Tour Code: SQNH91002 - Full Day
Tour type: Cultural Tour, AdventureTour, Spiritual Tour
Wheelchair availability: No
Experience Highlights:
● Cable Car Ride: 15 minutes (Low intensity) – Relaxing ride over lush forests and mountain terrain.
● Hike to Dong Pagoda: 1.5 hours (Moderate intensity) – Steep stone steps, gradual incline, mountain terrain at higher altitudes.
● Exploring Pagodas & Shrines: 1 hour (Low intensity) – Walking on paved paths and stone steps with gentle elevation changes.
Tour Overview:
Yen Tu Mountain is a sacred Buddhist site in the northeast of Vietnam. Enjoy a scenic cable car ride to Hoa Yen Pagoda, home to ancient frangipani trees, and hike to Dong Pagoda at the mountain’s summit. Look at the views, walk between the old pagodas and shrines, and have a vegetarian lunch. If you come during the Yen Tu Festival, early in the lunar year, expect big crowds of pilgrims.
Tour Description:
We will pick you up at your hotel for the 40 km drive to Yen Tu Mountain, a mountain with pagodas, shrines, towers and forest, in a long mountain range in the northeast of Vietnam. Your journey begins with a scenic cable car ride to Hoa Yen Pagoda, located at an elevation of 534 meters. Here you can see two big 700-year-old frangipani trees.
After soaking in the beauty, you will climb the steps to reach Dong Pagoda, perched majestically at the summit of the mountain, standing tall at 1,068 meters. Up here you have the mountains all around and the old pagodas and shrines. It is a quiet place to stop for a while.
At the top, you get a wide view of Northern Vietnam, an ideal opportunity for memorable photographs. After that, a vegetarian lunch at a local restaurant nearby, the simple food people eat at pilgrimage places.
In spring, Yen Tu attracts many visitors, particularly during the Yen Tu Festival, celebrated on the 10th day of the first lunar month, lasting until the end of the third lunar month.
Departure: 07:00
Duration: 8 hours
Price: VND 3,900,000/pax ~ USD 159/pax (min.2 pax)
* Private tour available upon request
Inclusions:
Hotel pickup and drop-off in Bai Chay area
Transportation with air-conditioning
Entrance fees
Cable car
Vegetarian Lunch
Bottled drinking water
English speaking guide (other languages available upon request with surcharge)
Travel Insurance
This tour accommodates a maximum of 15 travelers
Exclusions:
Tips and gratuities
Personal expenses such as: shopping, telephone, beverage, etc.
Children policy:
75% off for children under 1,2m
Full charge for children from 1,2m
A maximum of one child may accompany one adult; a second child will be charged the adult price
