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Hoa Lu- Tam Coc 1 Day Tour

Hoa Lu- Tam Coc 1 Day Tour

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Hoa Lu is some 110km or 2.5 hours bus from Hanoi. Located near the Ninh Binh city, Hoa Lu is the site of a 10th-century capital of an ancient Vietnamese Kingdom called Dai Co Viet. This small Kingdom covered an area of only 300 hectares, and reigned from the 10th century, during the Dinh and Le dynasties, to the 11th century, during the Ly Dynasty. The Kingdom was enclosed by a citadel. The citadel and the Yen Ngua limestone hills provided good defence for this kingdom against the invaders. Not much of this ancient kingdom is left standing. There are two 17th century temples, modelled after their 11th-century originals that are on most itineraries to Hoa Lu. They are the Dinh Tien Hoang Temple (King Dinh temple) and Le Hoan Temple (King Le Temple).
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Ages 5-80, max of 25 per group
Duration: 10h
Start time: Check availability
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Live guide: English
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  • Lunch
  • Landing and facility fees
  • Bikes
  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Entry/Admission - Ninh Binh
What's not included
  • Tips for tour guide and driver
  • Personal Expenses
  • Drinks


Start:Multiple pickup locations offered.
  • Phố Cầu Gỗ, P. Cầu Gỗ, Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội, Vietnam
Hotel pickup offered
During checkout you will be able to select from the list of included hotels.
    End:This activity ends back at the meeting point.

      • Not wheelchair accessible
      • Near public transportation
      If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 198450P4

      • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
      • Not recommended for travelers with back problems
      • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
      • No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
      • Most travelers can participate
      • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
      • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 25 travelers

      • For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.

