Start a coach trip at 8:00 AM to Ninh Binh, 100 km down the South of Hanoi to see Hoa Lu Citadel, the first capital of Vietnam in the 10th century with visiting Temples of King Dinh & King Le. Lunch in Vietnamese restaurant.
In the afternoon have 2 hours rowing boat trip passing underneath of Tam Coc Caves, famous as so called “Dry Halong Bay”, the same limestone rocks lying on rice fields with a stream instead of the sea. At 3 pm return to Hanoi.