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Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
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Cultural Cycling Holiday Vietnam
Astonishingly exotic and utterly compelling, Vietnam is your home. It is a country of historical vestiges, breathtaking natural beauty, and colorful culture with myriad influences. With a thousand-year history and multi-religious civilization, treasured heritages, and diversified topographical zones, Vietnam is promising to gratify your biking holiday. Getting off the popular short-lived boat trips, discover the granary of Vietnam and the Mekong Delta by cycling on the tracks across countless rivers and orchards. Enjoying the countryside scenery can leave you with unforgettable feelings.
Key Information:
- Trip type: Guided
- Lodging: Point to Point
- Starts in: Ho Chi Minh
- Ends in: Ho Chi Minh
- Total Distance: 216 Miles / 348 Kilometers
- Difficulty level: Challenging (cyclist needs to have a high level of fitness, must be an active rider, the terrain includes really challenging climbs)
Highlights
- 5 days of riding
- Support vehicle/mechanic/backup bike escort group from day 2 to day 8
- Visit the fascinating Ang Pagoda
- Ride on a narrow paved road via the Cai Rang floating market
- Cycle to the killing fields of Vietnam at Ba Chuc
- Experienced English-speaking guide(s) in cycle tours
- 7 nights accommodation
Skill level
- Advanced
5 days with instruction
Group size: 2-14 participants
Accommodation
Standard hotels
- Queen Ann, Saigon
- Mekong Ecolodge (local lodge), Tien Giang
- Cuu Long Hotel, TraVinh
- Saigon Can Tho Hotel, Can Tho
- Hoa Binh Hotel – local 3 star, Long Xuyen
- Chau Pho Hotel – local 3-star, Chau Doc
Superior hotels
- Aristo Saigon, Saigon
- Mekong Ecolodge (local lodge), Tien Giang
- Cuu Long Hotel, TraVinh
- Ninh Kieu Riverside, Can Tho
- Hoa Binh Hotel – local 3 star, Long Xuyen
- Chau Pho hotel – local 3 star, Chau Doc
Deluxe hotels
- Grand Saigon, Saigon
- Mekong Ecolodge (local lodge), Tien Giang
- Cuu Long Hotel, TraVinh
- Victoria Can Tho Resort, Can Tho
- Hoa Binh Hotel – local 3 star, Long Xuyen
- Victoria Chau Doc, Chau Doc
Program
Day 1: Arrival in Vietnam – Hochiminh City
On arrival in Hochiminh City, they will pick you up and transfer you to your hotel. You will first adjust our cycles to your height and then you can either rest from your journey or wander around central Hochiminh City. Hochiminh City is the vibrant and commercial hub of Vietnam. It is a diverse city of the old and the new with many street food stalls, coffee shops, bars, restaurants, and colonial French buildings. Feel free to stop for a cool beer or an iced coffee and watch the world go by.
Note: check-in at the hotel is at 2 pm. Early check-in is subject to availability with supplement.
Day 2: Hochiminh City – Cailay – Caibe
You will be picked up by your bike guide at 7:30 AM from your hotel and take a one-and-a-half-hour drive out of Saigon/ Hochiminh City to visit the Cai Be floating market (one of the famous floating markets in the Mekong Delta!). This is a wholesale market, where tropical fruits and vegetables are sold. If you want to know what they sell you can recognize from the bamboo poles, that they hang what they sell in front of the boats. Stopping in riverside villages and then taking a short walk around to see how locals make coconut candy, popcorn, and rice crispy, and a lunch stop at a local restaurant.
Afternoon bike ride around Cai Be and along the system of the Upper Mekong River, you will see a local riverside market (CaiBe market) on the way, it is the best local market for tourists to have a look around. Then transfer to your accommodation in Tien Giang for relaxation and overnight.
- Distance: 25 km / 16 miles
- Trail difficulty: 3/5
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 3 Vinhlong – Bentre – Travinh
You will pass the Rach Mieu Bridge and keep cycling on country roads towards Que Son. The roads are remote winding roads under a green canopy, which are coconut palms that make this region of Ben Tre famous – and it is far from tourists and the bustle of Hochiminh City! On arrival in the town of Ben Tre, you will take a boat trip around the village and have lunch at a local house. In the afternoon, you will shuttle by minivan over the Ham Luong River and use the ferry following which you will keep cycling to Tra Vinh where you stay overnight.