      If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 198450P4

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      Itinerary
      • 1
        08:30 – Our guide will meet you at your hotel/stay and start 120km modern bus-journey through verdant landscape. Stop over for a rest on the way. 10:30 – Arrive Hoa Lu, once ancient capital of Vietnam dating back to the 11th century. Having been eroded over the millennia, the dilapidated ruins have nearly been absorbed by the spectacular scenery creating a mystical atmosphere that will besure to titillate your imagination, visit King Dinh and Le Temple. 12:00 – Enjoy a lavish buffet lunch in a local restaurant, a great place to savor the intense flavours of Vietnamese food then go to Tam Coc for a stunning boat trip. 13:00 – Board the sampan boats, owned by locals, gently sailing along Ngo Dong river, capturing the wonderful scenery of Karst hills, rice fields, and peaceful villages, and passing “Hang Ca”, “Hang Hai” and “Hang Ba”. 15:00 – Leisurely cycling on country road around village 16:00 – Get on shuttle bus to return to Hanoi 18:30 – Drop off at your hotel/ accommodation’s door steps in Hanoi Old Quarter. Trip ends.
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      • Vietnam Packages Tour
        19
        Hanoi, Vietnam
        Joined in September 2014
      • Regency58
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        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Mekong one day tour
        Very good value trip, good insight into Mekong delta . Tour guide TANH was excellent and professional .lot of different things and culture to see.
        Written January 6, 2023
      • Ali921
        0 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Excellent service
        Collected from hotel on time at 8.30am. Spent the whole day touring the city and back to hotel at 5pm. Saw all the major sites. Treated to a great lunch. Minibus had a/c and free water. Guide was friendly. Pace did not feel rushed. Certainly didn't feel that I had to return to any of the sites visited as we had amble time.
        Written November 29, 2022
      • CharlesEmory
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        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        A Great Travel Experience!
        Our recent trip to Vietnam was amazing. It was a great experience. Excellent arrangements at every point of interaction.
        Written August 8, 2019
      • Luis M
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        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Great tour organizations skills; Very responsible and reliable.
        Chung and Mai, who run VietRice Travel, are very responsible and committed to their work. You can rely on them to organize your tour and finalize any details. They will greet you in the morning with goodies and take care of your needs (if their office if your pick-up place); they will make all the necessary calls, and all needed arrangements for you. My impression is that they genuinely care you have a good experience and they seem to be very honest and straight forward in their dealings. We booked our Ha Long Bay and Hoa Lu/Tam Coc tours with them and all went very well. I will highly recommend them for your bookings.
        Written December 12, 2016
      • Timmy M
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        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Excellent
        Mr Chung and Mrs Mai wear very helpful to me in organising my ha long bay trip...would highly recommend seeing them! Tim
        Written December 2, 2016
      • ruty21
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        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        VietRice Travel! Best travel agency in Hanoi!
        Welcoming, friendly, polite, helpful, kind, warmhearted, hard working, dynamic are words that best describe the staff at VietRice Travel....Mr Chung & Ms Mai are absolutely amazing and the best people I met in Vietnam!!!! They always welcome me with open arms, fresh fruits, water and I also had the privilege to share an amazing dinner with them. They really take care of their customers from the beginning to the end. The icing on the cake, all the services offered are really great. I booked a boat tour in Halong Bay, a trekking in Sapa and a flight from Hanoi to Phu Quoc island. Everything was perfect!!! To sum up, I highly recommend this agency in Hanoi! Thanks a lot VietRice, it was such a fantastic time! Hope to come back again!!!!!
        Written April 22, 2016
      • AndrewTeeter
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        1.0 of 5 bubbles
        Lied to, took our money and sent us to the wrong city
        I just had a similar experience to the last review talking about the two boat tours. Short story, I bought a bus ticket, Ms. Mai lied about what bus we would ride, ended up in the wrong city, and she didn't compensate me anything. Me and my partner wanted a bus to Luang Prabang. The picture on her desk showed three rows of individual lounge chairs on a very nice looking bus. We ended up on the floor near the engine with 3 other people next to us sweating for 22 hours. We were the only people on that bus going to LP, because why would you ever go to Vientiane first? So we arrived in Vientiane, bus manager got us a taxi to the other bus station which took almost 2 hours to get to. We walk in and show the counter our ticket and she laughs at us and says "So what? I don't know them." I believe the bus manager gave our taxi driver the cash for our connecting bus, and stole it when we got out of the taxi and he drove away. So we had to buy our own ticket to LP. Overall we paid $140 for two people to Luang Prabang, $80 overpaid, and it took 36 hours. (paid $50 to LP but only went to Vientiane which should have cost only $30. Then bought our own ticket from V to LP for another $20 each) Like the other boat tour review, I believe this company intentionally fill tours even though it isn't what you wanted. In my case there was no available bus to LP, so she just sent us to Vientiane anyways. She never gave any details about the connection or what the bus ride would be like. If you buy a tour or bus ticket from this company, you don't actually know what you're getting... I guess they would never tell you "no sorry it's not available" because they just want your money.
        Written April 8, 2016
      • RoseannaLS1
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        1.0 of 5 bubbles
        Liars.
