Biking Ho Chi Minh to Ha Noi 15 days/ 14 nights

Begins your bike trip with a an hour transfer that takes you to the Mekong Delta to see Vietnam's agriculture, rice bowl. Explore the Mekong Delta region and its people by bicycle, visit a local family workshop, colourful Khmer temples, and daily life before a boat ride to a floating market.

Arrives in a rural village in Tan An, pick up the bikes,  adjust the saddle to fix your heights. A morning countryside biking takes you along scenic paths through the picturesque farming season; rice paddies, dragon fruit, and vegetable plantations, and, we will stop for lunch in My Tho city.

Our cycling adventure starts in the rural village of Mo Cay rural Dist, Ben Tre province, in the afternoon. Your guide will choose shady pathways to cycle through the jungle-like plantations on smaller foot paths of banana's coconuts. It has bike paths criss-cross its land, and these paths link village to village. We will ride on the track through water palm, village, and sharing space for locals on little ferries that too small for a group of 8. Relax your legs on the last ferry taking you to the other side of Tra Vinh city.

Tra Vinh province is the homeland of the Khmer minority, where most of them follow original Buddhism- Theravada. Khmer people lives rely on agriculture and gardening. Today, you take your time to visit family at villages, take the photo, and see pagodas on the pathway through lovely green rice paddy field and peaceful scenery. Today allows you to get close to Khmer farmers and understand the difference between Theravada and Mahayana.

In the afternoon, we cycle on the back road through fruit orchards, vegetable fields and cross some mall natural creeks with locals on ferries. These ferries are the daily means of transport in rural areas. Have a short transfer to Can Tho city in the late afternoon.
 

The famous floating market of Cai Rang has yearly attracted millions of tourist because of a real floating market. After breakfast at the hotel, we check out for a boat ride to Cai Rang floating market. Locals from rural villages usually take their farm products to this market by boat in the early morning. This is an opportunity you can activities surroundings are in action; sellers and buyers are exchange goods from boat to boat. You could see many little wooden boats move up and down and try to find good dealers for business.

Our private vehicle with the team will take you to Binh Minh town, where a half-day ride through lovely vegetable farms, with a ferry crossing river from village to village. Visit a non-tourist workshop that locals use water hyacinth to make hats, handbags. Have lunch in town and we'll transfer 1.hour to Vinh Long town, take take a ferry to An Binh Island and contine the day experience the people lives on the Island.

Our private vehicle with the team will take you to Binh Minh town, where a half-day ride through lovely vegetable farms, with a ferry crossing river from village to village. Visit a non-tourist workshop where locals use water hyacinth to make hats and handbags. Have delicious lunch at the local home. We'll transfer 1. hour to Vinh Long town, take a ferry to An Binh Island and continue the day experiencing the people's lives in Binh Hoa Phuong, Dong Phu villages before a second ferry takes us to Cai Be township, where we will ride to visit Ba Kiet, the ancient house. Taste seasonal fresh fruits and coffee and learn more about the Mekong Delta's typical traditional house and how to preserve the house after many generations

Ho Chi Minh is the country's largest city, and its traffic is too busy almost all day. we should depart from the hotels at 7:00 am, so we save time for the countryside. As we are leaving HCM as earlier, the weather is fantastic for us to explore the stunning scenery. So you will spend more time exploring the stunning countryside, beautiful villages on the back roads, after 1.5 hours by vehicle towards to Trang Bom Dist, Dong Nai province. The morning ride is lovely cycling as you riding through different rural areas, through a rubber plantation, ride paddy fields, teak tree plantation, tapioca plant fields, and passing tiny rural villages along the way to Doc Mo, highway 1A.

Take a transfer to the next La Nga town for lunch. Have 30 minutes transfer to Dinh Quan's rural village for the afternoon ride. We follow small back roads through chili paper, coffee plantations, and volcanic rocks down to Dong Nai River in the afternoon. The countryside is quiet and lush farmlands, small tracks alongside the river, rice paddies, and avocado orchards in Ta Lai village. Your guide will figure out the transfer to Nam Cat Tien before dark, check-in at the hotel. Join the night spotting tour by jeep to see wildlife that people rarely see. Return to hotel for dinner and overnight in the park.

Nam Cat Tien is the largest park of lowland tropical rainforests in southern Vietnam, and it is also the home to flora and fauna. The Javan rhinoceros still exists in the Cat Loc area, the last remaining population of this species on the Asian mainland. Other mammals include several primate species, including the endemic golden-cheeked gibbon, elephant, gaur, and tiger.

