Cycling Saigon to Hoi An 8D/7N

You will be picked up and taken to Tan Son Nhat Airport to catch a domestic flight to Dalat. On arrival, be met by the team for a 30-minute transfer to Dalat. Check-in, the hotel, have a rest until lunch in the town.

Then pick up the bike, make saddle adjustments, handlebar etc. Enjoy a half-day bike ride in the countryside of Dalat. The ride allows you to double-check your bikes for the following days. Finally, we return to the hotel, explore Dalat city on foot in the evening, and be prepared for the next amazing days.

Commence with an hour vehicle transfer to Bidoup National Park, northeast of Dalat, for a whole day of cycling adventure. You cycle on a new road, rolling hills, pine forest, green farmlands, on the winding road through the tropical rainforest. The ride allows you to undulate through lush farmlands, admire the romantic landscape and comfortable climate.  Some hills are real challenges for you with beautiful valleys surround and numerous tropical forests. One of the most interesting for mountain challenge lovers is the last hills to the top as you conquer the mountain top of Khanh Le (called Hon Giao) os not the long way. It's just a couple of km, as it short distance but a little bit vertical. No worry at all because the support vehicles are always on standby and near you.

Khanh Le mountain top is about 1500m above sea level, where you enjoy the most spectacular mountain scenery in central Vietnam. This is your limitless opportunity for stoppings along, to admire valleys, waterfalls with lush rainforest. Enjoy more snacks, cold drinks, and fresh fruits before riding downhill for 29 km. It's a fabulous ride of the day, and you have a delicious lunch at the local restaurant by the River, right at the foot of the pass.

The ride in the afternoon is entirely different from the morning's adventures. We take an easy ride to explore hamlets, meet locals in farmlands of sugar cane, rice paddy, enjoy the beautiful countryside of Khanh Vinh, stop at the local market for coffee, snack, fresh fruits. Then we continue biking onwards onward to the ancient Dien Khanh citadel before you have a short transfer to the city of Nha Trang in the late afternoon.

Leave Nha Trang at 7:30 am, enjoy an hour of vehicle drives to Van Ninh township- a small fishing port. The ride will start at Van Gia township, follow the cost route through the quiet little town, enjoy ocean freeze and look over many small colour fishing boats alongside. Ride past the tiny fishing port with a small bridge where local fishing boats, tourist boats come back from the sea, and fishing islands. Then escape the small town and ride into rural villages, past small markets along the pathways, rice fields stretching to mountain's foot, waving kids when cycling past primary schools. Stop to visit a vibrant market so that you could experience the life of locals. It's a small market with little lined-shop holders sell fresh fish, fruits and varied commodities. Here is the way you taste and smell the real life of locals.

Afterwards, the ride takes you more deeply into the rural area, through fish farms, fruit orchards, on dirt tracks to Co Ma Mountain. It's an excellent way to challenge your body, mind, and physical strength after the morning on flat routes. Co Ma Mountain is small, a couple of km to the top, and it is an excellent place to view Dai Lanh Beach and Vung Ro Bay. The vehicle tunnels emptied the Co Ma Pass. Enjoy a seafood lunch at Dai Lanh, followed by a 15-minute transfer to Vung Ro Bay to explore the stunning coast and rustic countryside the rest of the day.

Continue undulating on the coast route of Tuy Hoa's most accessible and spectacular coastal scenery. After more than 10 km on the coast, turn left and rolling into the beautiful countryside, experience local culture, pass by schools, tiny markets, cross the railways and stay on quiet country lanes to the outskirts of Tuy Hoa's Airport. Take a rest on vehicle transfer 2.5 hours to Quy Nhon in the late afternoon.

We start the day ride with a vehicle transfer out of the city. Just a 20-minute drive over Thi Ngai, the longest sea bridge to in Vietnam. Pick up the bike and be ready for a long day to explore beautiful lagoons and sand dune along the peninsula. The scenery along the routes is so beautiful, with tiny villages in the lowland as you gaze down from the ways and colourful temples and pagodas. Then, ride past sand dunes, undulating concrete roads, most on narrow pathways through agricultural lands running alongside the river to Cat Tien. Take the right turn on the coast, where you can see the giant Buddha statue on the mountain, next to Viet Cong cemetery. It's a nice place to have a water stop with plenty of photos.

Continue your adventurous ride on the coast, climb up some minor hills, enjoy mountainous scenery, and ride down to lush farmlands. Keep cycling past many fishing villages and sandy beaches, stop at the village for a coffee break, have fruits, snacks, and get more water for the next stop. Follow a small concrete road, ride through many rustic villages and farms where you stop off some, learn more about rural life, and experience fish farming. Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant at the small fishing village.

