Bai Dinh and Trang An Day Trip with Lunch and Electric Car

Guide was nice, car also good the destination also interesting, but one thing should be improved is the lunch. Everything all nice.

trip was great, all the locations were amazing. Food for lunch was buffet style and was delicious. Highly recommend

This is a must do tour when visiting Hanoi. Great value for money and Kimi was an excellent tour guide. Highly recommend!

What a great tour! Out hotel was outside their Old City pickup area in Hanoi, so we took a 3 taxi ride to their office at 8am where someone from the tour company office met us as we exited our cab. We waited maybe 5 minutes and then were guided onto the shuttle van, which was modern and comfortable. We then picked up a few more people at their hotels and we were on the road to Bai Dinh at 8:30. After a 45 minute ride, we arrived at the temple. Our guide bought our tickets and guided us through this amazing place. You will be overwhelmed by the size of the place, the number of Buddha statues, and the solemnity and grandeur of the overall site. Be aware that you will be walking for approximately 2 miles there, so wear comfortable shoes which you can easily slip off at certain points. After about 90 minutes, we returned to the van and went on to the Trang An boat dock. You are on the backside of the mountains of Ha Long bay, so the scenery is spectacular. In high season, there are as many as 1000 4 person boats on the river, but at this time of year early December, there were only a few hundred. Each boat has a rower assigned,, mostly women, who expertly and tirelessly move your rowboat along. Passengers are encouraged to row if they choose to do so, so we did for about half of the trip. The river was serene and the setting was astounding! You will go through about a half dozen caves on the river, some so low that you will need to duck your head. Karst rock formations will be all around you. About 2/3 of the way along, you will stop at Skull Island. I'm not really clear about it, but it seems that some portions of the movie King Kong were filmed in this area. Anyways, you are turned loose on one side of Skull Island and told to meet your boat driver on the other side. You walk along a path past the restrooms and eventually come into a simulated native village where locals are dressed up and made up in what are supposed to be dangerous looking native costumes in front of their little huts. Most looked bored and uninterested until a tourist came along, when they would assume threatening poses with their spears and cell phones. They will play along for photos if you want, so give them a tip of you choose to do that. We returned to our rowboat and had another 15 minutes of river time, after which we returned to the main dock. Restrooms and refreshements are available there. We then boarded the van and were returned to the office at 1pm where they arranged for a cab back to our hotel. This was easily the best of 5 tours we booked through Viator for our 3 weeks in Vietnam and Thailand. I can't recommend it highly enough.

I like the boat trip very much. The pagoda is huge and there the lady buddha statue is impressive! Our guide is very witty, informative, and kind. Thank you very much for the memorable trip!