The Perfume pagoda (Chua Huong Tich in Vietnamese) is a shrine in a cave on top of a mountain, about 60km southwest of Hanoi. The pagoda is accessed either by walking from the Den Trinh temple or by taking the cable car from the Den Trinh temple. The cave itself, i.e. the shrine, contains a number of altars and statues and is accessed via a staircase from the hill station of the cable car.

01 Huong Tich mountains
02 Huong Tich mountains cable car
03 Staircase to cave
04 Conical stalagmite
05 Temple bell
06 Cave with shrine
07 Main altar
08 Altars
09 Statues
10 Cave opening
11 Statues on altar
12 Vietnamese man in traditional costume
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