Ninh Binh – Halong 3 Days

Your tour guide and driver will pick you up at your Hanoi hotel in the morning and transport you about 100 kilometers south to Ninh Binh.

10.00 – 10.30 am Arrive at the Bai Dinh Pagoda, the largest pagoda in Vietnam, which has 500 La Han figures and a 10-meter-tall, 100-ton bronze statue of Buddha. After a brief electric vehicle ride, you arrive at the pagoda’s gate where you can spend one to two hours exploring this enormous structure.

12.30 pm Enjoy lunch in a local restaurant.

13.30 pm  Continue to Trang An, a nearby UNESCO World Heritage site renowned for its breathtaking natural beauty and picturesque karst formations, after a sumptuous lunch. Take a relaxing rowing boat out to explore the area’s beautiful waterways. An enigmatic, fairytale-like environment is created by forested limestone peaks that contrast with green water, caves, lowland, and rivers. The next stop is a network of caves with stunning stalactites in all different sizes, shapes, and colors.

Transfer to your hotel after the boat ride. Free to do as you choose.

Meal: Lunch

Tour guide: English Speaking Guide

Drive to Halong after breakfast in the hotel. You are welcomed on board the boat around 11.30–12.00, and you have a set meal while cruising through the bay. Depending on the cruise you select, the exact schedule will often involve seeing Amazing Cave, kayaking (as an optional option), swimming in crystal-clear water, and taking in the scenery. Dinner and a night’s sleep aboard the ship. Halong Bay overnight on board.

The itinerary will vary depending on the cruise you choose.

Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Tour guide: English Speaking Guide

Getting up in the bay’s fresh air and breeze, eating breakfast on board, and engaging in extra activities like kayaking or rowing. Examine the cabin, then carefully make your way back to the wharf. After lunch, check out and make your way back to Hanoi.

Meal: Breakfast, Brunch

Tour guide: English Speaking Guide