Ho Chi Minh Trail Motorcycle Tour from Hanoi to Nha Trang – 10 Days

We start the Ho Chi Minh Trail motorbike tour and continue via small roads that lead into the mountains around Mai Chau, so we’ll take the chance to ride out to isolated Hmong, Dao, and Thai villages. We will take on the challenge of an old road built by the French army and spend the afternoon exploring nearby villages. It is a very relaxing motorbike tour in Vietnam today. Overnight in a Thai ethnicity stilt house in Mai Chau

Distance: Distance: 180 km, ~5 hours riding

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Our Vietnam motorbike tour continues on a small, spectacular, paved trail along the Ma river until Cam Thuy town, where we stop for lunch. Hit the Ho Chi Minh trail (now a newly built highway) to Tan Ky town, where we will spend the night in a hotel. Finish a long day motorcycle ride in Vietnam. 

Distance: Distance: 291 km, ~9 hours riding

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Continue the Vietnam motorcycle ride on Ho Chi Minh Highway until Pho Chau, where we stop to visit the HCM Trail victory monument, which is the real starting point of our HCM Trail ride.

Ride to Phong Nha – Ke Bang, the biggest and most beautiful cave in Vietnam and Indochina, is now a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site. The karst formation of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park has evolved since the Paleozoic (some 400 million years ago), and so is the oldest major karst area in Asia.

Subject to massive tectonic changes, the park’s karst landscape is extremely complex, with many geographic features of considerable significance. The vast area, extending to the border

of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, contains spectacular formations, including 65 km of caves and underground rivers. Today is enjoyable Vietnam motorbike tour.

Distance: Distance: 280 km, ~8 hours riding

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Our Vietnam motorbike touring continue with boating and exploring the World Heritage site of Phong Nha, where local civilians and military sheltered from incessant bombing during wartime. Then we ride down to the coastal town of Dong Hoi, which was heavily shelled by US warships during the war. At a hotel overlooking the beach, we can do some sunbathing by the beach. Enjoy the peaceful life in this area after a long Ho Chi Minh Trail motorcycle tour. Overnight in Dong Hoi.

Distance: Distance: 60 km, ~2 hours riding

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Today our Vietnam motorbike tour will strike south through foothills once sprayed heavily by Agent Orange towards the former DMZ. There is still much evidence of bombing on the mountainsides, and from time to time, we will see remnants of the original Trail. We take in the Vinh Moc tunnel, the famous Hien Luong Bridge (former demarcation line between North and South Vietnam), the Truong Son Cemetery, and Khe Sanh (former US Marine base). We had a great center Vietnam motorcycle tour today. Overnight in Khe Sanh.

Distance: Distance: 200 km, ~6 hours riding 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

In the morning, we continue our Ho Chi Minh Trail tours and head south over the Da Krong Bridge (built by the Cubans in 1973) into the infamous A Shau valley, an area of intense wartime activity. Passing Hamburger Hill and mountains still barren due to the extended effects of Agent Orange, we arrive at A Luoi, where there are many Bru Van hill tribe people. Then, cruising through green back country down the steep Me Oi Pass, we continue to the beautiful city of Hue, which lies along the banks of the Perfume River. It is a joyful motorcycle tour in central Vietnam. Overnight in Hue.

Distance: Distance: 180 km, ~7 hours riding

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

We continue the Vietnam motorbike tour with the Forbidden Citadel in the morning by car. Join the National Highway 1 and head up the Hai Van Pass (Cloudy Pass) before the World Heritage site of Hoi An, a major trading center in SE Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries. Today we have a great Vietnam motorbike tour on the mountain pass. Overnight in Hoi An.

Distance: Distance: 145 km, ~5 hours riding

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Today we have the whole morning to explore the old town of Hoi An. Afternoon at the Cua Dai beach, about 6km from the old town.

The former harbor town of the Champa people at the estuary of the Thu Bon river was an important Vietnamese trading center in the 16th and 17th centuries, where Chinese from various provinces as well as Japanese, Dutch, and Indians settled down. During this period of the China trade, the town was called Hai Pho (Seaside Town) in Vietnamese.

In 1999, the old town was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) as a well-preserved example of a Southeast Asian trading port of the 15th to 19th centuries, whose buildings display a unique blend of local and foreign influences.

Today, Hoi An is still a small city, but it attracts a fair number of tourists and is well established on the backpacker trail. Many visit the numerous art and craft shops and tailors, who produce made-to-measure clothes for a fraction of the western price. Today is a relaxing Vietnam motorbike tour.

After another long day of motorbike tour in Vietnam, We join the National Highway 1 and head down the beautiful coastal line of Vietnam until Quy Nhon. Traffic is somewhat easier to handle than in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Overnight in a beachfront hotel. Today is one of our long motorcycle rides Ho Chi Minh trail, but We gave a great Vietnam motorbike tour on the coast today.

Distance: 170km

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Another beautiful Vietnam motorcycle tour filled up with beautiful coastline views. After lunch, we will say goodbye, and our guide will fly back to Hanoi from Nha Trang to finish the unforgettable motorbike tours.

Distance: 200 km, ~6 hours riding

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

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