Ho Chi Minh Trail Motorcycle Tour from Hanoi to Ninh Binh – 2 days

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 cross the Hoang Long river and follow De road 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 the 12-level tower containing sarira – crystalized and gamified buddha remains. After an hour and a half at this magnificent temple, we’ll trek 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 locals catch fish right in the middle of the road!

Once we reach the Tam Coc site, we’ll leave our bikes to water and hay at the stable, board bamboo woven boats, and travel to Thung Nang, getting lost in the novelty of green calm water and tower limestone rocks.

Afterward, 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.

Explore the majestic nature and a stretch of the legendary Ho Chi Minh trail in Short Vietnam motorbike tours from Hanoi to Ninh Binh – 2 days

Once we’ve had our fills at breakfast and coffee, we’ll get back on the road, heading North-West, passing humble villages and simple bridges, crossing green paddy fields and grey limestone mountains. We’ll get to Cuc Phuong National Park with a few more fishing villages. This is the largest wildlife reserve in Vietnam, with countless species on the IUCN Red list of Threatened species. We’ll see rare one-of-a-kind apes, turtles, birds, faunas, and floras. We’ll also see the 1000-year-old Cho Chi tree (parashorea Chinensis) and prehistoric caves from the Stone age. Afterward, we’ll bid this magical forest goodbye and head back to the Ho Chi Minh trail, where it’ll take us straight back to Hanoi, concluding our two days trip through the gems of Ninh Binh province. Tour Ends.