Day 1: Saigon Arrival.
Welcome to Ho Chi Minh City, often known as "The Fearl of Far East City - Saigon." Enjoy an orientation walk through the busy streets of Saigon as you make your way to the hotel after arriving late in the morning. Take the remainder of the day to relax, get over your jet lag, and go around the city on your own. Savor the welcome supper at one of the best restaurants in town in the evening.
Summary:
Activity: Transferring and meeting group
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: 

Day 2: Hochiminh – Cuchi Tunnel – Transfer to Cai Be
After being picked up at your hotel, you will ride bikes for an hour to get to Saigon's suburbs. Ride on single-track trails through a village where Cu Chi farmers go about their everyday lives, gathering rubber latex and manufacturing bamboo furniture and baskets. There will also be large rice-paper workshops run by rural families. From 1965 until 1975, this territory served the Viet Cong not only as a hiding place but also as a fighting and living region throughout the Vietnam War. After touring the tunnel, have a picnic lunch before continuing to Cai Be Town. When we get there, we start riding our bikes to a different local ferry, which will take us across the Mekong River and to an eco-guest home on the island. We work with the host to prepare some regional cuisine in the evening. Savor our meal.spending the night on the island.
Summary:
Cycling distance: 40 – 75 km
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Homestay

Day 3: Cai Be Cycling - Tra Vinh
After having breakfast at the hotel, we prepare our bikes for the ferry, take a ferryboat across the Mekong River, and ride our bikes to Mo Cay. During the Vietnam War, the city was thought to be the home of communists, therefore we use our time to explore it.After that, we'll continue riding on pathways and tracks through villages until we reach Tra Vinh, a Khmer town. There, we'll see the oldest Ang pagoda and the historically significant Ba Om Pond. riding a bicycle through Ben Tre's Kingdom of Coconut. Ride a bicycle to the hotel in Tra Vinh after taking a small ferry across the vast Mekong River.
Summary:
Cycling distance: 40 – 60 km
Meals:Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel

Day 4: Tra Vinh Cycling  to Can Tho
Eat a substantial breakfast at the hotel. Every cycling day begins with a ride across seemingly endless rice paddies. You have the opportunity to learn why Vietnam is Thailand's second-largest rice exporter. After that, you will go through traditional Khmer villages, where the majority of the population continues to live according to their own customs. In Khmer communities in Vietnam, teath huts are still widely utilized and linked with people. Here, visiting some vibrant Khmer Buddhist temples, our bicycle guides will explain the key distinctions between two schools of Buddhism. Theravada is one, and Mahayana is the other. In the afternoon, carry on your cycling journey by visiting tropical fruit orchards and mingling with the bikers on orange, longan, and pomelo islands. The afternoon ride offers the chance to spend more time on the ferry across the crooked tiny river and out to the outskirts of the city of Can Tho. You can have a beverage and unwind at the hotel after a 30-minute transfer.
Summary:
Cycling distance: 45 – 82 km
Meals:Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel

Day 5: Can Tho – Long Xuyen
An early start as you cruise the Hau River to the largest floating market in Vietnam, Cai Rang, where a plethora of wooden boats of various sizes assemble to offer their wares. You can get up close and personal with these floating vendors by navigating around them in your little boat, which is ideal for taking pictures and purchasing produce for yourself. Then it's back to the bikes, where you pedal past pleasant faces and vibrant greenery. The roads get narrower and there is less traffic as you move deeper into the delta. Take in the scenery as you ride by countless cottage industries, lumberjacks, shredders of coconuts, little docks where rice is loaded and unloaded, and little, lively markets. In the afternoon, you get to enjoy a leisurely ride along the Mekong through one of the most picturesque sections of the delta, passing by fish farms and traditional towns, over little bridges and feeling more like you are in the countryside. Long xuyen arrived. at the evening at Long Xuyen.
Summary:
Cycling distance: 45 – 65 km
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel

Day 6: Long Xuyen  – Floating Market – Cycling to Chau Doc
The view today is entirely different from what it was yesterday. We start riding after making a quick changeover to Tri Ton. As you ride nearer Chau Doc, the terrain starts to gradually undulate and mountains start to loom. The Thot not trees suggest that the area is becoming closer to Cambodia, and the locals speak Vietnamese as a second language. You will ride a bicycle to the Vietnamese killing fields this afternoon, located in Ba Chuc. Here, nearly 3,000 Vietnamese people were slaughtered in 1978 by Polpot's regime. The route circles back to Chau Doc from Ba Chuc along the border, or depending on the state of the roads, retraces the path back to Tri Ton and then rides the remaining distance to Chau Doc along amazing rural roads. If the weather permits, those with excess energy can ascend Sam Mountain in time for sunset!Dinner and overnight stay in Chau Doc.
Summary:
Cycling distance: 45 – 80 km
Meals:Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel

