There are two external three-entrance gates and three internal three-entrance gates, built extremely massively, solidly and with unique patterns.

Garden of prayer pillars

Passing through the three-entrance gate to Quan Am Palace, you will come to the area of 32 Buddhist columns, also known as the Buddhist pillar garden.

The pillars have massive volume and size, weighing about 200 tons, and are made from Thanh Hoa green stone with a height of about 14m. The design of the column's base is lotus-shaped, the column's body is hexagonal, and the top of the column is shaped like a lotus bud, in addition to hand-sculpted images of Buddha's teachings, creating a majestic space in front of the Guanyin Palace.

The three main halls of Tam Chuc Pagoda are magnificent

Looking at the map of Tam Chuc Pagoda, you will see that there are 3 main halls: Tam The Palace, Phap Chu Palace and Quan Am Palace. In each area, each shrine will worship a Buddha with its own sacred meaning. In common, the three palaces have four bas-reliefs hand-carved from stone collected from a volcanic crater in Indonesia.

Phap Chu Palace

Phap Chu Palace is the place to worship Buddha Shakyamuni. Most impressive is the largest monolithic bronze Buddha statue, weighing 150 tons, in Southeast Asia. The electrical space is designed with 2 floors of curved roof, 31m high, on a floor area of 3000 m2.

Tam The Palace

Tam The Palace was built with impressive architecture, 39m high, on a floor space of up to 5000m2. You will be surprised to see three large Buddha statues made of black bronze right in the middle of Tam The main hall, showing the past, present and future, and 12,000 reliefs made from volcanic rocks in Indonesia.

Coming to the front yard of Tam The Palace, you will see a Bodhi tree extracted from a 2,125-year-old Bodhi tree, and a giant black bronze cauldron about 4 meters high, carved with famous Vietnamese spiritual landscapes. Nam, with quotes about the master on the body of the cauldron.

Quan Am Palace

Guanyin Palace is a place to worship Buddha with a thousand hands and a thousand eyes. There is an extremely large, airy and quiet yard with a view of the garden of prayer columns.

Tam Chuc Communal House

The communal house is located in the middle of a large lake, worshiping Queen Dinh Duong Thi Nguyet and preserving ancient vestiges from the reign of King Dinh.

The impression is that on the surface of the lake there are 6 small mountains rising, underneath which many natural species of flora and fauna live. In the summer, lotus flowers bloom, creating an enchantingly beautiful lake scene in the Tam Chuc communal house area.

Jade pagoda's heavenly altar

To get to the heaven altar at Ngoc Pagoda, you need to go through the main Tam Dien area, climbing quite a distance. Ngoc Pagoda is made entirely from red granite; the stone slabs are assembled without using glue or cement.

Address: On top of That Tich mountain, part of the tourist complex of Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam

Experience traveling to Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam you need to know

  • The Tam Chuc tourist area complex in Ha Nam is very large; you need to consult the map of Tam Chuc pagoda carefully in advance to avoid wasting time finding your way.
  • If you choose to travel to Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam on festive days, the most ideal means of transportation is a motorbike taxi. Boats or trams will have to queue for a long time.
  • Traveling to Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam is a spiritual tourism complex, so you need to choose discreet, comfortable clothing.
  • Traveling to Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam requires a lot of walking, so be sure to bring sports shoes.

Note: For tourists to Tam Chuc Pagoda, Ha Nam, they should enter the temple's shrines from the side door; do not enter the middle door; do not step on the door sill; but they need to step through the door sill.

The travel experience of tourists at Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam is that they should only burn incense at the top located outside and should limit burning incense inside the pagoda because it can easily affect the Buddha statue and dharma tools. Only insert 1 stick of incense into the incense bowl; do not arbitrarily insert incense into the hand of a statue, tree, or offering.

Traveling to Tam Chuc Pagoda in Ha Nam is an exciting journey of experience, combining the journey of worshiping Buddha and exploring the unique architecture and culture of the pagoda with the most charming scenery in the North. For more information about the Tam Chuc Pagoda tour, please quickly contact HoaBinh Tourist through our hotline at 0939.311.911 - 0913.311.911 for advice and dedicated support.