Hanoi Trip Overview
– Driving deeply into Red River Delta
– Private rowing Sampan along Yen Stream
– Hiking to Thien Tru (Heaven’s kitchen) Pagoda
– Hiking/cable car to Huong Tich cave within the main pagoda of Perfume pagoda
– Lunch at a local restaurant
– A quick visit to Van Phuc Silk Village
Additional Info
Duration: 7 to 8 hours
Starts: Hanoi, Vietnam
Trip Category: Private & Custom Tours >> Private Sightseeing Tours
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– Driving deeply into Red River Delta
– Private rowing Sampan along Yen Stream
– Hiking to Thien Tru (Heaven’s kitchen) Pagoda
– Hiking/cable car to Huong Tich cave within the main pagoda of Perfume pagoda
– Lunch at a local restaurant
– A quick visit to Van Phuc Silk Village
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Chùa Hương (Tùng lâm Hương tích), Hương Sơn, Mỹ Đức, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
Arrive at the harbor; you will get on a small boat rowing on Yen Vi River to a mountain.
Perfume pagoda is a folk name people used to call the area. There are more than ten Buddhist pagodas and some Temples in here. Thien Tru and Huong Tich are the main ones. Festival of this complex takes part in from 1st lunar month to 3rd lunar month. During this period, many Vietnamese pilgrimage to the area. It will be very crowded. Perfume pagoda pilgrimage is considered the biggest festival in Red River Delta.
It will take 30 minutes for rowing a sampan from harbor to the main pagoda area. Along the river, it is very quite. You can hear the sound water crush into the boat. Somewhere, you see the local people plant vegetable, rice or collecting the snail, crap or mussels… One part of the river, water is very clear; you can the water plants as if there is a lush garden under the water.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Thien Tru Pagoda, My Duc Huong Son, Hanoi 10000 Vietnam
You take a hiking to the main Pagoda, Huong Tich cave. It will take you about more than 1 hour for hiking up to the mountain; with the length of the path is 2.5km. Long time ago, it was said to be the most beautiful cave in Vietnam. If you afraid of getting tired, you can choose going by cable. The best way is going up by your foot and going by cable. Fee for cable is not included. Hiking along the way, you can see a lot of tree, listen to the bird’s song and breathe the fresh air.
Lunch is followed by visiting to Thien Tru pagoda. The pagoda is considered the oldest one in Vietnam. Its name means the kitchen in the Heaven. In a patrolling to the south of a King under Le Dynasty, the King stop there and found that the pagoda is in the location of Thien Tru star group, then he named the pagoda the name of the star.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Van Phuc Silk Village, On the Nhue River, 10 Km Southwest of Hanoi Old Quarter, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
a Silk village in the suburban of Hanoi.
Duration: 30 minutes
