07.15 – 07.45 Pick up from your hotel or private address and departure to Ninh Binh. 10.00 Visiting a local family in the Tam Coc area. 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. 10:30 Leaving the family, you will take a bike and start riding to explore the rice fields and limestone mountains with a unique route. 12:00 Come back the local family, enjoy a special lunch with the local cuisine featuring the yin-yang balance of the Asian culture.  After lunch, a break with a cup of tea will be served before you continue the journey of discovery Ninh Binh. 13.30 Visit Tam Coc by a small 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.

15:30 Arrive at Hoa Lu, the ancient capital of Vietnam in the 10th century, visit the temple of King Dinh. Under the introduction of our local guide, you will get to know more about the Vietnamese history. 16.30 Leave Ninh Binh and drive straight back to Hanoi. 18:30 Arrive in Hanoi, drop you back to your hotel or private address in Hanoi. Trip ends.