Highlights of Vietnam - 16 Days Cycling Phong Nha to Ho Chi Minh

Depart from Ha Noi at 7:30 am, early morning, and travel by private vehicle to the spectacular World Heritage site of Ha Long in the Gulf of Tonkin. It takes about three hours and a half. Thousands of islands have many famous caves, caverns, and sandy coves. Board a boat, cruise the bay, exploring island caves, and enjoy swimming. Dinner on board, enjoy live music at the dancing bar, and spend a peaceful night on the cruise.

Enjoy sunrise with tea and coffee before a breakfast serving. Visit floating villages by bamboo boat, and stop at some Pearl Farms before returning to the cruise. Your lunch is on board while the cruise slowly returns to Hon Gai dock. The cruise trip will finish it journey 11:45 am. You will relax on a vehicle driving back to Hanoi city around 4:30 pm—Check-in hotel. See Water Puppet Show in the evening and have dinner.

Breakfast is taken away for an early flight to Dong Hoi today. You will be picked up and taken to Noi Bai airport. After you are met at Dong Hoi airport, we will drive on a private vehicle to Phong Nha for an hour. Check-in the Hotel and enjoy lunch before we explore Paradise Cave; enjoy mud bathing at Dark Cave. It is hot springs inside Dark Caves. Then we will come back Hotel in the late afternoon.

After breakfast at the Hotel, check out, and your cycle starts from the Hotel. Your ride on a country back road through tiny villages and local markets before you head on a single track to the riverside, your bike guide will lead you cycling on a single way by the river, passing Ethnic villages and countryside rice paddies, and you can see buffaloes, cows on farmland. Ride across the west Truong Son highway (former HCM trails) and cycle through rubber plantations into many small villages and countryside mountain rice fields. Explore local villages and mountain landscapes for an incredible ride in this beautiful tropical country. Then we head to a small town by small fishing villages to bike along the dirt roads enjoying stunning countryside views. After lunch, transfer to Dong Ha.

We start our adventure day early at 8:00 am. From a small road outside the town, we explore rivers and their branches through the rice paddies and idyllic villages, passing lush agriculture and pagodas on fabulous routes. Your guide will cut off some to see the best of stunning coastal back roads and beaches. Quang Tri' seaside countryside is still untouched for cyclists/travelers. As you cycle on the coast through the fishing villages, you'll get a glimpse of daily village life, seeing villagers go about their daily activities. Your lunch is well-prepared at a local seafood restaurant by the beach. We carry on our adventure cycling through Lagoon, biking deeply to ancient colorful pagodas, and continue rocking and rolling on single track into the green vegetable plantation, peaceful, undiscovered rural villages with panoramic views to Hue city

The former capital of Vietnam is Hue today. It holds the treasures of Vietnam's royal past, including; tombs, pagodas, a typical blend of French and Vietnam's architectures and historical relics. You will visit the Imperial Citadel, including the Forbidden Purple City, which was almost nearly destroyed in Vietnam War during the Tet Offensive. We will have a leisurely bicycle ride along picturesque country roads in the morning. Cycle through peaceful and fantastic scenery; witness the Vietnamese rural life, offering endless photo opportunities. Then a short transfer takes you to the fishing village to bike. The ride of today is divided into two different levels. After lunch, we continue to ride up to Hai Van Pass. Ensure you can capture plenty of pictures from the peak of Ha Van Pass.

A free day in Hoi An.

Discover the delightful back roads of Hoi An, Tam Ky, and Quang Ngai and their surroundings by bicycle. You'll escape the tourist trail as you experience the contrast between bustling city life and the elegant charm of rural Vietnam. Meet and chat with the friendly and welcoming locals on country back roads, and they are happy to show you their beautiful homeland. We will cycle along rice paddies, picturesque landscapes, fishing villages, and traditional hamlets. You'll discover how and why farmers still use buffalos and cows to help them on farmlands. There will be many stops at historical sites and colorful pagodas. On your cycling adventures is such a beautiful day. The ride is divided into two sections. In the morning, you will enjoy biking on countryside back roads, through agriculture, seeing working buffaloes and cows on rice paddies, riding over small wood bridges, and seeing thatch houses along rivers. Your lunch is in the town of Tam Ky. In the afternoon, the ride will continue from Chau O; we follow hilly back roads through the jungle and villages to Son My memorial.

We commence today's ride with a short transfer to rural villages and visit some highlights, My Lai villages, before we pick up the bike from Co Luy bridge, close to sea month. We explore backwaters, and 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 across the lovely countryside, experience the culture, see the farmers harvesting rice crops, and see tranquil towns. Visit a traditional pagoda, and pass by salt fields. There are many non-tourist areas and natural countryside to explore, past many small local markets, little towns, and lush farmlands. Lunch en route, and we continue the lovey ride toward Sa Huynh.

