Greetings from Hanoi: Vietnam’s thriving old colonial capital! Your designated driver and guide will pick you up at Noi Bai Airport and take you to your hotel in the city center. Check-in at an award-winning French colonial design hotel at the heart of the bustling city, the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hotel. After checking-in, explore the city and the beautiful Old Quarter filled with French-colonial structures via cyclo. Enjoy a delectable dinner in one of the best restaurants in Hanoi.

Rise early and have a hearty breakfast at the hotel, before going to Mai Chau, a valley with breathtaking green rice paddies and towering karst formations. Have a delicious lunch of Vietnamese cuisine with your host family from the Thai Tribe. After lunch, enjoy wandering around the village and meeting the locals. At 3:00 PM bike through the village and rice paddies. Return to the village to freshen up and eat a scrumptious dinner with your host family.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Accommodations: Homestay in Mai Chau
Biking: 3 hours

Have breakfast at your homestay then proceed to Nho Quan and spend the rest of the day cycling through the marvelous countryside. Go on a picnic for lunch then cycle through Cuc Phuong National Park. Bike through more of the fluvial countryside and experience what Vietnam has to offer. After Nho Quan, visit Tam Coc late in the afternoon. Check-in at the hotel and have the rest of the day to yourself.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Accommodations: Hotel in Ninh Binh
Biking: 3 to 6 hours (We offer a couple of levels to choose from easy to experience cycling)

Have breakfast then start the day like one of the locals by using sampans to row through rice fields to visit three different caves namely Hang Giua, Hang Con, and Hang Ca. Take a lunch break then bike to Bich Dong to visit a pagoda located at a mountaintop. After the visit to the pagoda, continue on your bike trail to the local villages of Hoa Lu. After biking through the countryside, return to Hanoi in the afternoon.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodations: Hotel in N/A
Biking: 3 hours