        I highly recommend not booking through this agency. They totally scammed me, my boyfriend and friend. We had sat down and discussed at length how we wanted to visit both Halong bay and Bai tu long Bay and finally settled on a package. We paid 130$ expecting to leave on a luxury boat the next day. We were ready for 8am and at 20 past the transfer collected us shouting saying we were late and they'd been there 3 times to get us since 7:30, but we were told 8. We got on the bus to be told that wasn't our guide or group, we will have a different one on arrival. Once on the boat we were talking to another couple when we realised we were on the wrong boat. We asked our guide if we were due to go to bai tu long Bay and he laughed and said no no we don't go there. By this point we were half way through the first afternoon and couldn't change anything. The tour guide rang the travel company and the manager took responsibility and we arranged to meet them to discuss their 'mistake' the day we arrived back to Hanoi. When we arrived at the agent in the afternoon there was no sign of the manager and a male member of staff had been told to offer us 5$ compensation!! This, as you can imagine, was in no way an adequate result. He then rang his manager who continued to argue down the phone with my friend, but despite all efforts of explaining our disappointment, we were only compensated 10$ pp after we paid a lot of money for the wrong tour and ruined our trip.
        Written March 19, 2016
      • ejg402
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        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Off the beaten track
        Hi there fellow travelers, I selected Mr. Chung - Vietrice Travel - for the third time, and boy they are really good. This time he took me to areas that are not commonly visited by western tourists. First to the Ke Rho rain forest and the second trip to Thung Nai - Hoa Binh. The latter can be easily combined on a tour that could include Mai Chau and Nim Binh if you like. Chung takes care of everything and can also act as a interpreter that will make communication with local people very convenient and adds to your experience. I can only warmly recommend Chung and Vietrice Travel. Ernst G The Netherlands
        Written October 10, 2015
      • Or W
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        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        The BEST agency in Hanoi!
        Mr. Chung & his wife Ms. Mai are running the most honest, cheap and reccommended agency in Hanoi. We booked with them a cruise at Halong Bay, a food tour in Hanoi and some flight, taxi and bus tickets. The prices are the best you can find in Hanoi and the guides and companies they work with are the most professional (safe and english speaking) and nice you can find in Hanoi. But the most important thing is - Mr. Chung and Ms. Mai are the most kind people we met in our trip in Vietnam. They always welcome us with some fresh fruits and drinks at their office and check ip on us every few days to see that we get everything we need during our stay. Look no further! This agency is the best in Hanoi, and probably the best in whole of Vietnam.
        Written September 13, 2015
      • Fifthwave
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        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Great travel service in Hanoi
        Hanoi would have not been the same without VietRice Travel. Mai booked for us a great trip to Halong Bay at great prices on a wonderful cruise. Chung gave us a fantastic tour of Hanoi that included historical sites like the Ho Chi Mihn mausoleum and home. He knows history very well and provided the local insights that answered my personal questions of life in Vietnam today. We also took the fabulous street food tour where we enjoyed amazing food like Pho soup, Egg coffee, various seafood and desserts. We could enjoy night walks with both of them in Hanoi that leave us with memories we otherwise could not have. I highly recommend you stop at VietRice in Hanoi for your travel needs and enjoy great friendly people to help you there.
        Written June 27, 2015
      • ChengHeng
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        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Helpful and Friendly
        Went for a 10 days trip at Hanoi with my partner. Am really impressed by services provided by VietRice Travel as they are able to plan an itinerary according to our preferences and needs. All we provided are the flight details and Miss Mai have the other planning covered. From the moment we touch down Hanoi Airport on the first day till the last day of our trip. With that we managed to cover various attractions we wanted to visit in Sapa and Halong Bay. Viet Rice Travel is a reliable agency which arranged smoothly all our traveling modes and accommodation while traveling in different areas in Hanoi. We would definitely recommend them to all who would like to visit Hanoi.
        Written January 4, 2015
      • Chris M
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        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Highly reccommend this tour operator.
        Was just passing by and called into Vietrice by chance, we (family of five) wanted a HaLong Bay cruise. We dealt with Ms Mai who explained the options and costs and wrote everything down. A couple of days later we called back into the office as we had decided to go ahead with the tour - the next day. The cruise was through Paragon and I can say that despite the short notice everything was as she had advised us or better, there was no disappointment or extra costs. The guide was excellent, we were very happy with the service and would certainly use this company again. We ended up staying on for four more days in Hon Gai / HaLong Bay after the cruise and they still brought us back on the transfer bus to Hanoi at no additional charge.
        Written December 30, 2014
      • Mengkitt-8888
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        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Have a great moment in Hanoi
        I love this Tour guide, he is helpful kindly and give me best price for the Tour.. I strongly recommended this travel agency for my friend who want travel Vietnam next time..
        Written November 2, 2014
      • tian705
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        4.0 of 5 bubbles
        Great Travel Agency in Hanoi
        Viet Rice Travel provides good service and tour packages at good prices. Despite running on a tight schedule in Hanoi, Viet Rice Travel was able to plan an itinerary according to our preferences and needs. With that we managed to cover various attractions we wanted to visit in Sapa and Halong Bay in just 4 days. Ms Mai and Mr Chung are very friendly and very helpful as well. They offered a shelter for us at the agency when we arrived back to Hanoi City early from our train ride from Sapa even though they usually do not operate so early. In addition, they very kindly allowed us to drop our bags at the agency as we went on to explore Hanoi City area before our flight back. On our last day, they also helped us book a reasonably priced and very comfortable cab to the airport. Viet Rice Travel is a reliable agency which arranged smoothly all our traveling modes and accommodation while traveling in different areas in Hanoi. We would definitely recommend them to all who would like to visit Hanoi.
        Written October 21, 2014
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