Buddhism pilgrimage – Perfume pagoda tour with lunch

Unlike popular visits to temples, a pilgrimage excursion to the Perfume Pagoda is a combination of religious pilgrimage, slow boat trip between poetic mountains and streams, and light climbing exercises.

Picked-up at your hotel and head West of Hanoi for about 70km. As soon as the city traffic is over, you will be passing by nicely tranquil rural villages, paddy fields with hospitable people until reaching the Yen Vy Wharf, from where we take a boat downstream to Duc Wharf and start our light climbing up to Huong Tich Grotto, a sacred place for every Northern Vietnamese. Lunch en route.

The whole trip may take 8 hours until coming back to your hotel in Hanoi. February, March and June are to avoid as there's too many people and too much going on due to festive time plus the heat of the summer.