07:00: get together at our bike store meeting point – 38c, lane 209, Doi Can street – view location

Bike and helmet preparation to begin our cycling around Hanoi.

We begin Hanoi countryside bike tour by first exit the bustling city to outskirt of Hanoi passing West Lake, Nhat Tan – Hanoi most beautiful bridge and also the former Soviet Union funded Thang Long bridge to ancient citadel and capital of Vietnam of Co Loa. You will bike on the remaining vestige of the ancient citadel where King An Duong Vuong 257-207 B.C) ruled Au Lac and villages, farms nearby.

Visit too the showroom to understand more about Au Lac, the King and his beloved daughter legendary tale.

Continue to visit fresh vegetable farm that provides majority of the vegetables of Hanoi called Tien Duong. You will have chance to learn and see farmers do their daily field work and understand more about the cultivation habit of Vietnamese.
Having lunch at local family

In the afternoon, visit Me Linh flower village which is similar to Tay Tuu and short visit to Trung Sisters temple

Trung Sisters (or Hai Ba Trung in Vietnamese, 40-43 BC) ruled the country with notable achievement of bronze drum and soldiers on the elephants. Ma Vien defeated them to begin the 2nd time rule of the Chinese against Vietnamese…

We finish our Hanoi countryside bike tour by gathering at our bike store and you return to your hotel.

Meals: Lunch
Destinations: Co Loa ancient Citadel, Tien Duong fresh vegetable village, Me Linh flower villge and Sisters Trung temple
Accomplished: 50 km