Meet in Ha Noi, and your guide make a short briefing about the tour, then take the bike store to check bikes, then take a city tour of Ha Noi. The city with more than 1000 years of history and has become Vietnam's culture and political centre. Visit the Temple of Literature, Hoa Lo Prison, Lunch break in town. In the afternoon, visit the National History Museum, take a walk through the Old Quarter of Ha Noi, Watch the Water Puppet Show and have dinner before boarding the night train to Lao Cai in the evening with your guide.
The train arrives in Lao Cai in the early morning, and your drivers will load your luggage on the support vehicle for an hour drive uphill to Sapa. The transfer through stunning mountain views and lush rice terraces in beneath valleys. Arrives in Sapa, have breakfast at the hotel, drop your luggage at reception, and are ready to explore Lao Chai, Ta Van, and Su Pan villages. Explore the life of Black Hmong, Red Dzay. Enjoy a tasty at the local home of the tribe, and return to Sapa town by vehicle.
Check-in the hotel, have a rest, take a cable car to Fansipan. This is the opportunity for you to view the homes of tribes with beautiful valleys and the Heaven gate. At the Fansipan, you take a walk around, admire more sites and immerse yourself into nature at 360 degrees. The cable car is 6 km, and each turn takes about 15 minutes. Then you can enjoy breathtaking mountain views as long as you wish, finally, return cable car station and back to Sapa. Explore the Sapa town on your own in the evening.
After a hearty breakfast, we commence the ride from the hotel, undulating through the town a couple of km to get out the town, then pass the tea plantations and cycle uphill to the Tram Ton Pass/ Heaven Gate, the highest mountain pass in north Vietnam. We are here for a half an hour coffee break, enjoy the breathtaking view over the Muong Hoa valley and lush jungles stretching down to Binh Lu. Afterwards, enjoy a long descent ride to Tam Duong township, lunch break in town before a 25 km truly off the beaten track, explore scenic villages of Na Hum and Ban Hon. The routes are dirt tracks, and gravel roads are undulate through rice terraces, jungles, and small rivers.
The afternoon ride gives opportunities to visit tribes' homes along the ways and admire charming valleys' natural beauty. Make a stop at the community village of Lu tribes with a few Black Mong Ethnic people. Here we interact with locals, experience the culture and daily life of villagers and take a walk to explore a hundred preserving original wooden stilt houses. See how Lu tribes weaving their costumes and learn more about how the family to keep, store farm products for living until the subsequent harvest crops. Then we continue our adventures through vast rural farms, see buffalos working on fields as we cross through the verdurous vegetation to Lai Chau. Check-in the hotel in Lai Chau city.
Sin Ho town is situated in Hoa Lien Son Range, and it's one of the fascinating plateau regions in northern Vietnam that offers breathtaking mountain views, picturesque valleys, and colourful rice terraces. Sin Ho remote Dist is populated home to colourful tribes of H' Mong, Thai, Dao, and the best time to meet them in the Sunday morning market in town but less on the other days of the week. A wide variety of farm and handmade costume products are available here. The climate is pleasant, with an average annual temperature is about 18 degrees Celsius, an altitude of 900 to 1,800m, Sin Ho is one of the most pristine beauties for mountain bike lovers. The town is about 60 km from Lai Chau, and the roads are quite good and smooth through mountains, and we challenge long passes.
We depart early today and cycle from the hotel as the weather is fantastic for challenging mountain passes through forest jungles. The first 10km is undulating and allows us to warm up the body, then ride uphills to Seo Lang with many stops to admire the incredible scenery along the mountain passes. From Seo Lang village to Sin Ho town, the roads are winding through gentle hills descending the rural farms, passing stilt houses and rice terraces via many tiny hamlets. The sceneries are incredible to Sin Ho valley township.
After leisurely breakfast, and we ride from the hotel, stop off at the market in town, where local tribes gather here every morning but are more bustling and more attractive on Sunday. Afterwards, we ride to Chan Nua, and the ride is more leisurely, more downhill than up. We have plenty of time to get close to Thai Ethnic, visit the local homes, admire the solid wooden stilt houses, and learn more about the culture before we carry on our adventures to deep valleys and down the road 128 to Chan Nua with many endless photos.
Lunch break in Chan Nua village, then we continue the last 20 km to Muong Lay. The ride is undulating along the river and forest and green hills as the sun gradually setting down behind the mountain hills makes your ride more enjoyable. Cross Da River on the suspension bridge to Muong Lay. Check in the hotel, have dinner in town.
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. Our day's adventure 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 local products such as fruits and vegetables, and other simple household goods from different Ethnic groups. Following lunch, we continue the ride to Dien Ben Phu, undulate along the small river, through tiny towns, and colourful rice fields, and fruit orchards along hillsides. The roads are smooth and more down the up, allow us to enjoy watching tiny stilt houses and vast valleys alongside the rivers.
Spend a half-day to explore the De Castries Head Quarter Bunker, then to Dien Bien Phu Museum and former French Military A1 Hill Base. Return to the hotel to check out, and have a tasty enjoy lunch in town. Take the afternoon flight to Han Noi to catch your international flight home. Tour End!
If your travel planed is to continue in Vietnam? Please inform us, and our team will pick you up at Noi Bai airport and transfer you to Ha Noi city.