Motorbike To Ha Long Bay and Cat Ba – 4 Days

Day 1: Hanoi – Hai Phong 120 km

At 8 AM, we motorcycle to the north east of Hanoi from city center, after 15 km riding we will take a visit to famous ceramic village of Bat Trang by taking a short walk around the village to see the daily life of the local people and learn more about how to make ceramic from the local.
After that, we keep going to the northeast to Hai Phong city. We will arrive hotel in Hai Phong at 3 PM. We can choose to see some good attractions in the city or have rest in hotel.
Overnight in hotel – Hai Phong

Day 2: Ha Phong – Cat Ba by Boat

After breakfast in hotel, we will take a bus to the wharf and take a speed boat to Cat Ba island. We will be in the island one hour later and right after that we join another boat trip to discover beautiful Lan Ha bay and southern part of Ha Long Bay. Sea food lunch is on the boat. All the day you can be lazy on the sun desk, do swimming at some nice beaches without tourist. See the floating fishing villages or do kayaking through some stalactite caves. We will be back to Cat Ba island in the late afternoon.
Overnight in hotel – Cat Ba.

Day 3: Discovery Cat Ba island.

After breakfast in hotel, we will have a short but great motorcycle tour around Cat Ba island.

(Cat Ba is the largest of the 366 islands spanning 260km2 that comprise the Cat Ba Archipelago, which makes up the southeastern edge of Ha Long Bay in Northern Vietnam. Cat Ba island has a surface area of 285 km2 and maintains the dramatic and rugged features of Ha Long Bay. It is commonly used as an overnight hotel stop on tours to Ha Long Bay run by travel agents from Hanoi. This island belongs to Haiphong city – the most famous city of industry in Vietnam.

Cat Ba is the largest island in the Bay and approximately half of its area is covered by a National Park, which is home to the highly endangered Cat Ba Langur. The island has a wide variety of natural ecosystems, both marine and terrestrial, leading to incredibly high rates of biodiversity. Types of natural habitats found on Cat Ba Archipelago include limestone karsts, tropical limestone forests, coral reefs, mangrove and sea grass beds, lagoons, beaches, caves, and willow swamp forests. Cat Ba Island is one of the only populated islands in Ha Long Bay, with roughly 13,000 inhabitants living in six different communes, and 4,000 more inhabitants living on floating fishing villages off the coast. The large majority of the population can be found in Cat Ba town, which is located at the southern tip of the Island (15 km south of the national park) and is the commercial center on the Island. Since 1997, Cat Ba town has grown rapidly and has become a tourist hub for both the Island and greater Ha Long Bay.)
The motorbike ride will offers you some peaceful villages located between the National park and the ocean and some beautiful caves. We should finish the motorbike tour at noon at the hotel in order to spend another half day at some beautiful beaches nearby hotel.
Overnight in Hotel – Cat Ba town.

Day 4. Boat trip back to Hai Phong and motorcycle tour back to Hanoi.

Free in the morning until 10 AM take a short walk to the speed boat wharf and then spend one and a half hour on the boat. After getting on Hai Phong city, let’s go straight to the restaurant for lunch and then get the bikes to ride back Hanoi. We will finish the great Vietnam motorbike tour to Ha Long bay and Cat Ba island at the office of Vietnam Motorbike Tour Expert in the outskirt of Hanoi, leave the bikes and gears with us and we will arrange a taxi to take you back to your hotel in the city center. Tour end at around 5:00 pm.