9:30 – Our driver will pick you up at your hotel/homestay in Ninh Binh.
10:30 – Arrive Glimmering Bai Dinh pagoda complexes, the largest pagoda, not only in Vietnam but also in Southeast of Asia. Scenically set on the foot hill of Dinh Mountain surrounded by amazing views of the exquisite river valley below and dotted and the limestone karsts dotted around which will take your breath away.
This pagoda complexes stunningly boast a array of the most massive and magnificent architecture of Vietnamese tradition refined ever built that it take a full day to explore all. So you will visit some of the highlights that owned the national:
– 500 stone statues of “La Han” (Arhats)
– 2 huge bronze bells, one weighs 27 tonnes, other weighs 36 tones.
– Visit The Quan Yin statue with thousands arms and eyes.
– Visit Gautama Buddha satatue.
With sacred atmospheres and intriguing Buddhism storey which presented by Our insider guide, you cannot fail to enchant.
12:00 –Free time for lunch
13:15 – Leave for the Trang An Grottoes, an out-standing natural beauty of majestic limestone massif at 20 square kilometre rise dramatically out from rice paddy fields. Deep into the linked chains of towering mountain are pristine places of mystical valleys, numerous fresh water ponds, and jungle.
Embark on a traditional sampan gently roweddown the exquisite river through numerous caves: Hang Toi ( Dack ) cave, 320 metre long, Sang (light) cave, 90 metre
long, and Hang Nau Ruou (Cooking wine) cave, 250 metre long… Every passages bring new surprise of mystery hidden inside isolated valleys of tranquility that likely transformed to the other world and time. The fauna and flora is rich and a scene of a goat jumping from one cliff to the other is a common sight.
15:30 – Arrive Mua Cave and start an amazing trek up to the top of Ngoa Long mountain for watching the spectacular rice valley with sprecious view of the nature.
17:00 – Return to our bus and then come back to your hotel/homestay in Ninh Binh
17:30 – Drop you off at your hotel/homestay. Trip ends.