- Distance: 65 km / 40 miles
- Trail difficulty: 3/5
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 4: Travinh – Cantho
Your first destination today is Tieu Can, where you will discover the beautiful Theravada Pagodas and encounter the Khmer monks (who are originally from Cambodia). A short cycle ride later, you will visit the fascinating Ang Pagoda. From there, you will cycle about 32km to Cau Ke where you will have lunch.
You continue your cycle another 21km to Tra On and take a short ferry trip to Luc Si Thanh islet. Once there, you will drive with the van to the Cai Cu harbor and take the ferry to Can Tho, where you will have dinner at a local restaurant and stay overnight.
- Distance: 53 km / 33 miles
- Trail difficulty: 3/5
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 5: Cantho At Leisure
Breakfast at the hotel. Free all day for relaxation, swimming or shopping in the town center. Lunch and dinner at your own arrangement for more flexibility. Overnight in Can Tho.
- Distance: 0 km / 0 miles
- Trail difficulty: 0/5
- Meals: Breakfast
Day 6 Cantho – Long Xuyen
After a very early breakfast, you ride on a narrow paved road via the Cai Rang floating market. Weave through the morning traders, as you pedal along the banks of the very busy river. Taking in another market, you continue on to Phong Dien Village and eventually stop for lunch. There’s a 30-minute transfer to the town of Long Xuyen. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
- Distance: 95 km / 59 miles
- Trail difficulty: 3/5
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 7: Longxuyen – Triton – Trasu – Chaudoc
After a short early morning transfer to Tri Ton, the cycling starts to undulate as you ride closer to Chau Doc. This afternoon you cycle to the killing fields of Vietnam at Ba Chuc, where Pol Pot’s regime massacred over 3,000 Vietnamese in 1978. The route loops around to Chau Doc along the border. Dinner and overnight in a hotel for the final night in Vietnam. If you have some spare time, you can also visit the Tra Su Forest, which has a great variety of birds and animals, of which some are listed in Vietnam’s Red Book.
- Distance: 110 km / 68 miles
- Trail difficulty: 3/5
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 8: Chaudoc – Hochiminh City Or Phnom Penh
Breakfast at the hotel, then you will transfer to Hochiminh City for departure or continue your trip to Phnom Penh depending on your program. Lunch at a local restaurant.
- Meals: Breakfast and lunch
Please note that hotel check-out time is around 12.00.
Location
This cycling holiday will take place in Ho Chi Minh, Cai Lay, Cai Be, Vinh Long, Ben Tre, Tra Vinh, Can Tho, Long Xuyen, Tri Ton, Tra Su, Chau Doc, Ho Chi Minh.
Food
Meals as mentioned in the program.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
What's included
- 7 nights accommodation in the category chosen or similar
- Meals as mentioned in the program
- All entrance fees and sightseeing as mentioned in the program
- Transportation by vehicle with A/C
- Bicycle tour as per program
- Bike and helmet
- Back-up bike: 1 or 2 backup bikes depending on group size
- Light snack while cycling
- Support vehicle/mechanic/backup bike escort group from day 2 to day 8
- Boat trip in Cai Be, Ben Tre, Can Tho, Cai Rang and Chau Doc as a program
- 2 bottles of water during tour days
- Experienced English-speaking guide(s) in cycle tours
What's not included
- International, domestic flights and airport departure tax
- Meals not mentioned in the detailed program
- Vietnam Visa arrangement and stamp fee (If any)
- Early check-in, late check-out surcharge
- Tipping for guides, drivers, and other local staff
- Banking fee/ Services fee for payment by bank transfer, credit card, or any other payment method
- Other expenses not mentioned in the program
How to get there
Recommended Airports
SGN
Tan Son Nhat International Airport
2 km
Transfer not provided
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 15 days before arrival.
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