There is another fantastic day! As the wind is pushing you today! Enjoy lovely quiet coastal back roads and breathtaking views of mountains along the way. Tam Quang is a small town, and it takes about an hour to drive from Quang Ngai city, where you stayed last night. We depart at 7:00 am from the Hotel. There are some gentle hills to challenge, back roads and mixed dirt tracks through fishing villages, mountainous countryside rice paddy fields, salt fields, and many sandy local beaches along the way. You could stop at any beach to enjoy swimming. Seafood lunch is well-prepared at fishing villages. In the afternoon, your ride will continue onward to the Lagoon of Thi Nai before a short transfer takes you to the city center.

Quy Nhon is a small city in the Central Coast of Vietnam. It belongs to Binh Dinh province, known as Vietnam's martial arts land. Its varied topography is highly diversified, with mountains and forests, hills, fields, salt marshes, plains, lagoons, lakes, rivers, shorelines, peninsulas, and islands. Its coastline is 42 km long with sandy beaches, abundant seafood resources, and other natural products of economic value. Check out the Hotel at 7:00 am and enjoy the scenery on vehicles for an hour to Ganh Do, Ganh Hao, where the ride begins. Ride on a long wooden bridge to cross Lagoon, we ride on trails along a massive lake through fishing villages, pass sweet potato fields, tapioca fields, rice paddy and fishing villages to Tuy Hoa city. After lunch in the town of Tuy Hoa, You will also be challenged by biking over some hills - the stunning views of the surrounding mountains and beautiful countryside from Tuy Hoa to Vung Ro. Depending on your cycling ability and time, our guide could figure out and tailor a short or long route to be at the Hotel before dark.

The French endowed the city with villas and boulevards, and its Swiss charms remain today. Hébrard included the requisite health complex, golf course, parks, schools, and homes but no industry. The legacy of boarding schools where children from Indochina were taught by French priests, nuns, and expatriates still existed as late as 1969. In 1929, the Christian and Missionary Alliance established a school that later relocated to Bangkok, Thailand, due to the Vietnam War and has been located in Penang, Malaysia, since the 1970s. There were seminaries of Jesuits (such as Pius X Pontifical College) and other orders. The elite Vietnamese National Military Academy graduated its first class of future leaders in 1950. There was an aviation school at Cam Ly Airport. After breakfast, a transfer by vehicle takes you to the countryside of Dien Khanh. We take a leisurely bike ride to explore villages by the river and ride past sugar cane farms and rice paddy fields on paths through beautiful countryside along the mountain to Khanh Vinh. After lunch, we ride 30 km on A/C van uphill to the peak of Hon Giao. Then we cycle back roads through the valley, pine forests, and breathtaking mountain views, about 1500m above sea level, allowing you to conquer many hills.

Dalat is called the "City of Eternal Spring" for its distinctive temperate climate. The other name called by locals is "Honeymoon City". It 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's central highland's agricultural growth. Every local in Vietnam markets filled with local specialties such as strawberries, cauliflowers, and artichokes. Today we will explore Dalat City by bus. Visit Crazy House, Bao Dai Summer Palace, then the Valley of Love before we make a stop at XQ Headquarters- Dalat Historical Village. Visit XQ Hand Embroidery workshop. Next, enjoy lunch at a famous restaurant. We will take the old train trip through farmland, greenhouse to Trai Mat village in the afternoon. Experience the local lives in the surrounding area, and visit the beautiful Linh Phuoc pagoda. Finally, we return to the hotel, explore Dalat city on foot in the evening, enjoy Vietnamese coffee and tea at the lovely shop by Xuan Huong Lake.

The highlight of morning biking is ride down hill on 20 km from Suoi Vang to Lam Ha via Ta Nung. Stop for coffee break after we ride downhill. Then we turn right cycling on gentle hilly back roads pass coffee plantation before we ride down another hill for lunch. After lunch, we go Nam Cat Tien by vehicles. If time permitts, we ride in the afternoon, ride cross vegetable, cashew fields then cross Dong Nai River on suspension bridge to the park.

Cat Tien National Park is a treasure trove of biodiversity and tropical forests of southern Vietnam. Its a peaceful place and also a home of thousands of birds and many exotic species of plants and animals. Wake up early, walk along river, enjoy the sunrise, is a beautiful time and listen to birds singing. After your breakfast at Hotel, we will enjoy a boat ride to Monkey Island. Here you can see golden-cheeked gibbons and learn all about the incredible work being undertaken to rescue, rehabilitate and release these beautiful animals. Then we will return to Hotel for check-in and continue our cycling adventures. We start our last cycling day from the park; we ride on a back road along Dong Nai River to Ta Lai village, then we turn onto a small dirt track through rice paddy fields, cashew plantations, and farmlands of on undulating country roads to high street where we end up for a transfer to Saigon by our private vehicle

Enjoy breakfast, Vietnamese coffee- Cafe Sua Da, spend time shopping until the airport transfer is picked up for the international flight to depart. Tour End! Biking Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh