Meals: Lunch at local restaurant
Transfer: Private vehicle and boat
Activities for today
Depart at 7.30am, drive to Perfume Pagoda. Enjoy a 1.5 hours boat trip on Yen stream and visit Trinh temple. Then climb up the mountain to visit pagoda inside Grotto HuongTich, the most beautiful cave, where people often come to pray for health, luck, prosperity... etc. Take a telpher back to Thien Tru for lunch, then visit Thien Tru Pagoda and scenery of Holiest in the country. Back to Hanoi, stop at Van Phuc - the Traditional Handicraft Silk Village on the way. Arrive in Hanoi at 19.00.
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+ Perfume Pagoda is a vast complex of Buddhist temples and shrines built into the limestone Huong Tich mountains. It is the site of a religious festival which draws large numbers of pilgrims from across Vietnam. The centre of the Huong Temple lies in Huong Son Commune, Mỹ Đức District, former Hà Tây Province (now Hanoi). The centre of this complex is the Perfume Temple, also known as Chua Trong (Inner Temple), located in Huong Tich Cave.
+ Van Phuc is a village traditionally associated with silk weaving in Hà Đông, 8 km south-west of Hanoi. In Vietnamese it is called both làng lụa Vạn Phúc "Van Phuc silk village" and làng lụa Hà Đông after the larger village ("làng") area name. It is the best known silk village in Vietnam, and one of the best developed and most visited craft village near Hanoi which has over 90 officially designated handicraft villages
