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Private Guided Motorcycle Tour in Vietnam
This tour is a great mixture of on and off-road rides that cover almost the beautiful landscapes in North Vietnam with Ba Be National Park, Ban Gioc waterfalls, Dong Van, Ha Giang Rock plateau, Sapa, and the most interesting parts of the Ho Chi Minh trail with DMZ. The northern Vietnam part offers more off-road rides and culture discovery and the southern part on the Ho Chi Minh trail is an easier ride offering more historical sites to learn more about Vietnam's history.
Key information
- Terrain: 20% off-road
- Bike: rental bike (XR150L)
- Mileage: 2,300 kilometers / 1429 miles
- Daily rides: 110 - 290 kilometers / 68 - 180 miles
- Riding gear: pants, jacket, gloves, helmet, rain gear, and other safety equipment are available at a favorable rental rate
- Meals: Breakfasts, lunches, dinners with non-alcoholic beverages are included
Highlights
- Tour starts in Hanoi, ends in Hoi An
- Visit historical sites such as the museum of the 17th parallel and the Vinh Moc tunnel
- Admire the amazing views at Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park
- Beautiful ride on the coastline of Vietnam to Da Nang
- Ride through rustic villages and green rice fields
- Get a glimpse at the life of local tribes
- 16 nights accommodation
Skill level
- Intermediate
- Advanced
18 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: French
Group size: Maximum of 10 participants
Airport transfer available:
Noi Bai International Airport (US$ 18 per person)
Noi Bai International Airport (US$ 18 per person)
Accommodation
You will stay at hotels and homestays along the route.
Program
Day 1: Hanoi - Ba Be National Park
Pick up from your hotel at 8 a.m. Transfer to the starting point and start the ride at around 9:00 a.m. The group will try their best to avoid busy city roads in the morning until Cho Chu town (in Thai Nguyen province) where you have lunch. After lunch, you surely have an enjoyable motorcycle ride to Ba Be because the roads have less traffic and offer a lot of green and peaceful views of nature / mountains. At about 4 p.m., you arrive in Pac Ngoi, a beautiful village of Tay people which is located peacefully at Ba Be lake’s side. Dinner and stay with the Tay family.
- Distance: 240 kilometers / 149 miles
- Accommodation: Homestay
Day 2: Ba Be National Park - Boating - Cao Bang
The sound from the Ba Be National Park or from the dogs, pigs, and chickens in the villages may wake you up earlier than normal but that’s the chance to feel the morning fresh air and experience the new day in a remote area of Vietnam. After breakfast with the Tay family, you take a short walk to the Babe Lake pier to start the two-hour boat cruise around the largest natural lake in Vietnam, Ba Be Lake.
After another lunch in Pac Ngoi village, you will have an easy motorcycle tour to Cao Bang. The ride is about 150 kilometers from the village and it is almost on the smooth road up and up to Cao Bang where you stay the second night. Overnight in Cao Bang.
- Distance: 150 kilometers / 93 miles
- Accommodation: Hotel
Day 3: Cao Bang - Ban Gioc Waterfall - Quang Yen
This is another highlight of this Northern part, after saying goodbye to the host the experienced guide of Vietnam Motorbike Tour Expert will take on the scenic back roads leading to the Chinese border. The ride is almost on-road, offering an amazing view of mountains and rice fields between villages of the ethnic people.
You’ll be at the Chinese border where you can see the biggest and most beautiful waterfall in Vietnam, Ban Gioc, at noon. Stop riding for lunch and then spend the relaxing time taking pictures or swimming at the waterfall. After a great time with the waterfall, you’ll be back on the beautiful roads and enjoy again the motorbike ride to the little peaceful town of Quang Uyen. You’ll arrive at the family of the Tay people nearby the town at 5:00 p.m., get off the bikes then enjoy a relaxing time with the family.
- Distance: 150 kilometers / 93 miles
- Accommodation: Homestay.
Day 4: Quang Yen - Meo Vac
It’s another big day ride but not so hard. The ride is mostly on paved roads with easy off-road. Offering some interesting visits to villages of the Tay, Dzao, and H’Mong people. End the day at the hotel in Meo Vac at around 5:00 p.m. Overnight in Meo Vac.
- Distance: 200 kilometers / 124 miles
- Accommodation: Hotel
Day 5: Meo Vac - Ha Giang
Today’s ride promises to be the highlight of this motorcycle trip in Vietnam as you will visit one of the most remote lands in Vietnam where you can see many ethnic groups with their unique cultures and imposing mountains such as Pi Leng Pass, one of the four longest and most beautiful passes in North Vietnam, the Rock Plateau, the Vuong palace in Dong Van, The “Heaven Gate” in Quan Ba. This is for sure the best motorbike ride in Vietnam with many interesting and amazing things on every meter of the road. Arrive in Ha Giang in the late afternoon. Overnight in Ha Giang.
- Distance: 180 kilometers / 112 miles
- Accommodation: Hotel
Day 6: Ha Giang - Thac Ba Lake
Leaving Ha Giang city at around 8:30 a.m., you’ll shortly take the small roads to have an easy and slow ride through villages. Lunch in the little town of Luc Yen. After that, you will ride along the side of the largest man-made lake in Vietnam, Thac Ba lake. You’ll stop the ride at the quiet village nearby the lake then spend one and a half hours cruising around this beautiful lake. Stay at a house on stilts with the Dzao people.
- Distance: 170 kilometers / 106 miles
- Accommodation: Homestay
Day 7: Thac Ba lake - Sapa
After breakfast with the family, you will great motorbike ride along the Thac Ba lake. This ride promises to be one of the best motorcycle tours in North Vietnam. It offers a great view of mountains, the green lake, and rice fields. After lunch in Pho Rang town, you continue the motorbike tour to Sapa. You will have a stop to visit the border to China, just to have a look at China from Vietnam.
The last 40 kilometers of the motorbike ride to Sapa must be a highlight of the Vietnam motorbike tour today because you will hit the road up and up to the level of 1600 meters above the sea where Sapa town is located. This gives you plenty of chances to take amazing pictures of terrace rice fields and colorful hill tribes. You will be in Sapa at about 5:00 p.m.
- Distance: 220 kilometers / 137 miles
- Accommodation: Hotel
Day 8: Sapa
There are a few options for a relaxed day in Sapa. You can have a short walk around the town or take a cable car up to the highest peak of Vietnam, Fanxipan, or have another easy and short ride along the beautiful Muong Hoa valley to see some other villages of the H’Mong, Zay, or Tay people. Stay in the holel in Sapa.
Day 9: Sapa - Than Uyen
After leaving Sapa, you will have a great motorbike ride down to Than Uyen town. The motorbike ride to Than Uyen from Sapa is another highlight of this Vietnam Motorbike Tour because you will cross the O Qui Ho pass, one of the longest and most beautiful passes in Northern Vietnam. After the mountain pass, you will motorbike on the smooth sealed road through green tea fields, and some off-road then arrive at Than Uyen town at 4:00 p.m.
- Distance: 110 kilometers / 68 miles
- Accommodation: Hotel
Day 10: Than Uyen - Mu Cang Chai - Phu Uyen
Start the ride at 8:30 a.m. Today you will have another great motorbike ride in north Vietnam. It is almost on a mountain road with an amazing view of terrace fields and crosses a lot of rustic villages of hill tribes. This is a typical motorcycle tour in Northern Vietnam, you are just winding through the mountain back roads and stopping every half an hour to take pictures or chat with colorful local people. You will be in Phu Yen at 5 p.m.
- Distance: 220 kilometers / 137 miles
- Accommodation: Hotel
Day 11: Phu Uyen - Mai Chau
This is a short motorbike tour of North Vietnam but it promises to be one of the best parts of the trip. After getting out of town, you’ll have a beautiful motorbike ride along the Da river lake, this ride reminds you of the motorcycle tour on coastal roads. The route is almost empty in the middle of the mountain and the river lake. After the motorcycle ride along the river, you will motorbike up and up to the Moc Chau plateau which is famous for green tea and cool temperature. After lunch, you’ll make a turn to a small mountain pass to ride down to Mai Chau valley. You will end the great Northern Vietnam motorbike tour in Mai Chau at 4:30 p.m. then you can spend the rest time of the day having a short walk around the peaceful village of the Thai people.
- Distance: 170 kilometers / 106 miles
- Accommodation: Homestay
Day 12: Mai Chau - Tan Ky
From today, you will start to ride all the way down to central Vietnam on the Ho Chi Minh trail. After breakfast and saying goodbye to the host, you will have a very interesting Mai Chau motorbike tour through the rustic villages of the Thai people and green rice fields. When you get out of the valley, you will keep riding on a small, spectacular, and paved trail along the Ma river until Cam Thuy town where you stop for lunch. After lunch, just enjoy a relaxing motorcycle tour Ho Chi Minh trail to Tan Ky. You arrive in Tan Ky town at about 5:00 p.m.
Tan Ky is known as the starting point of the Ho Chi Minh trail during the war. At that time, all the troops with food and staff gathered in Tan Ky and started to march to the south of Vietnam on the trail to join the war in DMZ. Tan Ky now is a little town located by the sides of the Ho Chi Minh trail, it’s a peaceful town surrounded by mountains.
- Distance: 260 kilometers / 162 miles
- Accommodation: Hotel
Day 12: Tan Ky - Phong Nha
You continue the Vietnam Motorbike tour on the Ho Chi Minh trail to Phong Nha and Ke Bang National Park. The ride offers some stops to see the green tea farm and villages of hill tribes. Especially, the Ho Chi Minh trail motorbike ride in the afternoon offers an amazing view of the mountains, it reminds you again of the limestone mountains in Halong bay. The karst formation of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park has evolved since the Paleozoic (some 400 million years ago) and so is the oldest major karst area in Asia. Subject to massive tectonic changes, the park’s karst landscape is extremely complex with many geographic features of considerable significance. You will arrive in Phong Nha at around 4:30 p.m., and if time and weather permit, you can have a short boat trip along the green river to go through some famous caves.
- Distance: 290 kilometers / 180 miles
- Accommodation: Hotel
Day 13: Phong Nha - Khe Sanh
Unlike many other Vietnam motorcycle tour organizers, Vietnam Motorbike Tour Expert will take you to Khe Sanh on the western Ho Chi Minh trail. The western trail is known as the hidden trail that the Us Army did never know to bomb, the trail runs through the National park of Phong Nha - Ke Bang, in more than 200 kilometers, you will just see few other motorbikes but a lot of beautiful and beautiful mountain view. The ride on this trail could be one the best motorcycle tours in Vietnam, especially, after getting out of the Phong Nha National Park, you will get a chance to visit the former US Merine Base with tunnels, an air base, and an interesting museum of Khe Sanh. You will finish the great western Ho Chi Minh trail motorbike tour at about 5:00 p.m.
- Distance: 220 kilometers / 137 miles
- Accommodation: Hotel
Day 14: Khe Sanh - DMZ - Hue
This is another busy day with visits to famous attractions in DZM to learn more about the Vietnam war. You will leave the Ho Chi Minh trail to ride on another historical road No 9 to the east and get closer to the coast of Vietnam. It is a short ride but you should pay a lot of visits to some interesting historical sites such as the Hien Luong bridge, known as the symbol of the border between the north and the south of Vietnam, the museum of the 17th parallel, and the famous Vinh Moc tunnel. After lunch nearby the tunnels, you will have a short motorcycle tour to Hue. Arrive beautiful city of Hue at around 5:00 p.m.
- Distance: 180 kilometers / 112 miles
- Accommodation: Hotel
Day 16: Hue
After breakfast in the hotel, you will have an enjoyable time discovering the charm of Hue city. Based on your mood, you can take a motorcycle tour around Hue to see some tombs of the kings along the Huong river or have an easy bus tour around the city. You will be back in the city to have lunch at one of the famous food streets in Hue. In the afternoon, take your free time to relax at the beach or have more walks around Hue or do some shopping. Dinner is on your own, just feel free to enjoy your favorite food in Hue.
Day 17: Hue - Hoi An
The last day of this motorbike tour in Vietnam is completely different from the days before. Right after getting out of Hue city, you will have a great motorbike ride along the coast through some fishing villages and colorful fields of tombs. The view is quite different from the view of the mountain along the Ho Chi Minh trail, especially the motorbike ride across the Hai Van pass. It must be one of the best motorcycle tours on the coastline of Vietnam. You will be in Da Nang city at around 2 p.m. You can choose to stay in the coastal city of Da Nang or keep riding around 30 kilometers more to Hoi An ancient town before ending up and saying goodbye. Trip ends.
- Distance: 170 kilometers / 106 miles
Skill level(s) required for this tour: intermediate, advanced
Intermediate:
- can ride for 3-4 hours
- average riding experience
- little assistance required
- comfortable with extreme curves and leans
- average experience with unsurfaced roads
- steep ascents and descents
Advanced:
- can ride for 5-6 hours
- extensive riding experience
- assistance on demand (if required)
- experienced with riding a variety of motorcycles
- comfortable with any terrain and weather conditions
Location
Food
All of the meals are offered from local restaurants, hostels, and homestays along the tour. They come with regular Vietnamese or vegetarian foods. Western food is available at an extra cost.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
- Other dietary requirements on request
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
What's included
- Experienced tour guide on a motorbike (dirt bike)
- Dirt bike Honda XR150L, CRF150L upon availability
- Gasoline and spare parts
- 16 nights accommodation in standard hotels (double, twin, or triple shared room) and/or homestays (sleeping bags, mosquito nets, sheets, and pillows are provided) during your ride
- Breakfasts, lunches, and dinners with non-alcoholic beverages (Vietnamese food, and Western food cost extra)
- All entrance fees, permits, tickets, boat trips, ferries, bamboo rafts, etc
- Vietnamese tea and drinking water
What's not included
- Support vehicle for luggage transport, backup bike, and service
- Personal expenses, personal medical insurance
- Drinks other than tea and local rice wine
- Single room supplement if you request a single room
- Motorbike protection pants, jacket, gloves, helmet, rain gear, and other safety equipment at a favorable rental rate
- Train or flight tickets before and after your tour
- Breakfast on the departure day and dinner on the return day
- Accommodation and food in Hanoi
- Tips
How to get there
Recommended Airports
HAN
Noi Bai International Airport
20 km
Transfer available for additional US$ 18 per person
Airport: Noi Bai International Airport
Airport transfer available:
Noi Bai International Airport (US$ 18 per person)
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Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 20% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.
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