The Best Central Highlands & Southern Coast Bike Tour

Nam Cat Tien is the largest park of lowland tropical rainforests in southern Vietnam. This is a great place to get back to nature to enjoy peaceful landscapes and relax for a couple of days. Breakfast at the hotel in the morning, we have a boat ride on Dong Nai River to Dao Tien, the Monkey Island. It's the Dao Tien Endangered Primate Species Center, where you can find many naturally releasing primates. Many of them had been victims of unlawful wildlife trades but now protected carefully in the forest. Then we go back to the hotel.

Check out for off the beaten tracks bicycle riding, cycle on dirt track through lush forest, pedal on the trails along the river, then turn left, through sub-Nam cat Tien forest to Dak-Lua, the lush eco-system of a semi-evergreen forest and wetland-flooded evergreen forest. There are many stops along the trails to meet local, visit farmlands small villages. Then ride to Cat Tien Archaeological Site for an opportunity learns more and visit it museum. After lunch, relax on support vehicle transfers to Dalat.

Dalat was developed as a resort by the French in the early 1900s, the first wooden hotel built in 1907, and many reminders of its colonial heritage remain. Da Lat is a famous tourist destination and one of Vietnam central highland's agricultural growths. Every local in Vietnam markets filled with local specialties such as strawberries, cauliflowers, and artichokes. The fruits and other farm products are sold in cafes, at street food markets and in specialty shops in town that are easy to see at many shops more than anywhere else in Vietnam.

Spend a full day city bu van, visit the palace of the last Nguyen Dynasty Emperor –called the Summer King Palace of Bao Dai – where you can enjoy the airy space and view the panorama beauty of the city. Then to Crazy House, the building's overall design resembles a giant tree, incorporating sculptured design elements representing natural forms such as animals, mushrooms, spider webs and caves. Following are the “Valley of Love”, XQ Headquarters - Dalat Historical Village, and Visit XQ Hand Embroidery workshop.

After lunch, we will take the old train trip through farmland, greenhouse to Trai Mat village in the afternoon. Experience the local lives and visit the beautiful Linh Phuoc pagoda. Finally, we return to the hotel, explore Dalat city on foot in the evening.

After a leisurely breakfast, we start with a transfer to a rural village for an amazing ride.The hilly landscape offers incredible views, and the weather is lovely to inspire you to get more dirt. With many hand-picked routes, you can enjoy different levels from easy, moderate, and hard OR either selects smooth back roads: past greenhouse, farmlands of flowers, coffee, pine forest, and vegetation villages along the back roads. Then we start to ride downhill on the asphalt quiet back road to Ta Nung and Nam Ban, riding past the valley, vegetable plantation, and greenhouses on the way. After we ride downhill about 25 km, make a stop at the cricket farms and a family produce weasel coffee before we ride up gentle hills to Elephant Waterfall. Then we challenge some small hills, passing greenhouses then through farmlands to Ta Nung village, then to Nam Ban. stopping at cricket farm, and weasel coffee-a home of locals. Afterwards, continue cycling to Linh An pagoda, then following the country back roads, we undulate on the small roads, and travel through some tiny villages, and tranquil vegetable farmlands. It's lovely to observe these beautiful rural villages on the way to Lam Ha where we break for lunch.

In the afternoon, we continue biking on trails, down to the Pongour Water Falls. It is a wild and spectacular landscape known as "The greatest waterfall of the South." Spend time enjoying scenery rounds, swimming, listening to birds singing and admiring the most beautiful scenery around water falls. Then have a transfer to Di Linh, and check in at the Ivory Falls Villa

Mui Ne is home to hidden emerald, blue sandy beaches lined with curve coats. Here you can find excellent dining, a wide variety of places to stay along it's coats, lots of fun water activities, and entertainment for tourists. Mui Ne beach has long been considered the "Hawaii" of Vietnam. The beach is shallow and sloped, the water is clean and blue, and the sun is always shining. Sand Hills are red, yellow, and white, which have long been a creative subject of artistic photographs and paintings. Besides beaches and dunes, beautiful landscapes such as Fairy Spring and the Poshanu Cham Tower. It’s also the home to hidden emerald, blue sandy beaches.

After breakfast, we have fresh Vietnamese coffee and enjoy the scenery of the lake, then check out. The second-day ride leads us through coffee plantations with gentle hills to warm our bodies to the peak. Enjoy stunning mountainous landscapes and peaceful valleys. We continue the day cycling through forested jungle valleys, little ethnic villages, and sleepy hillsides. Then we speed up Gia Bac Pass on winding roads through the jungles, offering breathtaking views and a little village scenery setting. The last section is rolling hills down as descendingly the lush farms, sometimes along calm rivers.

In the afternoon, continue biking on opened air back roads and cycle past cashew plantation, lotus lakes, and challenge some gentle hills to White Sand dunes. Break for coffee and spend more time at White Sand dunes before we continue cycling down to coastal roads, keep pedaling to the Red Sand dunes in Mui Ne. This is great chance for you to enjoy sunset and endless photo opportunity. Have a transfer to hotel.

An early breakfast then check out, have a-30 minute transfer through Phan Thiet City, unload the bikes, follow small country road though outskirt of the town. We undulate through villages; stop at the old military airport of South Vietnam army before 1975. Continue to explore the homelands of dragon fruits. Travel through the fields where local’s farm dragon fruits, and rice’s. Continue riding through small hamlets to the coast, then to La Gi. After lunch, we hop on the support vehicles for a transfer to Vung Tau city, visit the Worldwide Arms Museum in town. Then go to hotel for check in.
 

Can Gio Biosphere Reserve is located in the coastal district southeast of Ho Chi Minh City. The forest is about 75,740 hectares and is occupied by mangrove trees, saltwater, and an extensive river network. The mangrove forests have more than 200 species of fauna and 52 species of flora; monkeys and gibbons, crocodiles, bats, birds, fish and shellfish species etc. The forest hosts the highest diversity of mangrove plant species, mangrove-dwelling invertebrates and mangrove-associated fish and shellfish species in the sub-region and is regarded as the ‘green lungs of the city. Since the mangroves received the tourism development, including the buffer zone of the Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve and infrastructures for the areas, the ecotourism of Vam Sat had become one of the most tourist attractions in Southern Vietnam. It’s an idea to explore the forest, experience local life on waterways, taking sampan through water palms, mangroves on water channels, enjoying a walk through the jungle, and learning more about flora and fauna.

Following breakfast, take a speedy ferry to cross the Gulf of Ganh Rai to Can Tho town. A good time we get Panorama Views, the sunrise, and the ocean landscape. Take a morning ride Monkey Island, walk through the park, imagine ourselves in nature with monkeys around us, and visit Rung Sat Musuem before we continue biking Dan xay Bridge. Have a private canoe trip, admire the river scenery, deeply into the mangrove forest- the lung of Ho Chi Minh City. An opportunity for us to see the surrounding landscape from lush riverside water palms to dusky mangrove swamps along river banks. Have a tasty lunch as you arrive at the head quarter of Vam Sat Ecotourism forest. After lunch, we explore the jungle, see thousands of bats hanging themselves on trees, see monkeys in their natural habitat and enjoy crab fishing and bird-watching for exotic local and migratory species. Afterwards, we return by boat and hop on the support vehicle for a transfer to Ho Chi Minh.