Introduction

Vietnam Backroads designed this unique cycling tour with a combined all-terrain of roads and different types and levels of cyclists. The first day is to tour the capital city Ha Noi, and the second day is to explore Phong Nha Paradise Cave - the most beautiful and long cave in Asia. Following, we cycle through DMZ and the 17th parallel divided line Vietnam from 1954 to 19975. Then cross spectacular Truong Song mountain range on Ho Chi Minh trails, stay a night Khe Sanh- the serious battlefield during Vietnam War before cycling along the Laos border to Al Luoi. Stop at Hamburger Hill, then ride down to Hue,  Hoi An- World Heritage Sites then spends plenty of time exploring the beautiful central coast to Nha Trang. Stay a night in Dalat City and finally, fly to Ho Chi Minh for the International flight home.

Destination
Duration
Tour code
VCT: 14D - HANOI - HCM
Travel style
Tour meets
Tour ends
Accommodation
3 - 4 star hotels
Single supplement
525.00$
Number Of cycling days
9 days
Ages to ride
18 years old
Average distance per day
40Km
MTB Bike hire
US$90
Total cycling distance
565 km
E-Bike hire
$315.00
Small group
02
Large Group
14
Price in US$
USD $3175.00 3175.00
Price in VND
What's included
Private A/C vehicle takes up all cyclists, luggage
Truck to carry all bikes and spare bikes, tool kits, helmets
All entrance fees, ferry tickets in countryside
Night train Ha Noi to Dong Hoi
Domestic flight Nha Trang to Ho Chi Minh
12 nights, double & twin share
B= Daily breakfasts, L= 11 Lunches, D= 7 Dinners
Daily cold water, snack, fresh fruits, facial tissues
All airport in/out
Pick up/ drop off at hotels
English speaking guide throughout the tour
What's not included
Personal travel insurance
Other personal expenses
Visa to Vietnam
International Flight
Drinks are not included with any meal

We'll meet you at your hotel in Hanoi and take you to Duong Lam hamlet. We'll roll onto Duong Lam, an ancient and charming agricultural village in the northern Red River Delta.


Our exploration by bike on hidden alleys, visit Mong Phu temple, learn more about the rich history as well as the beautiful scenery of this pretty ancient Village where you will meet local people and see the ancient, over 500 years old. Along the way, we'll converse with villagers and learn more about the rich history of many generations, ancient for over 500 years.


We'll break for lunch at a local home and resume cycling, passing rice paddies, visiting the temples of Ngo Quyen and Phu Hung, and spending more time at Mia Pagoda—one of the oldest pagodas in Vietnam. We'll return to Ha Noi in the afternoon. We'll take a shower and have dinner before we board a night flight to Dong Hoi.
 

Lunch/ Dinner
20km
Reunification Train
Support vehicles
Cold water, snacks, fruits

The train arrives at Dong Hoi Station at 7:00 am, be met by the Vietnam Backroads Team, and stops in town for breakfast, coffee, and tea before a transfer to Paradise Cave. The journey by bus takes about an hour and a half to go through the mountain scenery of a sub-national park forest, passing lakes and valleys on winding roads and rolling limestone mountains. Explore Paradise Cave, one of the most beautiful caves globally, for many reasons: for its longest underground River and for its most beautiful underground lake. It's the world's most beautiful cave, with a length of 31.4 km and the longest dry cave in Asia. We'll continue our journey by vehicle through the limestone mountain range to a nice restaurant by the River to enjoy a delicious lunch. Return to Phong Nha to check in the hotel—free time in the afternoon. 

Saigon Phong Nha
Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
Support vehicles

In the morning, we explore Phong Nha's rural villages, surroundings, and calm rivers flowing to the sea. Phong Nha has mainly featured caves, quiet rivers, tiny villages, and its karst mountains. Most villagers live primarily in farming, rice crops, and fruit orchards but only a little fishing. 


