A farming day in Van Long Nature Reserve 1  day

Tour code: SEN100 | Tour Style: Short Trip

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A short trip to Van Long Nature Reserve (Ninh Binh province) from Hanoi has long been an attractive tour for nature beauty lover, who want to have interesting experience of Vietnam countryside’s daily life. Joining this day tour, you will cycle on small roads among peaceful villages and the rice field; take part in farming activities to be a real farmer before having a boat trip on the reservoir of Van Long Nature Reserve, the largest wetland of Northern Vietnam. You will have chance to be closed to nature with thousands of plants and hundreds of world-red-book animals. Don’t miss this chance to explore Ninh Binh land – an ancient capital with picturesque landscape!

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Hanoi & Vicinity

Activities: Cycling, Farming, Sightseeing
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  • Highlights:
    • Cycling to visit the villages, temples, communal house and local market;
    • Being a real farmer when joining local daily life working with farming activities;
    • Visiting a local ancient house and learning how to cook traditional northern dishes;
    • Discovering and enjoying the beauty of Van Long Nature Reserve.
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Van Long Nature Reserve, Meo Cao Mountain

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Our driver and tour guide will pick you up at your hotel in Hanoi at around 8:00 in the morning and depart to Ninh Binh Province. After a two-hour drive, you will reach stilt houses at Gia Van (Gia Vien District). There you will get your bike at around 10:00 to start your 7 kilometer cycling on a small road to visit local village, temples, pagodas and local market.

Stop at Cau Vang Hamlet you will spend about one hour joining farming activities and experiencing the local daily life such as catching crab, fishing, transplanting rice, seeding or scooping water or harvesting. You may find it confused and clumsy at first but the feeling of becoming a real farmer in rice fields will make you relaxed and interested.

After that you’ll come to a local ancient house. Here, keep your soul in a cooking demonstration with traditional dishes. Don’t miss the chance to enjoy your food and the simplicity of furniture which bring you back to peaceful atmosphere in Vietnam farmer family hundreds years ago.

In the afternoon, you will visit “Cat Scratch” mountain – the home of delacour’s langurs (in Vietnamese, called Voọc) - the precious animal in the World Red Book and then reach Van Long Wharf where you will have a boat trip along  the reservoir of Van Long Nature Reserve - the largest wetland of Northern Vietnam. The green poetic landscape with many kinds of animals will provide you with wonderful opportunities for nice photos. After the boat trip, you’ll get on the car to come back to Hanoi. The short tour is expected to be ended at 17:30 at your hotel in Hanoi.
Tour Price: Exchange rate: 1 USD = 23,345 VND (16, Dec 2018)
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Related Venues
  • 1 Van Long Nature Reserve
    Gia Vien District, Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam

    Located about 90 km from Hanoi, Van Long Nature Reserve is a land full of mysteries, is an ideal home for plants and animals. As one of the last real natural treasures in Ninh Binh, Van Long, little spoiled by the influences of tourism is worth exploring nature and agritourismin the North of Viet Nam.

  • 2 Meo Cao Mountain
    Van Long Nature Reserve, Ninh Binh

    Traveling to Van Long Nature Reserve, visitors will be impressed by the diverse shapes formed by the Nature, including the intriguing name of Meo Cao (Scratching Cat) Mountain. Its name is taken from its shape whose cliffs with uneven asperities stretching from top down looks like scratches of a cat.

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