Overview
The remote mountainous area of Ha Giang offers breathtaking views and interesting subcultures. It is the least traveled area of the North and attract hardier travelers craving a glimpse of some of the most remote ethnic minority people. Come to discover the most remote areas of Vietnam with amazing preserved landscape and rich culture here. Ha Giang and Ba Be Lake are a good combination for this mountain loop driving trip. The features of the two destinations are very different: Different colors, different activities, different people...
This trip offers a stunning motor biking route, is organized for experience rider and quite difficult adventure.
(Our travel consultants are also happy to customize this journey to suit your specific interests and style of travel. We can arrange for longer or shorter stays, offer hotel upgrades, or add an extension to additional places of interest)
Vietnamese Bike Tours At Glance
- Duration: 5 days / 4 nights
- Tour Type: Private Tour
- Departure: Hanoi
- Theme: Adventure Tours , Motorbike Tours
Highlights
- Explore the stunning and hidden terrace rice field
- Super awesome and breathtaking landscape of motorbike road
- Enjoy the pleasant boat ride in Vietnam's biggest fresh-water lake and Nang River in Ba Be National Park
- If you can’t drive, don’t worry, we have a tour guide to drive for you, you just only seat back and enjoy. If you are professional driver and want to drive on the high speed motorbike, please let us know to arrange the bike for you.
- Tour Guides: Our experienced and friendly Tour Guide speaks excellent English. They are extremely knowledgeable about local cultures, history and the environment. Our tour guide will make your desires for adventure a reality
Tour itinerary
The Vietnam motorbike tour to Ha Giang – Ba Be departs at 8 AM from west part of Hanoi. We try the best to get away from busy city traffic in the morning until Cho Chu town – Thai Nguyen province where we stop for lunch. Having lunch, Promise that the riding crew have very joyful motorbike tour to Ba Be Lake as the roads are almost empty traffic and offer you a lot of stunning mountain view. We arrive Pac Ngoi at 4 PM. Pac Ngoi is an amazing rural village which located inside Ba Be national park. Stay overnight with local family. Ends the 1st day motorbike tour Northeast Vietnam.
Accommodation: Homestay
Family meal time at homestay
Get up early to have break with the friendly locals, after having breakfast then we take a walk to the boat station for about an hour boat tour to sightsee around the biggest natural lake in Vietnam. Heading back to the homestay. After lunch, we will have a fantastic off-road motorbike tour. The ride through the national park could be the highlight because we ride across many small villages and little lakes, streams. The ride is challenging but fruitfully paid back. The motorbike crew arrive Bao Lac at 5 PM. Finishes the 2nd day north Vietnam motorbike tours.
Accommodation: Standard Hotel with basic facilities
Bao Lac - Cao Bang Province
It could be the most wonderful Vietnam motorbike tour today, the ride to Dong Van is the paradise for bikers from all over the world. The ride start at 08:30 Am, slowly touring along the Gam river to sightsee the amazing mountains and mountains. Lunch is served in Meo Vac. After lunch, promisingly the best motorcycle tour in Vietnam because we will have to ride across Ma-Pi-Leng mountain pass (It’s the longest and most incredible passes in Northern Vietnam. We will be stunned by the incredible views every meters. Arrive in Dong Van at 4 pm.
Accommodation: Standard Hotel with basic facilities
Dong Van Old Town
Riding to Ha Giang, the crew has chance to ride through the most difficult part of the country (the poorest region in Vietnam) but the landscape is breathtaking. You will be astonished by colorful hilltibes's culture and lifestyle. This is wonderful motorbike trip with many highlights as the Vuong Palace in Dong Van, Heaven Gate in Quan Ba, Ma Pi Leng pass, Nho Que River. This Vietnam motorbike tour to Ha Giang is promisingly the best motorbike tours in North Vietnam. We arrive in Ha Giang at 4:30 pm.
