Explore the old capital of Vietnam, a land with many temples and beautiful natural landscapes in Short Vietnam motorbike tours from Hanoi to Ninh Binh - 2 days
We’ll set off from Hanoi at 8:30 in the morning, trace along National Highway 1A across Gie Bridge towards Phu Ly. We come across Hoang Long river, follow De road all the way to Dinh-Le Temple within the ancient Hoa Lu imperial city. This historical temple was erected in the names of two great kings in the history of ancient Vietnam. Hoa Lu ancient imperial city was the capital of ancient Vietnam for 200 years before king Ly Thai To relocated to Thang Long imperial city (now Hanoi) in 110 AD. We’ll also visit Bai Dinh temple, the largest buddhist temple in South-East Asia. We’ll park our bikes, take a tram to the temple gate and trek 500 stone steps along a corridor of arahant and buddha statues. We’ll tour the temple chambers, admire the biggest jade buddha statue in Asia, and ponder at the 12-level tower containing sarira - crystalized and gemmified buddha remains. After spending about an hour and a half at this magnificent temple, we’ll trek our way down and continue our path through Trang An landscape complex.
We can opt to take smaller, lesser known roads weaving through this jungle of pristine limestone formation. If we’re in luck and the road is flooded, we might even get to help the local catch fishes right in the middle of the road!
Once we reach the site of Tam Coc, we’ll let leave our bikes to water and hay at the stable and board bamboo woven boats and travel Thung Nang, getting lost in the novelty of green calm water and tower limestones rocks.
Afterwards, we’ll camp at Tam Coc for the night. Tam Coc is a tiny town, but it wants for nothing to make our night great: small pubs, good food, and souvenirs.
Or we can backtrack our way to Cuc Phuong National park and spend the night there, though we strongly recommend saving the trip for the next day to enjoy the scenery.
