- Tour type: Private
- Transfer distance: around 20km/ way from city center
- Cycling distance: 15km – 30 km (depends on clients). Biking level: Easy
- Duration: 5 hours (08.00 A.M – 12.30 P.M or 13:30 hrs – 18:00 hrs)
- Meals: Lunch
- Best time to do: Year round possibly, but the best time is from October to April.
Depart from hotel, leave behind the hustle & bustle of the city to the outskirt where a small village locates, on the left bank of the Red river- Bac Bien Village. Welcomed coffee, tea and snacks while being given a briefing session and self-introduction and about his village, tour, bikes.
Start pedaling through small alleys of Bac Bien village to the Duong river’s bank. Then take a local boat ferry to cross the river to its left bank.
Ride a bike along the dike, from villages to villages, where we can see many traditional typical houses; pagodas, temples, local market and be caught in the beautiful rice paddy fields, gardens of vegetables and corns.
Pedal up to a dike of the Red river, cross two villages outside of the dyke. We come in a local house in traditional style, have a conversation with the villagers to understand more about their lives, works. Enjoy relaxing under an old tree standing along the river. Before your transfer back to your hotel in Hanoi, visit a local temple where you may be lucky to see an unique ceremony of Vietnamese people –“Len Dong” or “Going into a trance”.
