FULL DAY ITINERARY:
08:00 – 08.30 Am: Our tour guide and driver will pick up at your hotel around Hanoi Old Quarter to depart for Ninh Binh province . We will drive around 2.5 hours to Bai Dinh Pagoda – the lagest Buddhism center in Vietnam. You will be attracted by the traditional majestic architecture with hundreds of statues. It is a great chance to visit some of the highlights:
- 500 stone statues of “La Han” (Arhats)
- 2 huge bronze bells, one weighs 27 tons, other weighs 36 tones
- Three bronze statues of Tam The (50 tons each)
Then you will have Buffet lunch featuring Vietnamese cuisine.
Continue to take a boat trip to visit Trang An Complex - inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.. You will head to Trang An, embark on a traditional sampan through an out-standing natural beauty of majestic limestone massif and the numerous caves: Hang Toi ( Dack ) cave - 320 meter long, Sang (light) cave - 90 meter long, and Hang Nau Ruou (Cooking wine) cave - 250 meter long…
Leisure cycling on rural roads alongside the extensive canal network and through small villages with back drop of a maze of limestone mountains.
16:30 - Take the returns shuttle bus to Hanoi.
19:00 - Arrive back in your hotel. Tour ends.