Cycling Tours in Ha Noi
Looking for Ha Noi’s specific characteristics
The cheap price is not the reason for the development of cycling tour, but its convenience is really what attract visitors. They can hang around every corner of Ha Noi to enjoy city’s specific characteristics.
“Taking a sightseeing tour of Ha Noi by bicycle brings special pleasures to visitors. There is nothing like the hustles and bustles you see in other cities. There are not many places for entertainment, but a lot of ancient and quiet beauties which require deep knowledge of history and culture to understand,” said Robert Elliott, an Australian visitor.
According to Ms Huong Giang of Diep Tran Tourist Company, her regular customers are foreign visitors and students who are living in Ha Noi. They are quite familiar with Vietnamese customs, able to speak the language and find their ways around, and want to penetrate into Ha Noi’s life.
To meet visitors’ demands
Most bicycles for rent business are located around Ha Noi’s old quarters, such as Dinh Liet, Hang Bac, Hang Be, etc. Every shop has 5-7 or up to tens of bicycles. The shops get very busy during the day. 
It is very easy to rent a bicycle. Visitors have to leave their passports and no contracts are needed.
The rental rate is US$5-8/day for mountain bikes, which are intended for long-day tours of 5-7 days from Ha Noi to Sapa or Mai Chau. And the prices of VND20, 000-50,000/ day are for tours around Ha Noi or to city’s adjacent areas of Bat Trang pottery village, 10 km from
According to Ms Nguyen Thi Binh, from the Ha Noi Tourism Department, tourist companies are developing the ecological cycling tours from Ha Noi to provinces of Bac Ninh, Ninh Binh, Hoa Binh and Lao Cai.
Ha Noi's Tourism Department has investment plans to develop Soc Son Recreational Area. This is the surrounding area of
The project is to serve the increasing demand of local visitors from Ha Noi and adjacent provinces as well as visitors to
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