Cycling to Central highlands- Ho Chi Minh Trails- Hoi An

We’ll start today’s ride a bit later, allowing more time to soak in the beauty of Lake Lak and experience the daily life of local ethnic fishing communities. Enjoy a leisurely breakfast and coffee before setting off.

Cycle through Jun and Lieng villages, then take a ferry across to scenic farmland where the ethnic M’Nong people cultivate crops and raise cattle. The ride is easy and mostly flat, with gentle undulations along countryside roads. Along the way, you’ll pass lakes, small hamlets, and lush green pepper plantations as you approach the outskirts of Ban Me Thuot.

From there, we’ll transfer by vehicle into the city center. Check in at your hotel and enjoy dinner in town.

Enjoy a leisurely breakfast and be ready to explore the highland villagers' life and spectacular scenery on winding roads up and down the vast coffee, tea, and green chili pepper plantations, along with Ethnic villages. There will be two sections for us to venture into the hamlets. 

Begin today's adventure with a vehicle transfer to Buon Ho's countryside, and we will get more dirt, as many routes lead you along paths and trails to remote villages of Cu Pon and  Ea H’Leo. It's about 40km in the morning, with serious hills. Do not worry! The support vehicles will go on and support us on bike routes. The afternoon gives you 25 km of riding on the gentle and undulating track, through rubber plantations, passing small local markets, and red soil farmland where avocados and bananas are well grown. Enjoy views of beautiful rural villages and immerse yourself in the culture of highland villagers.

From Pleiku to Ngoc Hoi is about 120km, and the ride is divided into two sections. In the morning, we visit the sea lake, and people live around. In the afternoon, ride to Kon K'tu village, a scenic suspension bridge, and a traditional wooden church. The rest of the day is spend in Ngoc Hoi town.

After breakfast, we check out of the hotel and transfer to a rural village, where we ride 20 km to explore the sea lake and enjoy the scenery of the lake and lush hill farms, including fruit orchards, rice paddies, and tea plantations. We then take a 1-hour transfer to Kon Tum. We stop at Rong Kon Ro Wang House and visit it before biking across the suspension bridge to Ba Na community in Kon Ko Tu village, Barna, and Jarai Ethics. It is a great way to see local life, passing friendly villagers and farmland and riding along Dak Bia River to Kon Ko Tu's oldest villages. We will stop at Rong House, a Kon Klor communal house built with local materials: timber, bamboo, and thatch. We continue cycling, cross another bridge to the city, and visit the massive traditional wooden church in central highland Vietnam. Break for lunch in town and prepare for the fantastic ride in the afternoon.

Following lunch, we'll transfer along the quiet road DT675, through small ethnic villages, past amazing landscapes, and into peaceful mountains. For the last parts of the day, we stay on smooth tracks that undulate through verdant vegetation, coffee plantations, rolling hills, and little villages, cross the river on a narrow suspension bridge, and end up the afternoon's ride at old Phuong Hoang Airport (Phoenix airport). Have a short transfer to Hoc Hoi township

Today we ride almost on the road of Ho Chi Minh- the former Ho Chi Minh trails. The quiet Po Ko River road offers scenic views, lush green forest jungles, and little hamlets. We race on hilly roads, not flat all but gentle, passing many small towns, rolling little hills, and rustic rice paddies to Dak Giel. It's 40km in the morning.

Dak Giel was known as the Prison during the Indochina War, and many Viet Minh were kept for many years. We break for lunch in town and hop on a support vehicle driving to the peak of Lo xo -Springs Pass. Avoid speeding up the serious hills and save time for the fabulous downhill ride to Phuoc Son in the afternoon. We ride down the Lo Xo Pass, enjoying breathtaking scenery and mountainous landscapes along the quiet road. We continue biking to Phuoc Son on a road with more down than up.

We’ll take one of the most scenic routes to Hoi An today, with stunning landscapes along the way. After a leisurely breakfast, we check out and depart at 8:00 am.

Cycling through town, we turn right and continue riding across a peaceful river before joining Road 14E toward the seaside ancient town of Hoi An. The journey unfolds through beautiful lakeside stretches, lush farmlands, quiet villages, and dense jungle scenery. Along the way, the road winds past rivers, dams, and hydropower stations, with occasional waterfalls adding to the charm.

We conclude the ride in Hiep Duc, where we enjoy a slightly late lunch in town. Afterward, we transfer by support vehicle to Hoi An, arriving in the late afternoon.