Dec 18, 2015 Cross Border Tours, Cycle from 12 days, CYCLING FROM SAIGON
Saigon Biking To Luang Prabang .Cycle through the remote and very beautiful Saigon along the coast to the northwest mountains of Vietnam and Laos. Mix a biking challenge with a culturally rewarding experience, in a little explored .This superb trip combines some of the best cycling routes in Vietnam and Laos with time to explore this beautiful
Day 1 : Ho chi minh city –Arrival .
Driver pick up at the airport , Transfer to hotel for check in . Free to explore city by your own . O/ N in Ho Chi Minh city .
Accommodation: Le Le Hotel ( Central Hotel )
Day 2 : Hochiminh city – VinhLong – Biking 60 km [B ,L,D]
Tour guide pick up 8:00 AM from your hotel and transfer to VinhLong, is the capital of the province and is a medium-sized town along the banks of the Mekong River about midway between My Tho and Can Tho., Crossing the ferry. Ride from Tra On to An Binh islands along the tree lined roads, there are many of these beautiful small islands in the river, totally given over to agriculture, especially the growing of tropical fruits, which are shipped to Saigon. Some of the most popular islands to visit include An Binh Island with their ‘monkey bridges’, or makeshift footbridges built of uneven logs above the canals. Overnight at home stay in An Binh island – VinhLong .
Summary
Distance: 110 km
Ride: 60 km on flat terrain , transfer 50 km.
Meals : L = Lunch , D = dinner
Accommodation: Home –Stay
Day 3 : Vinh Long – Tra Vinh – Hochiminh city -Biking 50 km [B,L]
Am : After the breakfast. Taking a boat to visit Caibe floating market. a bustling market where wholesalers on big boats moor, each specializing in one or two types of fruit or vegetables. Customers cruise the market in smaller boats, and can easily find what they are looking for as the larger boats hang samples of their goods from tall wooden poles. There are also good views of the huge Catholic cathedral on the riverside. Ride back to Tieu Can to visit old Khmer temple and lotus pond. Drive back to Hochiminh city.Dinner by your own .
Summary
Distance: 120 km
Ride: 50 km on flat terrain , transfer 70 km.
Meals : B = Breakfast , L = Lunch
Accommodation: Le Le Hotel
Day 4: Saigon – Dalat (B ,L,D)
Pick up at your hotel in Saigon .Enjoy 2 hours driving to Dong Nai province. Ride through coffee plantation, pepper on hilly country roads in surounding area of Nam Cat Tien park. Have in Madagui and have another stop at Bao Loc, the homeland of coffee and green tea. Enjoy delicious speciality snack, coffee and tea. Then have a transfer to Dalat.
Summary
Distance: 280 km
Ride: 50 km on flat terrain some uphill and downhill , transfer 230 km.
Meals : B = Breakfast , L = Lunch , D = Dinner
Accommodation: Dai Loi Hotel
Day 5 : Dalat – Nha Trang (B,L )
Start to ride from your hotel in Dalat. Ride through majestic mountains and valleys. Have a picnic lunch in Khank Vinh town. In the afternoon, we ride on backroads through villages to Dien Khanh where we get on a van/bus for a short trip to Nha Trang. Overnight in Nha Trang.
Summary
Distance: 120 km
Ride: 60 km and transfer 60 km.
Meals : B = Breakfast , L = Lunch
Accommodation: Quoc Te Hotel
Day 6 : Nha Trang – Qui Nhon (B,L,D)
Visit the Po Nagar Cham tower in city of Nha Trang and have a transfer out of Nha Trang city, pedal on quiet country roads through rice paddies and beautiful village coastal roads. Enjoy lunch on the way,then continue pedaling on back roads through fishing farms and villages to Tuy Hoa. Transfer 2 hours to Qui Nhon city.
Summary
Distance: 210 km
Ride: 50 km and ransfer 160 km.
