Day 1: Hanoi – Ba Be Lake: 240 km
This great Northern Vietnam Motorbike Tour up north of Vietnam starts at around 8 am. We try our best to avoid busy city roads in the morning until Cho Chu town( in Thai Nguyen province) where we have lunch. After lunch, we surely have an enjoyable motorcycle ride to Ba Be because the roads have less traffic and give you a lot of grand mountain views. At about 4 PM. We arrived at Pac Ngoi – a beautiful village of Tay people which is located peacefully at Ba Be lake’s side. Dinner and stay with Tay’s family.
Day 2: Babe Lake – Meo Vac: 170 km
Saying goodbye to the family, we’ll ride bikes on the back-roads through some rustic villages and the jungle. Then we bike across some streams. This promises to be a great day for off-road Vietnam bike touring.
We will stop in Bao Lac town for lunch and then continue the beautiful bike tour from Northern Vietnam to Meo Vac by taking a scenic route that climbs over many Passes where we can enjoy beautiful mountain ranges and the Nho Que river. Arrive at Meo Vac by 5.00PM. Have dinner in town, and Hotel stay.
Day 3: Meo Vac – Ha Giang: 180 Km
Today’s ride promises to be the highlight of this motorcycle trip in north Vietnam as we will visit one of the most remote land in Vietnam where we can see many ethnic groups with their unique cultures and imposing mountains such as : Pi Leng Pass – one of the 4 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 bike ride in Vietnam with many interesting and amazing things in every meter of the road. I Arrived in Ha Giang in the late afternoon.
Dinner and stay with the other Tay’s family or stay in hotel in Ha Giang city
Day 4: Ha Giang – Sa Pa: 220km
Today we head straight towards the North-western mountain where the main Fanxipan Mountain range dominates the road until Sapa. The road is very smooth with a good view of green mountain, rice fields between lovely villages of the hill tribes. After a short break in Lao Cai to see the Chinese border, we will have a very beautiful motorbike ride up to Sapa. This bike ride is up and up till 1.600 meters above sea level. It offers a great view of the mountain with terrace fields and it must be one of the best bike rides in North Vietnam.
Arrive in Sapa at around 5: 00 pm, overnight at a hotel in Sapa.
Day 5: Sapa – Mu Cang Chai: 150 km
You are free to explore Sapa until 1.00PM, check out the hotel and we continue the route to Than Uyen, we will make a splendid climb up from Sapa to the top of the highest road pass in Vietnam (Tram Ton Pass). Crossing into Lai Chau Province at over 2000 m above sea level. This is a short motorbike ride but could be the most enjoyable bike tour from Sa pa. The ride offers you an amazing view of the Hoang Lien mountain ranges for miles and miles. We arrive in Mu Cang Chai by 5.00PM,
Dinner and overnight in a hotel or doing home-stay with the Tay family.
Day 6: Mu Cang Chai – Phu Yen: 190 km
We keep riding up and down into a forested and high mountain region populated by H’mong peoples. We will hike up a very high mountain pass before descending into a mountainous tea-growing region. Soon after we followed along the valley floor covered in a sea of rice surrounded by Hmong and Thai’s villages all the way to Phu Yen. Especially after lunch in Tu Le – a famous land for terrace fields so the ride through the villages and rice terraces. This is another highlight of this bike tour in North Vietnam.
Arrive at Phu Yen town at 5:00Pm. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 7: Phu Yen – Mai Chau Valley 160 km
It is a short bike tour to Mai Chau valley, but it’s also an enjoyable motorbike ride! It offers some different views from the days before with different hill tribes. Right after Phu Yen town, we will have a great ride along the Da River lake on the winding road between the river lake and mountains. It is likely a bike tour on the coastline in central Vietnam. After crossing the Da river by a ferry, we will bike up and up to Moc Chau plateau where we stop for lunch. After lunch, we’ll make a turn to the quiet mountain road named Hua Tat – it’s built by the French during the war time and nowadays, it seems like a forgotten place, so the short ride to Mai Chau is also the best part of the Northern Vietnam bike Tour.
I Arrived at Mai Chau at 4:30 PM. Stay in Poom-coong village of the Thai people – Home stay.
Day 8: Mai Chau – Hanoi. – 170km
Having a short walk around the villages of the Thai people in the morning, feel the peaceful life of the locals by walking around the valley and then start the bike ride back to Hanoi at around 9 AM. After 2 beautiful mountain passes – Thung Khe and Doc Cun we will have lunch and then join the highway back to Hanoi. We will be back to the hotel before rush hours in order to end our 8 Day bike tour in north Vietnam.
