HISTORIC SAIGON MOTORBIKE TOUR TO HUE VIA CENTRAL HIGHLANDS & HO CHI MINH TRAILS

Itinerary:

Vietnam motorbike tour from Saigon to Hue on Ho Chi Minh Trail – Itinerary :

Day 1:  Saigon motorbike tour to Lagi (140 km – 6 hours riding)

This morning, we will leave the hustle and bustle Saigon for Lagi. We visit Minh Dam Army Base, Thuong Chieu Monastery pagoda and dip your body in the hot water springs, Binh Chau. We will learn more about Buddhism when you go to visit Long Ban old pagoda and the historic vestige Dinh Mountain. Stay overnight in Lagi

Meals: Lunch, Dinner

Day 2: Vietnam motorbike tour from Saigon to Hue : Lagi motorbike tour to Takou and Mui Ne (130 km – 4 hours riding)

Heading to Mui Ne after vising Thay Thim temple, Takou mountain, colorful fishing market, we learn more about the Champa history and culture when you visit their old towers. You can cool off in the ocean in Mui Ne beach after a hot day traveling.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 3: Vietnam motorbike tour from Saigon to Hue : Mui Ne motorbike tour to Bao Loc (160 km – 5 hours riding)

Leaving Mui Ne in the early morning to visit the fishing village, fairy springs, red canyon, white sand dunes,  we also drop by the local families to know the daily life of farmers who plan the dragon fruits. We continue traveling to the Central Highlands and stop in the K’ho ethnic minority village to learn the culture of their wild life in the edge of the Central Highlands. End of the day, we arrive in Bao Loc after visiting Dambri waterfall – about 90 meters high. Over night in Bao Loc
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 4: Vietnam motorbike tour from Saigon to Hue : Bao Loc motorbike tour to Dalat (140 km – 4,5 hours riding)

Leaving Bao Loc for Dalat, we visit the green tea farms, the cascade waterfall, Pongour, mushroom farms, silkworm villages and silk processing chains, tea plantations, coffee, vegetable and flower farms. We land in Dalat around 4 p.m.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Day 5:  Dalat motorbike tour to Lak Lake (165 km – 5 hours riding)

Departing the ‘Le Petite Paris’ after visiting the highlights of the city like, Crazy House, Flower Market, Dragon Pagoda, we leave for the countryside to explore the rural life of the farmers who cultivate on their lands. We stop for lunch and try the different dishes of the Vietnamese cuisine.

Visiting the orange agent areas to learn more the Civil War of Vietnam before 1975, we continue trekking through the jungle to relax and enjoy the breath-taking nature of the Central Highlands. We then visit chopstick making factory, the rice agriculture of the M’nong ethnic minority village. Lak Lake will be a place where you stay overnight but you can choose to homestay with locals or in the resort facing natural lake with 6.000.000 square meters.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 6:  Lak Lake motorbike tour to Cu Jut (100 km – 3 hours riding)

Leaving Lak Lake for Buon Me Thuot City after learning the daily life of locals, riding elephant to explore the area or riding boat around the lake to have some great shots of the sunrise on the lake, or fishermen, trekking to the top of the Elephant Rock mountain to enjoy the panoramic view of the area. Stop in the city to try Vietnamese fresh spring rolls for lunch.

Heading to Dray Sap fall (the most beautiful waterfall) where you can dip your body into the Fairy Pool next to waterfall after a hot day traveling. Go to Virgin waterfall and stay overnight in the bungalow or in the Long House in the jungle.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 7:  Cu Jut motorbike tour to Pleiku (230 km – 8 hours riding)

Riding on the old Ho Chi Minh trail to learn more about the history of Vietnamese people during the French colony and the Civil War, the daily life of highlanders who live along the roads to learn how to make rice papers, noodles. Pleiku is place where you stay overnight after a long day ride.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 8: Pleiku motorbike tour to Mang Den and Kon Tum (180km – 6 hours riding)

Visit the highlights of the city then head to Sea Lake , which used to be a volcanic crater that stopped working a million years ago., a great place to take some good photos for the trip, also considered the ‘Eyes of Pleiku’. Continue traveling to Kon Tum where you visit Kon Tum Prison, wooden church, orphanage, especially the Kon Ktu village where you see the Ede hill tribes Rong house and learn their traditions and culture by their custom and daily life. We stay overnight in Kon Tum.

Day 9: Kon Tum motorbike tour to Kham Duc (170 km – 6 hours riding)

Continue traveling on the Ho Chi Minh trail to visit the well-known Phoenix Airport , Charlie hill to know more about the war between Northern and Southern Government. We will learn more the different cultures of Ch’ru, Bana, Thai, some of the 44 different ethnic minority groups in the Western Truong Son Mountain. After that, we will reach Kham Duc, a small mountain town on Ho Chi Minh trail and stay overnight.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 10: Kham Duc motorbike tour to Hoi An (130 km – 4,5 hours riding)

After breakfast, we will explore the local market of the mountain town of Kham Duc to learn more the rural life of the highlanders as well as other ethnic minorities. Leaving Kham Duc for Hoi An after visiting the marvelous Truong Son Mountain and Ho Chi Minh trail, the typical Rong houses of Tay hill tribe, My Son Holy Land Cham Towers. We  check in the ancient town Hoi An around 4 p.m
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 11:  Hoi An motorbike tour to Hue (175 km – 6 hours riding)

Leaving Hoi An for Hue, we visit incense and mat making villages to learn more about the rural life of locals who live in the Central Vietnam, Marble Mountain, ceramic making village…ect. We stop on the top of Hai Van Pass to have some great shots of the panoramic views between beach and mountain between Da Nang and Hue. Having lunch and relaxing on one of the most beautiful beaches of Vietnam, Lang Co Beach, we visit conical hat making village in Phu Bai before arriving in Hue around 5 pm.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 12: Hue (around 100 km – 3 hours riding)

Hue was used to be an ancient capital of Vietnam, so it’s worth staying one day to visit and learn more about the Vietnamese traditions, history, customs, culture. Go to visit Linh Mu pagoda, Kim Long old village where you can learn the Vietnamese people make the traditional rice wine, the way locals harvest rice on the fields, Hue Museum , citadel. We get on the boat to listen to Hues folk songs at night. The end of tour!
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch,
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