After lunch in Dong Hoi, we'll rest on the transfer for 1 hour to Vinh Linh Dist, then continue to explore the scenic countryside to Vinh Moc tunnels. The seaside areas offer idyllic countryside of blooming trees and vast fields, providing beautiful backdrops and fish farming when we ride down the coast. Visit Vinh Moc Tunnels, stay on coastal back roads, pass locals' sandy beaches, and take plenty of photos along small fishing villages to Hien Luong Bridge. The last visit of today is to the famous Museum of Hien Luong Bridge that knows the 17 parallel divided Vietnam in 1954 until the war ended in 1975. We'll transfer to Dong Ha in the late afternoon

Saigon Dong Ha ****
Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
25 - 65 km
Easy/ moderate
Support vehicles
Cold water, snacks, fruits

Quang Tri was Vietnam's most heavily bombed province during Vietnam War. Mine Action Visitor Center is a museum that provides an excellent historical overview – in English and Vietnamese – with plenty of photographs taken during the war. Around 15 million tons of U.S. munition were dropped over Vietnam between 1965 and 1975, and at least 10% of those failed to detonate. It cannot be missed before we ride to Khe Sanh.


Our selected routes will lead you to unspoiled areas. We ride through the untouched jungle offering spectacular landscapes and green farmlands. Afterward, we undulate along the villages, and sometimes rivers will see more rice fields and fruit orchards. Visit some old military bases of the Nguyen Dynasty. Break for lunch in a small town, and continue biking through local farms and some little villages, enjoying lush farmlands un we reach high roads where we have a transfer to Ta Con Airport. It is now the Ta Con Airport Relic Museum in Khe Sanh. After the visit, we'll transfer to Khe Sanh, and check in the hotel. 

New Khanh Phuong ***
Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
25 - 55 km
Easy/ moderate
Support vehicles
Cold water, snacks, fruits

After breakfast, we check out and travel by bus to Historic Ta Con Airport. The one is many things related to Vietnam War; the airstrip used to transport troops and supplies, many US tanks, helicopters, weapons are still there. We visit the old Ta Con Airport, the former South Vietnam Army before 1975- Knows as the Khe Sanh combat base where relics of the war are exhibited and opens for tourists. After the visit, the bus ride continues to the south of the town to Dak Rong Bridge, about 4 km north of Khe Sanh. Dak Rong is the friendship bridge built by Cuban engineers. Then we start to rock and roll the trails of Ho Chi Minh (asphalt road today) The scenic ride is through spectacular scenery, mountain and jungle up and down the quiet roads along the river. We will pass many tribe villages, small towns—lunch en route before we challenge Pe Ke Pass. Then we enjoy downhill ride to A Lin then A Luoi.

Hue Crown A Luoi Retreat
Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
30 - 85 km
Support vehicles
Cold water, snacks, fruits

A Luoi is a small town close to the Laos border. It was a small village controlled by the former French colonial capital and Hue coastal city. We have breakfast, pick up the bikes from the hotel, and ride down hills a few km of an amazingly green mountain range, then we speed up a hills with spectacular scenery setting. Break for water, fruits and be ready for  off-the-beaten-track biking. The routes are mixed with concrete paths, dirt tracks through the jungle, and farmlands, and some parts along the sleepy river to Minh Mang tomb. After we visit and learn the history of the Nguyen Dynasty, we carry on our bicycle ride to explore the charming countryside of Hue. Past many Mandarin houses, old pagodas on the back road, ride along some parts of the Perfume River to Hue City.

Imperial Hue ****
Breakfast/ Lunch/
25 - 55 km
Easy/ moderate/hard
Support vehicles
Cold water, snacks, fruits

After breakfast, we take a short vehicle transfer out of the bustling traffic city to a peaceful village. Ride on the fantastic route through the scenic countryside lane and enjoy some of the most impressive landscapes. The rural villages are quiet, charming, beautiful lagoons and stunning coast with the mix of dirt tracks, narrow concrete paths and asphalt back roads. Lunch en route before we challenge Hai Van Pass, enjoy the breathtaking views and beautiful Bay of Da Nang. Then we ride downhill to Da Nang, and all get on vehicle transfer to Hoi An.

Palm Garden Resort Hoi An
Breakfast/ Lunch/
25 - 75 km
Easy/ moderate/ hard
Support vehicles
Cold water, snacks, fruits

Stay on beach

Palm Garden Resort Hoi An
Breakfast/

Today begins at the hotel, and we cross a bridge over the Thu Bon River that takes us through quiet villages and then into beautiful farmlands, where we take a break at a fresh local market where the fish come straight from the sea after villagers spend a night there. It gives you more time to see the real daily life of locals living there for generations. The rural areas we bike through have buffalos working on farmlands and monkey bridges over the natural creeks connecting the village to villages.


