Hanoi City Tour by Motorbike or Bicycle – 3.5 Hours: Long Bien Bridge, Banana Island & Train Street

Motorbike tour: your guide explains how to sit safely on the back of the motorbike and the route for the day. Bicycle tour: we take you to our bike garage to choose a bike and explain how to ride and cross the street. The 18:00 tour is by motorbike only.

Cross Long Bien Bridge, built 1899–1902 and 1.68 km long, one of the longest bridges in Asia at the time. Then ride through a local market and backstreets.

Day tours visit Banana Island: banana plantations, fruit and vegetable farms and a floating village. Night tours visit the overnight Long Bien wholesale fruit and vegetable market.

Quang An wholesale flower market is busiest from 21:00 to 6:00 but colourful by day too. Then a loop of West Lake, Hanoi's largest lake.

Tran Quoc Pagoda, more than 1,500 years old and a symbol of Vietnamese Buddhism. At Huu Tiep Lake in Ngoc Ha, see the wreck of a B-52 bomber shot down on 27 December 1972 during the 'Dien Bien Phu in the air' campaign.

Stop outside the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum to learn about his life and the building, then Train Street, lined with cafés beside the tracks. Bicycle tours end here: cycle back to the garage and ride back to your hotel by motorbike.

Motorbike tours add two stops, at the start or the end: St Joseph's Cathedral, begun in 1886 and Hanoi's oldest church, and the Hanoi Opera House, a landmark of French architecture.

The tour ends at your hotel in the Old Quarter.