8:00 AM, after
breakfast, pick up from your hotel by our guide and driver. Leave for Tam Coc -
Ninh Binh province located in the Red River Delta, 110 km southward Hanoi
capital.
10:00 AM arrive at Tam Coc that means three grottoes. Board on rowing boat
for two hours and move along Ngo dong river to
enjoy the wonderful landscape of lime stone mountains called Halong bay inland.
If you come here at right time, May or June, you would be
amazed by the sea of yellow rice paddy fields on 2 sides of the water way. Our
boat will move through 3 grottoes named Hang
Ca with the length of 120 m, Hang Hai, and Hang Ba. The scenery is lovely and
peaceful that helps you relax and enjoy life.
12h15 have lunch at a
local restaurant, then proceed to Bich Dong pagoda
isolatedly stays on a mount, 2 km away from Tam Coc. Bich Dong used to be
ranked as the second most wonderful cave in the Sothern
sky.
There are three pagodas in this complex name Chùa Hạ - Chùa Trung – Chùa Thượng situated at 3 levels of
the mountain. It takes you 15 minutes to climb up the third pagoda that lies on
the top. From here you can take many nice photos of lime stone valley as well
as the rice field.
The pagoda was
constructed in early 18th century. It is in harmony with romantic
scenery of mountain, and river here. Once it was chosen for shooting a world
movie named Indochine in 1991.
14h30 PM meet with the
driver and transfer back to Hanoi. Arrive in Hanoi at around 17:00 PM. Tour ends in Hanoi.
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