Meals : B = Breakfast , L = Lunch , D = Dinner
Accommodation: Quy Nhon Hotel
Day 7 : Qui Nhon – Quang Ngai (B,L,D)
Transfer 30 minutes of out busy city of Qui Nhon. Begin with cycling through rice-paddy to mountain areas . Cycle past many little villages to ocean roads. Today you will have the opportunity to admire beautiful coastal roads. In the afternoon, cycle uphill through mountains, rice fields, and coconut plantations. Transfer by bus/van in the late afternoon to Quang Ngai.
Summary
Distance: 160 km
Ride: 70 km and transfer 90 km
Meals : B = Breakfast , L = Lunch , D = Dinner
Accommodation: My Tra Hotel
Day 8 : Quang Ngai – Hoi An (B,L)
Have breakfast at the hotel start to ride to My Lai village from the hotel. Have a short visit and talk to locals about the massacre of more than 504 locals in 1968. Continue riding 35 km on hilly roads before having lunch in town. After lunch, ride on back roads, passing by white sand dunes. Cycle on broken track trails along the ocean to fish farms. Then continue biking to Hoi An. Overnight in Hoi An.
Summary
Distance: 170 km
Ride: 70 km and transfer 100 km.
Meals : B = Breakfast , L = Lunch
Accommodation: Thanh Van Hotel
Day 9: Hoi An – Hue (B,L )
Van/bus takes you out Hoi An, have a little time to warm up your body before pedaling uphill to the peak of Hai Van pass. Then travel by back roads to the ocean, cycling through fishing villages and an ancient burial-ground of Hue (called a “ghost city” by the locals), to Hue city. Another option, keep biking on a little country roads to Hue city.
Summary
Distance: 130 km
Ride: 70 km ,transfer 60 km.
Meals : B = Breakfast , L = Lunch
Accommodation: Hue DMZ Hotel
Day 10 : Hue – Hanoi (B,L)
Ride to visit the forbidden city, the capital of Vietnam from the 17th to 20th centuries, continue riding on single track trails to the Royal Tombs of the Nguyen Dynasty. Visit the Tu Duc tomb and Khai Dinh tomb before having lunch. Say good bye your team and Fly to Hanoi in the afternoon. Pick up at the airport to Hanoi hotel for check in .
Summary
Distance: 630 km
Ride: 25 km on flat terrain
Meals : B = Breakfast , L = Lunch
Accommodation: May De Villa Hotel
Day 11: Hanoi city tours (B/L/) (no cycling)
Spend a whole day exploring Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. Visit the Temple of Literature, One Pillar Pagoda, the old town of Ha Noi, and Ho Chi Minh complex. See the Water Puppet Show in the evening. Overnight in Hanoi.
Summary
Distance: 40 km
Ride: None
Meals : B = Breakfast , L = Lunch
Accommodation: Mayde Villa Hotel
Day 12: Hanoi – Mai Chau ( 50 km cycling) (B ,L,D)
Pick up at your hotel at 7:30 Am .Transfer out of Hanoi city to Luong Son – picturesque landscapes,starting cycling via Bai Chao village and Kim Boi hot spring until Doc Cun pass and then loading bike to local restaurant for lunch in An Lac town end then transfer by van to the top of Thong Khe pass to down hill to Mai Chau . Arrival in the late afternoon and overnight in the home stay of white Thai ethnic.
Summary
Distance: 150 km
Ride: 80 km ,transfer 70 km.
Meals : B = Breakfast , L = Lunch , D = Dinner
Accommodation: Home- Stay
Day 13 : Mai Chau to Son La ( B , L , D )
We rose early to have another brief cycle before commencing our five hour drive to Son La. As we moved further from major population centres, the drives became more spectacular. Moc Chau is a major tea growing region along the way and definitely worth a stop though not as exciting as it was written up in our itinerary.
The most enjoyable parts of this entire trip were the improvised stops to walk down into villages and commune with minority communities. Those experiences were unforgettable.
