Meet in Ha Noi, bike check and install your gear on your bike, trip briefing and lunch in town, enjoy a walking tour, explore the Old Quarter of Ha Noi has 36 ancient commercial streets named after the products. Have dinner before a night train to Lao Cai with the team.

The train arrives in Lao Cai in the early morning. Your guide and driver will take you to a nice restaurant in town for a big breakfast before an hour drive on 40 km on the spiral road up to Sapa, and ready for the adventure to explore Ta Phin, the home of Red Dao Ethnic. Experience the daily life of locals, passing wooden stilt houses, through terraced rice fields, undulate the dirt tracks and concrete paths, cross the beautiful rural farms, see buffalo in areas. Ride past the abandoned colonial old church and strawberry fields and stop off the Red Dao community. Enjoy the warmth of local hospitality, learn more about the culture and the ways of living. Afterwards, we ride to Sapa town. Enjoy lunch in the city, and be free to explore the city on your own in the afternoon until dinner in town.

After breakfast, we will transfer out of Sapa town, and we undulate smooth roads through lush hill farms, enjoy mountain views and challenge small hills to the Sapa Heaven Gate. One of the highest mountain passes in North Vietnam, more than 2000 meters above sea level, with breathtaking scenery and the beautiful nature of the Hoang Lien son and Fansipan mountain range. Great place to enjoy the spectacular beauty of nature before having a great descent down a winding road to Binh Lu.

Then we off roads, ride on small gravel roads, winding through stunning tribe hamlets of Thai, enjoy spectacular jungle scenery up and down the rural plum orchards, through tiny towns—lunch en route. After 13 km off the beaten tracks, we back on national road 32, enjoy mountain landscape, green farmlands with the down and rising but more down than up to Tan Uyen. We follow small roads along the mountain range, explore back Thai and Mong tribes, see the verdant rice terraces, end today's ride at a rural market, and transfer to Than Uyen.

The journey continues cycling from the hotel. We take gravel roads and bike to the rural areas. The routes are undulate through villages of Black Thai tribes, and we ride along the shallow river, pass old suspension bridges, enjoy the tiny valleys along the river. Then we carry on biking on national road 279 to Ban Chat, a hydropower station with a coffee break, and admire the solid power station.

Afterwards, we rest on vehicle transfer 20 km on winding roads, avoid mountain hills along Thuy Dien Lake and the karst mountain range. The sceneries are breathtaking along the lake, but the road is a continuous slope, and most of the slopes are short with high attitudes—lunch en route. The afternoon rides are more adventures as we challenge Cap Na Pass, enjoy stunning scenery, roll spectacular karst landscape, ride downhill through Muon Gion, and cross the Da River on the new Pa Uon bridge to Quynh Nhai. 

After a hearty breakfast, we bike through the town and its outskirts on almost flat roads through paddies before we undulate the jungles on winding roads, view the beautiful valleys and tiny villages along the way to Minh Thang. Follow the national 6, we enjoy the wilderness and incredible scenery of rice terraces and challenge some baby mountain passes, flower Pass and the spectacular winding road through the forest and down to Mun Chung villages. Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant in a small town.

The afternoon rides allow us to discover more the beauty of Nam Muc river with truly spectacular views, lush hills, lovely valleys, mountain views. Many roads are winding, curve and narrow roads along hillsides, gentle mountains where we stop and gaze down the valleys filled with rice terraces and small towns. In small villages, the people who live along roads are Black H'Mong, Black Thai, and Kho Mu Ethnic but more Viet Kinh people in small towns. There are several chances for us to meet colourful tribes in the hamlets. Our guide will figure it out timming, and we will hop on the vehicle and transfer to Muong Lay in the afternoon. Enjoy dinner in town and explore this tiny town on foot in the evening.

After breakfast, we start to rock and roll from the hotel. We cycle through the town, pedal along the river, just a couple of km, we get out of the town, past many small villages by waterways, enjoy a peaceful landscape along the river, cross the river to national road 12. Today's adventures will be on this road to Dien Bien Phu. Enjoy the ride through the natural beauty of diverse mountain regions, winding road green grassy hills, rice paddies, lush rural farms, challenge Ma Phi Ho Pass called Heaven Gate, undulate along mountain jungle with a lunch break in the tiny town of Muong Cha.

