Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City - Long Hai beaches (read more at Ho Chi Minh City - Da Lat in 4 days trip)
Day 2: Long Hai- coastal roads- Mui Ne beaches (read more at Ho Chi Minh City - Da Lat in 4 days trip)
Day 3: Mui Ne- Di Linh plateau- Bao Loc City (read more at Ho Chi Minh City - Da Lat in 4 days trip)
Day 4: Bao Loc City- Da Lat (read more at Ho Chi Minh City - Da Lat in 4 days trip)
Day 5: Da Lat- Lak Lake
After visit the attractive spots of Da Lat like the Crazy House, French villages, the oldest railway station, we get out of the tourist city to visit the Truc Lam Zen Monastery, Tuyen Lam reservoir then stop at “chicken village”- a minority village of K’Ho hill tribe. Ride along the vegetable farms to see how the local people cultivate the vegetables, stop in mushroom village to take a look, then ride up on the mountain roads, stop in high points to enjoy the landscape, stop in a restaurant on the top of mountain for lunch.
After lunch, we’ll keep ride on the mountain roads to Lak lake, passing many hill tribe people villages, admire the sunset on the lake.
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Day 6: Lak lake- Buon Ma Thuot City
In the early morning, you should take a walk along the lake and the rice fields nearby to breath the fresh air and wait for the sunrise, enjoy the quiet and the peaceful of the lake, see the fisherman fishing on the lake by dug-out canoes, then back to hotel for breakfast and coffee, play with the elephants, then we will walk along the villages of M’nong hill tribe, see their daily activities and learn about their culture.
Hit the road again! We will roll on narrow roads in the middle of rice fields, stop anywhere that you want to take a shot, stop in pepper farms and cacao farms to learn about it, ride to the biggest water falls for hiking, swimming and make BBQ picnic right on the river band, relaxing and then ride to Buon Ma Thuot City for overnight, on the way, we will stop in a family factory to see how they make incense sticks.
Check in
Dining out
Day 7: Buon Ma Thuot City- Kontum
Today is the longest ride of the trip!
Heading forward North of Buon Ma Thuot to Kontum, the highway 14 was also called the Ho Chi Minh road in the past, this is the longest highway to connect the Central Highlands to many other city in the coast city such as Nha Trang, Qui Nhon… as well the main road to transit farm products to south cities like Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai, Binh Duong… in which concentrate many industrial parks.
Stop to visit a family who make drums, then roll on the hilly roads in the middle of the everlasting green of rubber farms, coffee farms and pepper farms, stop along the way to take a break in hammocks rest stop and try the local fruits like avocado, rambutan, durian…
Keep riding on the 14 high way, stop in Chu Se town for lunch, ride to Pleiku City to visit the “sea lake”- a volcano crater active million years ago. Stop in the green tea fields, the Pagoda nearby then ride to Kontum after a long day ride
Check in and relax
Dining out
Day 8: Kontum- Kham Duc town
Before we leave Kontum, there are many tourist attractive of Kontum to visit such as wooden Church and Orphanage House, play with the homeless children, then visit the Rong house- the community house of the Banar Hill Tribe with very thatched roof, the Bishop Office and the museum, then back on the Ho Chi Minh road again, stop-over in Dakto- Tan Canh battle fields victory monument, military airport, the Charlie Hill and its stories, heading to the Indochine junction, ride on the new Ho Chi Minh road ( the Ho Chi Minh trail in Vietnam War), stop over in untouched villages of different Hill Tribe groups like: Sedang; Gie Trieng; Chu Ru; J’rai, H’re… trying to across the narrow suspension wooden bridge which is built by local people, enjoy the gorgeous mountains, learn about the “sticky trees” which is used as natural ingredient to make incense sticks, standing on the top of Ngoc Linh mountains (2500m above the sea level) to see the different weather between East and West of Truong Son mountain ranges.
Keep riding on the Ho Chi Minh road, stop in Dak Ga stream for a swim in a hot day, back on the bike, ride to Kham Duc, a small town in the middle of jungle on Ho Chi Minh trail to stay over night
Check in
Dinner at the hotel
Day 9: Kham Duc- Hoi An
The last day ride on the mountain roads before we reach the coast, we are still ride on the Ho Chi Minh roads, still enjoy the stunning view of tropical rain forest, still see the thunder water falls along the roads, still see the different hill tribe group living and untouched villages, still jump to water and across the stop-breathing bridges, and pineapple farms where you can try the sweet pineapples and banana, learn about the tropical herbs that the local people try to sell along the way, then ride along the river to Hoi An, you will see how is the local people make rice papers, noodles, incense sticks, harvesting the rice on the rice fields or peanuts…
Hoi An welcome
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Relax and free night
Day 10: Hoi An Ancient City tour
An easy day for sightseeing tour to visit the ancient town of Hoi An, visit many ancient wooden houses, lantern street, then we will go to Thanh Ha pottery making village, herbal village- Tra Que, carpenter village- Kim Bong and local market and street foods tour.
