Tour type:                            Private
Transfer distance:            around 115km whole tour
Duration:                            9 hours (8:00 hrs – 17:00 hrs)
Meals:                                  Lunch
Best time to do:                 Year round possibly, but the best time is from October to April for cooler weather.

Morning, we leave Hanoi to visit Duong Lam village (60km far from city center), a purely agricultural village of the Northern Red. Explore village where still preserve many hundred-year-old houses. It will be your unique experience as you walk along tiny ancient alleys; visit Mong Phu temple in Mong Phu hamlet – the only hamlet whose original village entrance gate remains intact, dedicated to national heroes. Have some talks with the locals in their ancient houses by visiting the ancient houses there. Lunch at local house with traditional Vietnamese food, this allows you to experience the true atmosphere and taste as you savor this wonderful Vietnamese dish in its most traditional form for meals of Vietnamese normal life. After lunch, drive back Hanoi to visit Thang Long Royal Citadel has been recognized as a world Cultural heritage site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Continue to Temple of Literature, the Vietnam’s first university established within the temple in 1076 to educate the mandarin class. The university functioned for more than 700 years, from 1076 to 1779 during which a good number of 2,313 doctors graduated. Then, stop to visit Tran Quoc pagoda and Quan Thanh Temple after that approach Chau Long – one of the oldest local market of Hanoi, you will witness how lively a local market in the city.