Nui Ne has gained attention for its attractive beaches in South East Asia. This is a beautiful place that you relax and enjoy swimming after your biking adventures. The beach is shallow and sloped, the water is clean and blue, and the sun is always shining. We visit a place called Sand Hill, which has been a creative subject of artistic photographs and paintings. Besides beaches and dunes, beautiful landscapes such as Suoi Tien (Fairy Spring), the Ong Hoang Building, and the Poshanu Cham Tower. Mui Ne has long been considered the "Hawaii" of Vietnam.
Pongour waterfall is known as the most amazing fall with impressive dimentions in the south of Vietnam. The height of cascades is nearly 40 meters and stretches more than 100m through terraced stones. The waterfalls are surrounded by 25,000 square meters – a primeval forest with a diversity of vegetation and plant cover. It's an ideal location where you can immerse yourself in nature.
Be ready to go after an early breakfast to avoid traffic jam, and we will have a couple of hours of vehicle transfer to rural villages of Tri An where our morning ride starts. Enjoy the gentle ride on back roads, through lush green farmlands, jungle and lake—lunch in a small town before the afternoon ride onwards to the National Park. There are so many stops on the ways; a former volcanic crater, farmlands of chilli pepper, local market. In the evening, a vehicle trip drives you through the jungle. It's a chance you can see animals. The trip will be by jeep, and we’ll enjoy the sights and sounds of animals in the wild.
Breakfast at the hotel in the morning, we enjoy a boat ride on Dong Nai River, listen to bird singing on the way to Monkey Island. Dao Tien is the Endangered Primate Species centre where you can find out a vast number of naturally releasing primates. Many of them had been victims of unlawful wildlife trades but now protected carefully in the forest. Then we go back to the hotel to do check out for a bicycle riding. From the park, we ride on a dirty track through cornfield, valley, ride pass cashew plantation, where there is no traffic at all. Keep cycling onward and passing cashew plantation to a small village by Dong Nai River. After that, we continue our adventure on the single track, trails through the forest to Ma Da Gui town for lunch. The afternoon’ cycling allows you to enjoy mountainous areas through pine forest and coffee plantation on back roads to Dalat city if time permitted.
Dalat called is the “City of Eternal Spring” for its distinctive temperate climate. The other name called by locals is the "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 central highland's agricultural growth. Every local in Vietnam markets filled with local specialities 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 and visit the beautiful Linh Phuoc pagoda. Finally, we return to the hotel, explore Dalat city on foot in the evening.
After breakfast at the hotel, our team and vehicle will transfer you to rural Dist for a mountain biking tour. The hilly landscape offers incredible views, and the weather is lovely to inspire you to get more dirt. With many hand-picked routes, you can enjoy different levels from easy, moderate, and hard OR either select smooth back roads: past greenhouse, farmlands of flowers, coffee, and pine forest along. Then we start to ride downhill on asphalt quiet back road to Ta Nung and Nam Ban, ride pass valley, vegetable plantation, and greenhouses on the way. After we ride downhill about 25 km, we make some stops, see the cricket, and weasel coffee farms before we challenge gentle hills, passing Elephant Waterfall.
Then we challenge some small hills, passing greenhouses then through farmlands to Nam Ha village. Break for coffee, snacks and fruits before riding downhill are to Lam Ha. Stop for lunch at nice restaurant, enjoy Vietnamese coffee and for break. Following the country back roads, we undulate on the small roads, travel through some tiny towns, and tranquil vegetable farmlands. It's a lovely time to observe these beautiful rural villages. Afterwards, we continue biking on trails, down to the Pongour Water Falls. It is a wild and spectacular landscape known as "The greatest waterfall of the South." Spend time to enjoy scenery rounds, listening to bird's singing and admire the most beautiful water falls. Then have a transfer to Duc Trong, check in the homestay by the lake.
After your breakfast, coffee and tea then start cycling from the homestay. We will undulate on quiet back roads, rolling hills through a few km before cycling downhill’s to ethnic group villages, past the hydroelectric power station and coffee plantations. In the afternoon, continue biking on opened air back roads and cycle past cashew plantation, lotus lakes, and challenge some gentle hills to White Sand dunes. Break for coffee and spend more time at White Sand dunes before we continue cycling down to coastal roads, keep pedaling to the Red Sand dunes in Mui Ne. This is great chance for you to enjoy sunset and endless photo opportunity. Have a transfer to hotel. You should arrange a hotel on your own. Tour End!
Biking 4 days/3 nights from HCM - Phan Thiet
Hi Vietnam Backroads, we´re back in Austria and in the cold weather. I wanted to give you some feedback concerning the bike-tour. As I´ve already mentioned my husband and are were very happy with the tour and the guide although we had expected to do more biking. To tell you the truth we haven´t been aware of the fact that Dalat is so far from HCM. BUT we very much enjoyed the trip to Dalat because it was worth it and if we had travelled on our own we wouldn´t have gone there. It was a pitty that the weather was not too good but our guide, Viet, organized an interesting and varied day for us and he showed us a very nice and hidden restaurant in Dalat which we would never have found without him. There we learned how to prepare the Vietnamese spring rolls J. The hotels of the tour were very nice, especially the one in the jungle! You should keep this as a fix part of your tours. Viet was a very good guide and also our driver was very kind and always helpful. 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 Dec, 2017
We would highly recommend Vietnam Backroads Bicycle Tours
It was fantastic experience for my 2 boys and myself. Dat we could not rate more highly. He was very engaging and very informative on the Vietnam history. That we were traveling through. The fruit stop we all enjoyed. We would highly recommend Vietnam Backroads Bicycle Tours. The bikes we could not fault nor the hotels. However, I would strongly state that our fantastic experience came about through our excellent guide Dat. This attention to hygiene was brilliant. We wish Dat and your company all the very best for a successful future. Don, Ben, same Robinson. 17 -18 19 - 20 Dec, 2014
Really fantastic trip!
Hi Ms Hue, Many thanks for your email. We very much enjoyed the trip - and will certainly contact you if we plan another trip to Vietnam! I'm back in Europe now, missing Vietnamese weather, food and cycling! 12 - 15 May 2013