Hanoi Cycling To Perfume Pagoda – 1 Day - is a vast complex of Buddhist temples and shrines built into the limestone Huong Tich mountains. It is the site of a religious festival that draws large numbers of pilgrims from across Vietnam

Pick up from your hotel at 07.30  and transfer to Hadong bike shop and start ride to Duc Wharf ( 55 km ). From here you will have a cruise on the Yen stream to Perfume mountain, with a break to visit the “registration” pagoda. The rowing boat journey takes more than 1 hour through the amazing landscape of mountains, water, and rice fields. Upon arrival, you will take a more a 1.5-hour walk up the steps to the top of the Perfume mountain to visit the Huong Tich pagoda. After exploring the cave, acknowledged as one of the most beautiful limestone caves in Northern Vietnam, you will descent back to the wharf and have lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch, you have the opportunity to visit Thien Tru, the biggest and the most worth seeing Pagoda in the area, before coming to the wharf for the boat trip to the Duc Wharf, where your vehicle is waiting. You will arrive back in Hanoi in the late afternoon.

Note: The Perfume Pagoda’s festival begins from the middle of the second lunar month and lasts until the end of the third lunar month (March and April), attaching a great number of Buddhist pilgrims. In case you prefer to visit the Pagoda in the quiet atmosphere, you would avoid coming there during its festival.