Biking HCM to HOI AN 5 days/ 4 nights
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Tour code
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VBT: VCT5A - SGN - HA
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Duration
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5 days/ 4 nights
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No. of cycling days
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4 full days + half
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Distance
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310 - 370 km
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Minimum ages to ride
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18
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Group size
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Mi: 02 - Max: 12
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Tour meets
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in HCM
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Tour ends
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in Hoi An
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Road surface
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Mixed dirty track, concrete path and hilly country back roads
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What's included
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What's not included
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- Private A/C vehicle takes up all cyclists and luggage
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- Personal travel insurance
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- Truck to carry all bikes and spare bikes, tool kits
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- Single accommodation
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- New Giant MTB, wheel size: 27.5" hydraulic brakes
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- Other personal expenses
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- Helmets, new bottles of water
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- Drinks are not included with any meal
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- All entrance fees and boat rides
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- Domestic flight from HCM to Dalat
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- B = 4 Breakfasts, L = 5 Lunches, D = 3 Dinners
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- Daily cold water, snack, fresh fruits and facial tissues
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- 4 nights: double room and twin share
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- Experienced English speaking bike guides
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- Pick up & drop off at hotels
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Dates
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Destinations
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Activities
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Distance
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Meals
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Day 01
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HCM - Dalat
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Flight + cycling
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20 - 45 km
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L/D
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Day 02
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Dalat - Nha Trang
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Cycling + transfer
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30 - 80 km
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B/L
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Day 03
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Nha Trang - Quy Nhon
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Cycling + tranfser
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30 - 70 km
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B/L/D
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Day 04
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Quy Nhon - Quang Ngai
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Cycling + transfer
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30 - 80 km
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B/L/D
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Day 05
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Quang Ngai - Hoi An
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Cycling + transfer
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30 - 80 km
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B/L
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Day 01: Saigon - Dalat
Today you will have an early morning flight from HCM to Lien Khuong airport. By arriving at Lien Khuong airport, your guide is already there and waiting to meet you there. We stop at local restaurant for breakfast before the ride starts. We will reach to peak by van/bus then we ride down to Nam Bang before we continue cycling on gentle hilly back road to Ta Nung and Camly waterfalls.
- An early flight to Dalat
- 25 – 45km, easy/moderate/hard
- Lunch/ Dinner
Day 02: Dalat - Nha Trang
The second day' ride is divided into different levels. The morning is a real challenge ride rolling hills but easy bicycling on flat land in the afternoon. After your breakfast at hotel, we check out for an hour driving by van/bus to rural pine forest, the particular mountain scenery with nice temperature could be a mental stimulation to help you to challenge your cycling skill. After a coffee break and photo taken at Hon Giao’s peak, you will have a wonderful riding downhill on 30 km to Suoi Loi. In the afternoon, we bike into countryside past sugar cane fields, rice-paddy, thatch houses, local markets to Dien Khanh. We get on van/bus right here for a transfer to Nha Trang city.
- 30 – 80 km, easy/moderate/hard
- Breakfast/ Lunch
Day 03: Nha Trang – Qui Nhon
Today we start the ride earlier because from Nha Trang to Quy Nhon is a very long way. Biking paths are flat and beautiful, going through countryside mountain rice fields, fishing village, and salt farms. We'll enjoy a delicious meal at seafood restaurants by Dai Lanh beach. In the afternoon, beautiful rural country back road with some hilly paths across sweet potato plantations, fishing villages and many huge lakes connected to ocean giving you a really nice ride. The rest of the today is a single track by the ocean. Our guides will lead you cycling into tiny fishing villages, riding over small wood bridges, cycling past shelter building with simple materials by salt fields. We'll get on van/bus for Quy Nhon city in late afternoon.
- 30 – 70 km, easy/moderate
- Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
Day 04: Quy Nhon – Quang Ngai
The coastal country back roads from quy Nhon to Tam Quang are beautiful. It is such a wonderful and great mixed road; dirty track, smooth concrete paths and country asphalt roads through lovely countryside and mountain areas. After a short transfer you out of busy town. We begin in rural village. We start a morning ride by the lake of Thi Nai and riding on smooth hilly coastal road, passing white sand dunes, tiny fishing villages, and some little seaside towns. Stop for lunch at seafood restaurant at small town on the way. In the sunny afternoon, peaceful country roads through the countryside and magnificent mountain views, we’ll pass shrimp farms and local farms. Then we ride across coconut plantation amongst villages in Tam Quang Dist before we get on A/C van/bus for an hour driving you to Quang Ngai in late afternoon.
- 30 – 80 km, easy/moderate
- Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
Day 05: Quang Ngai – Hoi An
Quang Ngai is known to foreign tourists because of My Lai Massacre which was in Vietnam War. But it’s a wonderful province for us to do bike ride. After our visiting this memorial then we start our bike riding. A morning ride is 35 km but it allows us to explore some hamlets of Son My, Son Tinh and Sa Ky fishing port. We’ll continue cycling, we bicycling through cassava root farms, corn farms on hily single tracks. Our lunch today is at famous chicken rice restaurant in Quang Ngai city. It’s a local specialty chicken rice is well-knows in central provinces. After lunch, an easy bike riding on unique country rural back roads, across ride fields, agricultural villages give you so much time to see buffaloes on rice paddies, bamboo bridges across rivers and they are shortcuts connecting both sides of the river, small lakes. In the late afternoon, we ride past Monkey Bridge, old temples and pagodas and small local markets before heading to Hoi An. Tour End!
- 30 – 80 km, easy/moderate
- Breakfast/Lunch
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