Cat Tien Part is an ideal location to enjoy nature. Birds' singing wakes you up in the morning, then take a 1-hour boat ride on the Dong Nai River, and it is the right time to learn more about the wildlife of animals; monkeys, peacocks, snacks, and many types of birds go for food. Return to the hotel for breakfast, check out, load your luggage on vehicles, and be ready for the ride through the jungle. Your guide will lead you to ride at your own pace, stopping at some points where you will see the giant trees and learn more about flora and fauna.

We follow the dirt track through canopy trees, corn fields, and cashew plantations, then to sub Nam Cat Tien Park, fruit orchards, to Dak Lua. Have a water and fruit stop before we ride to Cat Tien Archaeological Site, and your guide will tell you more about it. Lunch is a bit late today in Madagui town after 1-hour transfer. Following lunch, we rest on the vehicle to Dalat, stopping in Bao Loc town.

We do check out the hotel and an hour vehicle transfer to the northeast of Dalat. Our bike challenge is to start in Bidoup National park. We ride rolling hills through pine forest, green farms and valleys, and tropical forest before we have a vehicle transfer to the peak to avoid the short route but most challenging pass. Enjoy spectacular scenery, and then we ride down on 29km. Khanh Le (hon Giao) Pass offers fantastic biking through spectacular mountain ranges and breathtaking views down to the coast. After riding down the pass, we stop for a lunch restaurant by the River.

In the afternoon, we pedal into countryside villages near foothills and along the river, past sugar cane fields and a small suspension bridge to local markets to Dien Khanh. Finally, we get on a support vehicle to have a transfer to Nha Trang city.

Spend a fun-filled day exploring the beautiful coastal waters of Nha Trang. Join a boat trip to visit nearby islands, where you’ll have the chance to snorkel, swim, and admire colorful coral reefs in the clear, warm sea. Enjoy a fresh seafood lunch served on the island, giving you a taste of the local culinary delights in a stunning natural setting. In the afternoon, return to the pier and transfer back to your hotel. The evening is yours to relax or discover Nha Trang at your own pace.

Quy Nhon is well known for its beautiful countrysides, long beautiful coastal routes and lovely landscape along the lagoon. It creates terrific views along the coastline, lagoons, beautiful sandy beaches, and scenic spots that attract bicycle lovers all year round. The distance between Nha Trang to Quy Nhon is a really long way, with varied terrain routes through rustic villages and stunning coats. So your bike guide will cut off some and choose the best for our best adventure of today. Today ride will divide into 2 sections—25 km in the morning and 45 km in the afternoon with an hour transfer at midday.

Leave the hotel at 7: 30 am for 1.5 hours vehicle transfers to a bit of town and start to ride. The bike route in the morning takes us through a small seaside town, the farmlands of rice paddies, mountain hills. Then we follow a small trail to a tiny fishing village before cycling through salt and seafood farms to Co Ma Pass. Challenge small hill- Co Ma Pass, and ride down to Da Lanh beach for lunch. The pass is less traffic because there is vehicle tunnels.

After lunch, to avoid the heat, you rest on the vehicle for 1 hour transfers to a small village to enjoy 45 km charming villages. You will cycle on the beautiful road along the lagoon. View the colour fishing boats and lush farmlands along the routes. It's fantastic bike routes through the fascinating countryside and lively lagoon with several fishing sampans. Further, the back road undulates across farmlands of rice, vegetable, and before cross the River on Tiger wooden bridge to the high road where we, end up the day, and hop on vehicle and will transfer to Qui Nhon City in the late afternoon.

Today, we begin with a short transfer from the city to Phuong Mai peninsula on Thi Nai Bridge. The longest sea bridge in Vietnam. Quy Nhon and Quang Ngai provinces, located in the middle of Vietnam, offers beautiful seaside landscapes, lush green farmland, fantastic local beaches and stunning coasts. The ride will divide into two sections. In the morning is 35 km and 30 km in the afternoon. There is an hour transfer at midday to avoid the heat and cut off some routes to choose the most beautiful countryside to ride.

In the morning, the ride starts on smooth undulate roads along the Thi Nai lagoon, view the vast lake, particularly alongside the lagoon, the colourful Linh Son Pagoda in the lowland where we gaze down the lagoon. The lagoon and it's lake offer a chance of exploring tiny villages along small paths to Cat Tien. Then we follow the coast route, pass the War Memorial state and a giant buddha state, great for the photo taken.

Ride rolling small hill with magnificent mountain views, through rice paddy fields and peanut farmlands and break before cycling through removed villages with lunch before a transfer to next destination for the afternoon's ride. Continue cycling just a few km, and we will stop at a small village with hundreds of colourful small sampans and circular bamboo boats. Then we carry on cycling through poplar jungle to coast route and follow concrete path to Tra O lagoon.  We end today's ride at My Duc village and spend the rest on vehicle transfer to Quang Ngai.

The morning starts with a short drive to the My Lai Massacre Memorial for 30 minutes visit. We cycle through rice fields and authentic villages, and beautiful countryside. The paths are flat, giving you a more leisurely ride at your own pace, past many houses with stacks of straw for buffalos and cows. You can learn more about local culture and meet friendly people in their homes before we head to the coast and have some ferry crossing to little fishing villages along rivers. This is your endless photo opportunity with many little sampan and bamboo basket fishing boats alongside the river and on local beaches. Lunch en route to Hoi An.

After some ferries to and out of the Islands, we stay on small paths by the River, passing tiny fishing hamlets with numerous fishing boats along the River. The River and its branches offer terrific views of bamboo boats, wooden boats, and small fishing villages. The family members are very busy when fishing boats come back. Fishermen's wives help them hang the fish to dry some, primarily fresh, are for sale. We have lunch at a local beach. We spend more time exploring the lush farmland rice paddies and less time on coastal fishing routes, enjoying the idyllic scenery of rustic villages along the Truong Giang River. In the late afternoon, you explore the backwaters of Thu Bon River, particularly the Cam Kim island that the iconic carpentry and traditional woodcarving. The island is famous for charming villages, old-fashioned agricultural irrigation canals, and small fishing villages with colorful fishing sampans amongst water palms. It's a terrific chance to explore the hidden charm villages: thatch houses, buffaloes on rice fields, bamboo bridges. We speed up Cam Kim Bridge over Thu Bon River, directly to the hotel resort where we stay two nights in Hoi An.

We'll spend a half-day exploring Tra Que village, a paradise of clean vegetables located on the outskirts of Hoi An, an ancient town. The village provides herbs and fresh vegetables to the Hoi An market. Join the locals to farm, enjoy organic cooking classes, and taste what you make!

After a leisurely breakfast, meet the team and start from the hotel. Follow the narrow lane to rural areas. Ride on the country back roads through Cam Thanh and An My villages, cross the vast green fields, and cross many small rivers and bridges to Tra Que. Your guide will take you walking around Tra Que farms so you can smell and taste the local ingredients and spend more time with locals on the farms learning about traditional cultivation methods before your cooking class. After lunch, return to the hotel and spend the rest of the day exploring Hoi An town alone.

You commence the day with an hour of vehicle drives to Da Nang city, where you warm up your body with a few km on the road before you challenge Hai Van Pass yourself, conquer 12km to the mountain tops. Hai Van Pass or Sea Clouds Pass offers spectacular landscapes on the Truong Son mountain range. The road winding up the mountain Pass to peak.

Don't worry, your support vehicles are alway behind you.

In the afternoon, we ride rolling hills before we cross Tu Hien bridge. Take a leisurely ride on shade paths through the peninsula, enjoy the natural countryside on dirt tracks along the sea—a great time to enjoy easy off the beaten track biking. This allows you to get away from the crowds and cycle through some of Hue's most stunning scenery. Then turn left and keep on, and ride the bridge to another side of the lagoon. Here we are to explore many beautiful villages that not many tourists are coming to. We will stop at some small markets and fishing villages by the lagoon. Then we continue cycling toward Hue. Ride through the rustic countryside to the outskirts of Hue, and have a transfer to City Center.

Hue was the former capital of Vietnam before 1945. It was almost totally destroyed in the Vietnam War during the Tet Offensive. It holds Vietnam's royal past treasures, including tombs and pagodas, a typical blend of Western and Oriental architecture. You first visit Purple Citadel and learn more about Vietnam's ancient and modern history. The Purple City is where only the emperor and his eunuchs, servants, and concubines were allowed. Then, we will continue to travel on the vehicle to Thien Mu Pagoda and then to Khai Dinh Tomb, stopping at some local workshops. After lunch, we'll catch the internal flight to Ha Noi.

Be met at the airport, and transferred to the hotel.

Embark on a full day of exploration in Ha Noi city, starting at 8.00 am from the hotel. We begin with a visit to the Ho Chi Minh complex, a journey through the life of this extraordinary leader. Next, we step back in time at the Temple of Literature, the first University of Vietnam and a testament to Confucianism in the country.

In the afternoon, we'll delve into the rich cultural heritage of Vietnam with a visit to the Museum of Ethnology, a treasure trove of the country's diverse ethnic groups. We'll also explore a prison with a dark past, once used by the French colonists and later by North Vietnam. Our journey continues with a visit to the iconic Opera House and the serene Ngoc Son temple at Hoa Kiem Lake.  Transfer to Noi Bai Aiport. We'll then transfer to Noi Bai Airport, marking the end of our tour