8.00AM: Our Tour Guide and Driver will pick you up at your hotel, travel to Hoa Lu Ancient Capital. Along the way, we may take some stop-over for photos and refreshment while enjoying rural stunning scenery on the way. Arrive in Hoa Lu which is the former capital of Vietnam (968 – 1009) under Dinh and Le dynasties. Visit Dinh temple, Le temples and surroundings.
Have lunch at local restaurant with local food.
After lunch, take the amazing boat trip to visit Trang An Grottoes which is a gathering of 31 valleys, 50 cross-water caves, and home to 600 kinds of flora and over 200 kinds of fauna, many of them in the Red Book of Vietnam. While rowing through Trang An grotto in the quiet, fresh air of the highlands, with only the sound of birds and the oars stirring the clear water and surrounded by magnificent forested mountains upon which graze white goats, visitors enjoy a heaven on earth.
16h00: Leave Trang An and drive back to Hanoi. Arrive in Hanoi around 18.30 and our Day Trip to Hoa Lu and Trang An will finish.