07:15 – 07:45 Tour guide and bus pick up from your hotel or private address and departure to Ninh Binh.

10:00 Arrive Tam Coc start your first visit on a sampan boat rowed by a local for about 1.5 hours.  Known as “Halong Bay on land”, the boat trip is a nice journey along the river with the peaceful scenery of limestone mountains, rice paddy if traveling during harvest season. 12:00 Enjoy a delicious lunch served at the restaurant with Vietnamese cuisine. 14:00 Check-In Bungalow or Hotel 15:00 Visit a local family in Tam Coc. They are a traditional Vietnamese family with three generations living together. Here you will get the chance to see the house architecture and their daily life and their handicraft job of making traditional embroidery. 15:30 Leaving the family, you will take a bike and start riding to explore the rice fields and limestone mountains with a unique route.

16:30 Get on a small sampan to visit Thung Nham bird reserve, discover the most features of this area with more than 50.000 birds of 40 species flying to inhabit every day. 17:30 Cycling back to the host family for free time relax with afternoon tea break. 19:00 Dinner served with Vietnamese, then stay overnight at the bungalow or the hotel.