Sai Gon- Long Hai beach- Mui Ne- Di Linh Plateau- Da Lat ( option 1)
This is the most interesting route for travelers to explore the southeast of Vietnam Central, great local foods, stunning view, rich of culture, and beautiful coastal and mountains roads.
Day 1: Sai Gon- Long Hai beaches
The guides will pick you up from the hotel in Saigon, take you to Independent Palace or War Remnant museum to learn more about the Vietnam War, if you did visit those places before, the guide will take you to Cu Chi tunnels, where you can experience the underground battle field of Viet Cong, and learn more about the Vietnam War.
It will take you around a half day to visit and experience, then back to the road again, heading to Ba Ria town, visiting a well known Zen- Pagoda on the way, see how the monks make herb medicine, ride to Long Hai beach , check in and time for relax and swimming or we will go to local market to buy seafoods and having a seafoods party at the hotel.
Day 2: Long Hai – coastal road- Mui Ne
Hiking up to Minh Dam mountains will be the first activity of our tour in the second day. There are many options that you can either choose to explore the base of Viet Cong by craw under the giant granite rock blocks to see where they shelter the bomb or hide themselves or hiking up to the top of mountains to admire the gorgeous view of this areas, then we will ride along the coast, take break in some quiet and beautiful rock beaches, taking a short walk along the beach to stretch your legs and ass, visit the “whale temple” and learn about the culture of fisherman in Vietnam, and walk to the local markets to see how the local people trading, then stop over at the ancient temple of cham people and its history, ride to Mui Ne, check in and relax.
Day 3: Mui Ne- Di Linh Plateau
Another amazing day is awaiting for you to explore, we’ll go to pink sand dunes and white sand dunes. It’s called the desert of Vietnam, walking up for a stunning shots or buy a ticket and go up by jeep.
Back on the bike again, stop-over in dragon fruit farms, try some fresh slices of dragon fruits before we roll up the mountains
Stop over in a village of Hill Tribe and learn about their culture, the zic zac road and the nature will fresh you up, stop-over in a village of another hill tribe group on the top of mountains, learn their tradition, coffee and the stunning view, keep riding on the mountain roads, stop at the tea plantation, see the local people pick off the tea buds, stop in tea factory to see how they process the tea and go to Bao Loc city for over-night.
Day 4: Bao Loc- Da Lat
In the last day of the 4 days trip, you will see many beautiful water falls as well as many local careers such as tea harvesting, coffee harvesting, silkworm raising and natural silk processing from the cocoon, the biggest pagoda in this areas, weasel coffee farm, flower farms will be another stop before we finish the trip in Da Lat.
Sai Gon- Dong Xoai- Ho Chi Minh Trail- Buon Ma Thuot- Lak Lake- Da Lat ( Option 2)
Day 1: Sai Gon- Dong Xoai Town
In the first day, we will visit many places relate to the Vietnam War: the war remnant museum, Cu Chi Tunnels, the bombed bridge, the heroes cemetery…
Day 2: Dong Xoai- Ho Chi Minh road- Buon Ma Thuot
Roll on the highland roads is the highlight today, you will see the everlasting green of the rubber plantations, the neat rows of pepper tilts and coffee plantations, the legend Ho Chi Minh trail in the war time, the daily activities of local people, of course we will learn more about the different Hill Tribes groups in this region.
Not yet, the beautiful water falls in the middle of jungles where you can swim, do water massage, hiking, or BBQ picnic right on the river band.
Back on the bike again then go to Buon Ma Thuot- the biggest City of Western Highlands and the most famous of coffee in the world.
On the way we can stop over to see how they make the dragon dance drums and the long houses ( the traditional houses of Ede Hill Tribe)
Day 3: Buon Ma Thuot- Lak Lake
This town was called the coffee town so you can see the coffee shop everywhere, we should try a cup of coffee of course, then we will go to the village to see some family business such as: making the incense sticks, rice paper as well as the rice noodle and mushroom farms, stop in another village to see the ca cao plantation, get off the beaten track roads and go to Lak Lake
This is the community villages of M’nong Hill Tribe who came from Laos 100 years ago, learn about their tradition in catching and taming elephants, taking photos with elephants or sit on the dugout canoes on the lake to admire the sunset.
Day 4: Lak- Da Lat
Keep riding on the mountain roads up to Da Lat. As you knew that Da Lat is the highest highlands in Southwest of Vietnam ( 1200m above the sea level),
On the way, we can see the local people working on the fields, the stunning mountains views and of course we will stop over in another water falls, silkworm processing factory, weasel coffee farm, flowers farms before we drop you off at your hotel.
Remember: these information is just a basic information, the different season has different things to see, beside the “must see” things in the tour program, there are thousand things to see and learn.
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