Cycling to Hanoi Co Loa Citadel

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HANOI BICYCLE TOURS
Cycling to Co Loa Citadel (1 day)

The one day bicycle tour, provided by the Hanoi based tour operator Lotussia Travel takes you to the outskirts of
Hanoi. Begin the tour with a taxi transfer from your hotel to our bike store. Then you start your Hanoi urban adventure
visiting some local houses, bonsai garden, going through villages lanes before embarking on a local ferry to the other
side of Vietnam's capital. Just after one hour cycling, you find yourself in the outskirts of Hanoi, the Hanoi rural area.
Cycling along Duong dykes, through agricultural villages, rice fields and meeting up with local friendly people.
Opportunity to visit Co Loa citadel before taking another biking trail to get back to Hanoi. The day biking tour is
recommended for small groups touring, family travel, holidays with kids or those loving outdoor, active, fun tour to
the rural Hanoi.



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7:00 am you will be met up with Lotussia Travel guide at your hotel in Hanoi (please inform us your hotel name). After
a short briefing about the bike, gears and the biking trail, you will begin your adventure by pedaling from your hotel to
the other side of the Red River (for those who are not familiar with cycling in the city where the traffic is quite busy,
we recommend booking a support vehicle. The extra charge will be advised by your Lotussia Travel consultant when
you book the tour).

After about a half hour, you will leave the Hanoi busy town behind. You cycle across the Long Bien Bridge, the first
steel bridge spanning the Red River in Hanoi, built by the French (1899-1902) and named for Doumer, read as though-
love (the name of Governor Paul Doumer Indochina).

Once you are on the other side of the town, you will cycle along the dyke, goring into the rural area of Hanoi.

Visiting an ancient village that is located by the Red river will help you know further the real life of Vietnamese people.
You may want to visit a master of martial who practices Vietnamese Kungfu for years or a retired person who has lots
of beautiful Bonsai.

Then take a ferry crossiing the Duong river. You will arrive in the area where people live of agriculture. You cycle from
villages to villages, through rice fields and friendly people. You will arrive Co Loa citadel around noon. This old fortress
attracts many foreign tourists for its historical and cultural value. It would be interesting for tourist to find that this
Citadel is not only built in a large scale, but also took a very long time to construct. Especially, it has also been the
source of various relics of the Dong Son culture of the Bronze Age. This would be a precious chance for tourists to
explore such large site and its potential beauty. This spiral-shaped complex will take you to the mysterious ancient
Vietnam thousands of years ago.

Lunch will be provided in a local restaurant or picnic lunch can be arranged.

In the afternoon, it is possible for you to cycle for some more kilometers before being picked up by our vehicle and
transferred back to your hotel in Hanoi. The end of Lotussia Travel service.

For more details either visit www.cyclinghanoi.com or www.lotussiatravel.com

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