We were especially fortunate to encounter a White Thai “cho coc” – a leaping market – as we neared Son La. “Cho coc” refers to a mobile market that sets up on a side road for a day and moves on to another location the following day. We spent close to an hour chatting, laughing and buying fruits from sellers who were incredibly hospitable.
We arrived in Son La at our hotel, The Cong Doan or Trade Union Hotel in the late afternoon. Rooms were as you would expect from a Trade Union Hotel in remote Vietnam – or perhaps a little better. Perfectly adequate in any case.
Summary
Distance: 140 km
Ride: 70 km ,transfer 70 km.
Meals : B = Breakfast , L = Lunch , D = Dinner
Accommodation: Hanoi Hotel
Day 14 : Son La to Dien Bien Phu ( B , L , D )
Son La was once a very small mountain outpost. The French used it as a garrison and then decided that its harsh climate and remoteness made it a suitable location for a prison. These days Son La is expanding rapidly as Vietnam tries to bolster its population across the far north. Tourist arrivals are still tiny though. The town itself has little to recommend it except that it is a convenient stop between Mai Chau and Dien Bien Phu. The simple streetside market not far from the Cong Doan Hotel is friendly and colourful and an early morning visit is a nice way to start the day.
The French era prison is the most well known tourist sight in Son La. In the 1930s, French colonial authorities decided to use the prison for the incarceration of some of the country’s most militant revolutionary leaders.
Like its counterparts in Hanoi and on Con Dao Island in the south, the prison is a timely reminder for travellers overcome with Indochine nostalgia of the brutality of the French rule in Vietnam. It’s also a lesson in how not to quell an insurgency. Many of Vietnam’s most celebrated communist leaders did time in these barbaric prisons. I’ve often wondered whether these prisons in part shaped the harshness of Vietnam’s post 1975 national government – most of the country’s leaders at the end of the war were the alumni of French era prisons.
The prison at Son La is in ruins and features a small museum that celebrates the great achievements of its former prisoners and remembers those who never made it out.
Summary
Distance: 180 km
Ride: 80 km ,transfer 100 km.
Meals : B = Breakfast , L = Lunch , D = Dinner
Accommodation: Him Lam Resort and Hotel
Day 15 : Dien Bien Phu to Muang Khua, Laos ( B ,L ,D )
We depart Dien Bien and cross into Northeast Laos at Tay Trang. This is the least populated section of Laos. We continue on to Muang Khua on the banks of the Nam Ou river.
Summary
Distance: 160 km
Ride: 60 km on dirt road, transfer 100 km.
Meals: Breakfast , L = Lunch , D = dinner
Accommodation: local guest house
Day 16 : Muang Khua to Odomxai ( B ,L ,D )
This is a scenic lightly traveled road to bustling Odomxai. Odomxai seems to be undergoing a rennaisance. Lots of construction and activity in the town these days. They have an airport here also (with less than daily service). We stay at the nicest place in town.
Summary
Distance: 110 km
Ride: 60 km on dirt road, transfer 50 km.
Meals: Breakfast , L = Lunch , D = dinner
Accommodation: local guest house
Day 17 : Odomxai to Pak Mong ( B ,L ,D )
A tough climbing day at the start and then rolling hills with magnificent scenery before a 29 k Descent to Pak Mong.
Summary
Distance: 100 km
Ride: 60 km on good quality asphalt road, transfer 40 km.
Meals: Breakfast , L = Lunch , D = dinner
Accommodation: local guest house
Day 18 : Pak Mong to Luang Prabang ( B ,L )
On to the historic and enchanting city of Luang Prabang. We follow the banks of the Mekong before entering the city proper. It’s also possible, with advance planning, to bike the 20k in the opposite direction to Nong Khiaw and then take a boat down the Nam Ou River. This will take you right by the Pak Ou caves at the confluence of the Nam Ou and Mekong Rivers. End The Tour.
Summary
Distance: 100 km
Ride: 40 km on good quality asphalt road, transfer 60 km.
Meals: Breakfast , L = Lunch
Accommodation: Maonuok Hotel – 3
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Group Size : 2 to 10 traveller
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