Bai Dinh Pagoda Trang An Boat Trip Day Tour by Limousine

08:00 – 08:30 – Our guide will meet you at your hotel/stay and start 100km modern bus-journey through verdant landscape of countryside, short-break en route.

11:00 – Arrive Bai Dinh pagoda complex, get on electric cars to visit massive architecture: 500 stone statues of Arhats; Bell tower with 27 tons and 36 tons bronze bell; Golden statue of Goddess of Mercy, walk up summit mountain where 100 tones in weight – 10 meter in hights bronze statue of Bhudda Sakyamuni located. Amazing views, sacred atmospheres and intriguing Buddhism story presented by our insider guide, you cannot fail to enchant.

13:00 – Enjoy a lavish buffet lunch in a local restaurant

14:00 – Embark on a 2 hours – sampan boat in Trang An – A spectacular labyrinth of mirrored waters studded with towering, jungle-clad limestone outcrops. Gently rowed down the exquisite river through numerous caves : Hang Toi, 320 meter long, Sang cave, 90 meter long, and Hang Nau Ruou, 250 meter long… Every passages bring new surprise of mystery hidden inside isolated valleys of tranquility that likely transformed to another world and time.

16:15 – Leisure cycling on rural roads alongside the extensive canal network and through small villages with backdrops of a maze of limestone mountains

17:30 – Get on shuttle bus to return to Hanoi

20:00 – Drop off at your hotel/ accommodation’s door steps in Hanoi Old Quarter. Trip ends.

Situated near the southern margin of the Red River Delta, the Trang An Landscape Complex is a spectacular landscape of limestone karst peaks permeated with valleys, many of them partly submerged and surrounded by steep, almost vertical cliffs. Exploration of caves at different altitudes has revealed archaeological traces of human activity over a continuous period of more than 30,000 years. They illustrate the occupation of these mountains by seasonal hunter-gatherers and how they adapted to major climatic and environmental changes, especially the repeated inundation of the landscape by the sea after the last ice age. The story of human occupation continues through the Neolithic and Bronze Ages to the historical era. Hoa Lu, the ancient capital of Viet Nam, was strategically established here in the 10th and 11th centuries AD. The property also contains temples, pagodas, paddy-fields and small villages.

8:00 – 8:30: Our tourist bus will pick you up at your hotel in Hanoi Old quarter departure for Bai Dinh Pagoda. You will have a short break on the half way for 30 minutes for relaxing.

10:20 – 10:30: Arrive in Buddha Prayer place in Bai Dinh Pagoda, the biggest pagoda in Vietnam with 500 La Han statues, biggest bronze Buddha statue in Vietnam with 10 meters in height, 100 tons in weight.You will have free time with our english speaking tourguide to visit this pagoda and learn more about buddism religion.

11:50 – 11:55: Get on your tourist bus go to the restaurant in Ninh Binh

12:15 – 12h20 : Have lunch in local restaurant with some local special dishes such as Goat meat with elderberry, pork ….

13:20 – 13:25: Keep going to visit Trang An tourist attraction, take boat trip to visit Trang An cave complex and the scene of King Kong film. They have a lot of beautiful Stalactites and stalactites with different calorful.

15:30 – 15h40: Come back Trang An wharf, you have opportunity to bike around Beautiful village and enjoy Vietnamese tea break .

17h00 - 17h10: Get on the tourist bus for returning to Hanoi.

19h20 - 19h30: Drop you off your hotel.