Muong Cha market finds various products from tribes, bamboo baskets, colourful tribal costumes, fresh agricultural products such as fruits and vegetables, and other simple household goods from different Ethnic groups. In the afternoon, the ride is undulating lush agricultural farmlands, pass Black Thai tribes sell products freshly on the roadsides, cross many rivers and small towns along rivers and the border. Check-in the hotel and dine in Dien Bien Phu City.

We travel on the vehicle to visit the De Castries Head Quarter Bunker, Dien Bien Phu Museum, and former French Military A1 Hill Base. Then we back to the hotel to check out and have tasty lunch in town before we ride to Muong Phang, visit the Viet Minh commander base of Dien Bien Phu Campaign, passing many remote hamlets of tribes. Passing many tribal wooden houses on hillsides, have a chance the explore rainforest jungles and the lowlands of Muong Phang, the backwaters of Ba Khoang Lake. Cross the lake on numerous small bridges and suspension bridges, pass small fish farms and tiny villages, and explore locals' lives along the lakes. There are many stops and visit local farms, admire the peaceful scenery of the lake.

Afterwards, we ride across the rice paddies to the former head Quarter base of Viet Minh that commanded the battle of Dien Bien Phu before 1954. Stop to visit the Muong Phang historical relic, a giant stone monument featuring a general military commander of Vo Nguyen Giap and many Viet Minh leadership after him. Then we stay on the national road 279B to Na Tau village, where we get on the vehicle at the national road 279 and transfer to Tuan Giao in the late afternoon.

Pha Din pass is 30 km with 1.680mm above the level sea. It had become a legend of Dien Bien Phu Victory. It was the small trails, and Viet Minh (the fathers and mothers of Viet Cong) made up of the small road to supply the weapons, food. It was the most challenging way to use human power to pull artillery from Som La Dien Bien Phu. It was the only main and shortest route to support Viet Minh to defeat the French in Dien Bien Phu during Indochina War.

Today's adventure is one of the most stunning ride of your cycling journey, and enjoy northern Vietnam's most incredible mountain landscapes. We cycle from the hotel, undulate a couple of km through tiny towns along the river before challenging the Pha Din legend Pass. There are 2 roads in between the middle part of the mountain top, and one is 13 km on a new road, and the old road is a well-maintenance smaller than the new one, similar distance without traffic at all. We challenge up about 13 km and enjoy cycling downhill 17 km.

Depends on your cycling skills and ability, you choose the route to challenge and enjoy one of the most beautiful and spectacular karst mountain passes in northern Vietnam. Afterwards, we enjoy riding downhill to the local market, Binh Thuan, our lunch break here. The afternoon' ride is beautiful as it's more leisurely than in the morning adventures. The ride takes us through Black Thai hill tribes, green valleys, and verdant fields of farm products. We will be back on the vehicle transfer to Son La city in the late afternoon.

Moc Chau Plateau offers rich fertile soils, and it has a cold climate suitable for various fruit orchards, tea, plum, avocado, and strawberry plantation. Moc Chau rural villages are also home to a variety of flowers vegetables. After early breakfast, we will transfer 2.5 hours Moc Chau and arrive in Phieng Luong, a rural village outside Moc Chau. We cycle on an old national road 6, passes many small towns, and through lush valleys, green hills, and extensive lush vegetation. Lunch is on the way in a small town. The areas provide a fascinating Plateau in North Vietnam for nature lovers to explore the vast undulating plain on snake roads. The routes are less traffic, and well-maintenance allow the support vehicle travelling and always behind us. Transfer to Mai Chau, check into the rustic homestay. 

After breakfast, we enjoy a leisurely loop ride on concrete paths, through rice terraces to Poom Coong, to Lac villages. Visit family businesses selling Thai ethnic costumes and interact with villagers before we ride back to the hotel on a different route. Check out for a short transfer to Hoa Binh lake, then we ride along the lake, enjoy the beautiful scenery of the lake/ Da River through the lush jungles on snaking narrow roads. Then we ride into Ba Khan village, cross rice paddies, pass stilt houses, undulate through vast agricultural lands, tiny villages, and we end up cycling adventure at Phu Cuong market. Lunch en route before 3. hours transfer back to Ha Noi.

Ha Noi is Vietnam's capital city and political centre. The city offers examples of both contemporary and classical architecture, especially the Old Quarter of Ha Noi. Spend your time shopping until a transfer takes you to Noi Bai airport to catch your international flight home. Tour End!