Accommodation: Standard Hotel with basic facilities
Ma Pi Leng Pass
After breakfast with the hosts, we have relax motorbike touring on road No 2 for 45 km, and then we will make a turn to a small road to Pho Rang – the motorcycle ride is on a small bumpy road but landscape is completely different from what you have seen in some days before. The view is the wonderful mixture of green mountain, sugar cane, rice fields and graceful villages of the minority people. Lunch is served in Pho Rang.
After lunch we will have easy ride down to Lao Cai on the winding road with the different view from what we’ve seen in northeast part. Getting down near Lao Cai station, we will stop near the Vietnam – China border and enjoy a cup of Vietnam coffee. Stop at the train station then put our bikes on train. Walk back to local restaurant to enjoy dinner before heading back to Hanoi by train on soft-sleeper cabin.
Special Information about train:
Sleeper trains typically have four berth compartments (occasionally six berth depending on seasonal variations and group configuration), which have bench seats that convert into sleeping bunks. A sheet, pillow and blanket are provided, although some travelers prefer to bring their own sleeping sheet. On occasion, passengers of different genders will be required to share a compartment and there will be times where you'll be sharing with local travelers or others who are not part of your group. Some trains have a dining carriage serving simple food or snack carts, but travelers tend to prefer to take some of their own snacks (bread, cookies, fruit etc.) in case of getting the munchies.
Accommodation
Homestay (2 nights)
Clean and comfortable homestay
Train (soft sleeper, sharing cabin train) (1 night)
Special Information about train: Sleeper trains typically have four berth compartments (occasionally six berth depending on seasonal variations and group configuration), which have bench seats that convert into sleeping bunks. A sheet, pillow and blanket are provided, although some travellers prefer to bring their own sleeping sheet. On occasion, passengers of different genders will be required to share a compartment and there will be times where you'll be sharing with local travellers or others who are not part of your group. Some trains have a dining carriage serving simple food or snack carts, but travellers tend to prefer to take some of their own snacks (bread, cookies, fruit etc) in case of getting the munchies.
Meals
Transportation
Bus
Motorbike: Honda (or Yamaha) 110-125CC (semi-automatic gear)
Train
Price Includes
- All transfers and sightseeing per itinerary in air-conditioned vehicles
- Vietnam Visa Approval Letter (Stamp fee is not included)
- Homestays
- Meals as stated in the program (B= breakfast, L= lunch, D= dinner)
- Experienced English Speaking Tour Guide & 24/7 hotline support guaranteed
- All entrance and sightseeing tickets as mentioned in the program
- Drinking water available on the vehicles (01 bottle water/pp/day)
- Motorbike:
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- Yamaha_125cc
- Honda_xr_150cc
- Honda_xr_250cc
- Gasoline for the tour
- Helmet
Price Excludes
- Optional tours
- Surcharges for other language guides
- Surcharges for Lunar New Year (TET) holiday
- Personal travel insurance
- Personal expenditure, such as drinks, souvenirs, laundry, camera fees, communications, postage, gratuities etc.
- Meals and services other than mentioned in the program
- Drinks with meals
- Visa stamp fees at Vietnamese embassies overseas and/ or upon arrival (Please note that a visa is compulsory for most nationalities.)
- Other services not mentioned above.
Important Notes
- We strongly recommend the purchase of travel insurance (covering emergency medical evacuation) for trips to Vietnam
- Prices are valid 30 days from date of offer. Past this date price and conditions may be readjusted
- If one or some proposed service(s) is (are) not available at the moment of booking, we will try to find other possibilities/options or other similar service(s) in order to avoid changes to the program.
- Accommodation is expected to be basic but the top of the areas will be used for your best comfort possible. Food is very local, too. There is no western food to expect except bread, fried eggs for breakfast at some places. Meals are at local food stores but we always choose the most acceptable one.
- NOTE ABOUT TRAIN:
- Our tour guide will not accompany during the train trip
- Train schedule is subject to change
- Private compartments on request at surcharge\
- Train journeys are part of a great local experience
- Cabins are shared with other local passengers (unless private cabin is requested and all berths paid for - with supplement)
- Restrooms at either end of the carriages complete the local experience.