Break for lunch at Tam Thanh local beach, then follow the well-maintained paths, passing small fishing villages. Stay on small trails along the rivers, see many little fishing boats and bamboo baskets, and cross village channels by local ferry boats of Tam Hai Island. Afterward, we'll hop on the vehicle and transfer to My Lai Massacre Memorial for a visit before a short transfer to CocoLand River Beach Resort & Spa in the late afternoon.

CocoLand River Beach Resort
Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
30 - 70 km
Easy/ Moderate
Support vehicles
Cold water, snacks, fruits

After a leisurely breakfast, we start cycling from the hotel, experiencing charming villages across rice paddies, along rivers, and sometimes agricultural canals and dams. We'll encounter scenic scenery along rivers and verdant farmlands, ancient temples, simple houses built with local materials, old houses, and a ferry crossing with locals.


Afterward, we ride to coastal routes and pass fish farms, beaches, and little fishing villages. We might see a small local where fresh fish comes directly from the ocean. We continue biking to My A fishing port and take a break for lunch in Sa Huynh. As the day draws to a close, we have a seamless transfer to Tam Quan for the afternoon ride on the coastal back road to My An. We then transfer to Quy Nhon in the late afternoon.

Anya Hotel Quy Nhon
Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
30 - 85 km
Easy/ moderate
Support vehicles
Cold water, snacks, fruits

The morning's cycle begins the morning with an hour of vehicle transfer on the coastal road to a small town where we rock small mountains and through the forests. Turn on dirt track, experience local culture and hard life of farmers living in remote hamlets. The ruotes are smooth, undulating and roll small hills, then undulate along the sleepy river to a small town for lunch.


In the afternoon, we follow the country road, through lush farmlands and peaceful rivers. The routes are flat and smooth, through small towns, seafood farms to the coast, pass fishing villages, pedal along the lagoons, experience authentic attractions along the way! A short break at Ganh Da Dia- The Sea Cliff of Stone Plate is a seashore area of uniformly interlocking basalt rock columns located along the coast in An Ninh Dong Commune, Tuy An District, Phu Yen. Then we take a small paths along the sea and will stop at one of the most beautiful pagodas, and ride through the sweet potato, corn and tapioca farmlands, paddy fields, view beautiful countryside to the outskirts of Tuy Hoa city. Have a transfer to Nha Trang in the late afternoom.

Sunrise Nha Trang Beach Hotel & Spa
Breakfast/ Lunch/
30 - 65 km
Easy/ moderate
Support vehicles
Cold water, snacks, fruits

Breakfast at the hotel, explore the central market and highlight town spots until the airport transfers out to catch a flight to Saigon. You are welcomed by Vietnam Cycling Tours' staff at Tan Son Nhat Airport and will be taken to Saigon downtown; check in at the hotel. 

Northern Charm
Breakfast
Airport out/in

The Cu Chi's tunnels are an incredible underground network of 250km that Vietnamese guerilla soldiers dug from 1948 to 1975 to fight the South Vietnamese government and American soldiers. It's the tunnels not only for flighting but also for living. We depart at 8:00 am from the hotel and drive on a vehicle out of bustling Saigon City before cycling through several hamlets and rubber plantations to Cu Chi Tunnels. See workers harvest natural latex rubber and stop at a local home to see how rice paper is made.


Arrival at Tunnels: We'll watch a documentary about tunnels during the Vietnam War. Following are booby traps, secret entrances, fighting bunkers, and air holes before we explore three levels of the tunnels, weapon gallery, and shooting range. We'll have lunch at a cozy restaurant by the Saigon River before returning to Saigon in the afternoon.

Northern Charm
Breakfast/ Lunch
Support vehicles
Cold water

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!

Breakfast/
Airport out

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We really enjoyed our trip and appreciated the flexibility of cycling distances, equally the efforts made by our tour guide to customise our trip. Everything ran on true and to plan which was really impressive.

As one small suggestion. Vietnam Backroads may wish to survey the experience/ fitness of tour guests ahead of the trip to help establish an itinerary/ distance ahead of time. We've noted this done by the tour company in the past for hiking tour we have been on. 21 December 2022 - 05 January 2023

Jane Hill from… 06 Jan 2023

I enjoyed the variety of roads. The hotel in A Luoi was below the standard. I understand it is the best in the town. Other hotels were good with several being great. The tour guide was friendly and constantly nice and patient. 21 December 2022 - 05 January 2023

Richard Kingsf… 06 Jan 2023
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