Afterwards, you continue the authentic way on the coastal route, cross through salt fields and crouching markets that sell fresh fish directly from the sea. Carry on the ride to another colourful fishing village with hundreds of fishing sampans and circular boats around. It is perfect for walking around for photos taken and meet villagers. Then continue cycling biking on the coast route, pass many farms of shrimp, fish before following the small concrete paths that lead you to a beautiful lagoon. Enjoy cycling on the lakeside, views the peaceful landscape, with mountains around. Leave the lagoon behind and continue onwards to Tam Quan. Ride through the countryside and magnificent mountain views, climb up a small hills before exploring the homeland of coconut plantations. The last part allows you to get more pictures, meet friendly locals, and cross through rustic villages on the way to Tam Quan.

Finally, take a rest on vehicle transfer 20 minutes to Sa Huynh beach resort.

Sa Huynh is a small village with a long sandy beach and large salt field in its surroundings, and the gorgeous lagoons open to the sea. It's an ideal location to relax for a couple of days. Get up early, take a walk to the beach, enjoy the most peaceful time of the day. Back to the hotel for breakfast and prepare for today's adventurous ride.

There is a short transfer from the hotel, and take a quick stop at the salt fields for the photo taken before the ride. You follow the small concrete road, ride into the picturesque rural village of Pho Khanh. The seaside countryside is quiet with some smaller towns, and lush farms have stunning scenery. Take a nice stop at the beautiful shallow lake that is the home to fresh fish. The villagers do a lot of fishing on this lake by fish strap and net in the rainy season but more crops of rice, vegetable in the dry season. Continue crossing the rivers to coastal villages that offer an incredible diversity of farmlands, stunning scenery along the villages. We continue the pleasure ride toward Quang Ngai, explore the backwaters that make your adventures striking and more enjoyable. The area offers incredible views through the river network and stunning scenery along old villages with lined bamboo trees. The varied bike routes also take you through nostalgic villages, ancient temples, and pagodas. We ride on the suspension bridge, cross the Tra Khuc River and cycle to My Son Memorial- My Lai Massacre in 1968.

After the visit, we have lunch in a small town. Then, we continue to experience fishing villagers' life along the ocean and river paths to Sa Ky fishing post for the endless photo opportunity. Drop your bike at a coffee shop, and take your camera with you for a walk to see the daily life of fishing villagers. Then, we have a local ferry crossing and bike on rural paths through charming villages to Binh Son township.

The next destination is an ancient town- Hoi An, the first central Southeast Asian trading post in the 16th and 17th centuries, where many Chinese and Japanese immigrants settled. Hoi An is one of the fantastic places to stay and learn Vietnamese, Chinese, and Cham's old-age culture and spend your own as a pleasure time. The town where your trip will end up, and you can keep staying there a couple of days before your travel schedule continues onwards.

Enjoy breakfast, and you commence your last day cycling adventure from the hotel. We follow the narrow street running along the River to the sea, cross the River on Tra Bong bridge, take a left-right turn on a short route to the coast of Dung Quat, and continue riding on a 9 km stunning ocean road before we off the main road. Then you undulate on the narrow road, past lush agricultural lands to a small town by the sea. Enjoy two ferry boats cross the river mounts with short cycling through the Tam Hai tiny island. See numerous colourful fishing boats when you are on a ferry crossing river. Most locals here live mainly on fishing and seafood farmings.

Then you continue the ride, enjoy the dirt road biking along the Truong Giang 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 coming back. Fishermen's wives help them hang the fish to dry some, mostly fresh are for sales. We have lunch in Tam Thanh- a local beach. We spend more time exploring the lush farmland, rice paddies and less time on coastal fishing routes, spend more time enjoy the idyllic scenery of rustic villages along the Truong Giang River. In the late afternoon, you explore the backwaters of Thu Bon River, particular the Cam Kim island that the iconic carpentry and traditional woodcarving. The island is famous for old villages, old-fashioned agricultural irrigation canals, and small fishing villages with colourful fishing sampans amongst water palms. It's a terrific chance for you to explore the hidden charm villages, thatch houses, buffaloes on rice fields, bamboo bridges and removed villages. Finally, we cross Thu Bon River on Cam Kim Bridge to Hoi An. Your hotel is Ann Retreat Resort & Spa, and just about 250m from the bridge.

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