Before dinner we will take you on shopping tour through the old quarter of Hanoi. Dinner at the Thang Long Restaurant. After dinner enjoy the Water Puppet Show at Hoan Kim Lake. After breakfast we will cycle through the prettiest part of Hanoi, past the Citadel and through portions of the foreign embassies district in the southern direction to the village of My Duc and take boats to the Perfume River Pagoda about 62 km from Hanoi. The Perfume Pagoda is a complex of pagodas and Buddhist shrines built into the limestone cliffs of the Huong Tich Mountain.
Lunch is picnic style.
In the meanwhile, our bicycles are being shipped to Hue by bus. In Hue you will be met by your tour escort and transferred to the beautiful Saigon Morin Hotel situated near the Perfume River. Visit the Citadel, the imperial and forbidden purple city of the Nguyen emperors. After breakfast at the hotel you have the option of exploring the tombs of the Nguyen Emperors and take a boat ride on the Perfume River to the Thien Mu Pagoda. For those who are interested, a trip to the DMZ, the Hien Luong bridge which separated North and South Vietnam before May 75 and a visit to the Vinh Moc tunnels can be arranged.