Day 7: Chau Doc– Cycling to Ha Tien
Get an early start once more and take a boat to visit the spectacular riverbank market, complete with frenetic activity and an explosion of colors, noises, and scents. The boat travels on to an ethnic Cham town with its renowned Mubarak Mosque, passing through fish farm communities where vast amounts of fish are raised in cages beneath floating homes. You can see women weaving here as well, utilizing age-old techniques. After that, you cycle along a nice route while admiring tall limestone structures in the distance, vivid green rice fields, and several bridges. As you approach Cambodia, there are lots of sights to see along the route, including the many architectural designs of ethnic Khmer dwellings and the plethora of vibrant Khmer pagodas. When you go to Ha Tien in the late afternoon, it feels like it has been neglected but yet has a certain allure with its closed terraces, deteriorating colonial buildings, and mats of seafood drying in the sun. 
Summary:
Cycling distance: 40 – 70 km
Meals:Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel

Day 8: Ha Tien – Rach Gia
After a filling breakfast at the hotel, we leave the city on our shuttle bus to avoid the heavy traffic. When we get to the cycling spot, we start our ride by going over the To Chau bridge, which is where the river and the sea meet, and heading into town.
There are numerous limestone mountains to be seen the route to Rach Gia, which is located on the southern shore.We'll be riding our bikes to Hon Chong, a holy pagoda and destination of Buddhist pilgrimage.We'll eat lunch atop a hill with a view of the sea there. riding a beautiful road to Rach Gia Town, crossing by numerous mountains made of limestone.
Summary:
Cycling distance: 40 – 70 km
Meals:Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel

Day  09: Rach Gia -  U Minh – Ca Mau
We are cycling on back roads through many beautiful scenery and charming villages today, making it another exciting cycling day in our journey.After a filling breakfast, we grab our bikes from the hotel and ride for fifteen kilometers through the Cajuput Forest on single tracks and back roads. After that, we veer off the picturesque coast path and take a ferry to Tac Cau.
Riding along the riverbank, we pass small Vietnamese, Chinese, and Khmer communities. Locals use boats as their primary mode of transportation; you can observe them traveling in various directions in freight boats, water taxis, and family-oriented high-speed vessels with long-tail engines. Eat lunch at a nearby restaurant.
After lunch, we saddle horses and ride down a nice trail that passes through undeveloped communities and a little jungle. In particular, we ride down lengthy, isolated rivers' actual back roads and witness numerous stilt homes, timber mills, and mangrove forests.Leave the paved road that leads to the city of Ca Mau.
Summary:
Cycling distance: 40 – 80 km
Meals:Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel

Day 10: Ca Mau –Bac Lieu
It's a wonderful and exhausting day for us to see the majority of the everyday activities of the people living in the unspoiled countryside, particularly how they make a living.
The rural districts of Ca Mau have stunning countryside. Farmers tending to cows and buffaloes on farms are visible. There are lots of little shelters for ducks, cows, buffaloes, and us to stop and take pictures along the back roads in the country. This is due to their rapid speed and ability to navigate shallow water rivers and canals. Before arriving in Ganh Hao for lunch, we pedal by mangrove forests, shrimp farms, and salt fields. You get the opportunity to witness everyday life in the places where the waterway is a frequent mode of transportation this afternoon; small, long composite boats with long-tailed motors are almost commonplace.
Summary:
Cycling distance: 40 – 85 km
Meals:Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel

Day 11: Bac Lieu – Soc Trang
Today is a stark contrast to yesterday as we ride past peaceful towns and busy riverbank markets before arriving at peaceful back roads that are closed to the sea.
Up till you arrive at Vinh Chau town, you will get to know the kind people of the rural villages and their relaxed way of life. Having lunch in the city.
We travel on through gently rolling farmland with vast farms of shrimp and fish as well as uninhabited, isolated towns, arriving at Bat Pogoda where hundreds of bats are suspended from trees and pagodas. Upon our visit to the Bat Pagoda, we proceed to Soc Trang City by bicycle.
Summary:
Cycling distance: 50 – 80 km
Meals:Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel

Day 12: Soc Trang – Con Dao
After breakfast, we board our shuttle bus and travel to Ferry in order to catch the morning Hydrofoil to Con Dao Island.
After traveling at a rapid speed for ninety minutes, we reach Cao Dao Island.Meet our assistance car and head to the hotel to unwind.
Summary:
Cycling distance: No
Meals:Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel

Day 13: Con Dao Exploring
It's time for us to enjoy watching the sunrise from the horizon, with fresh air and wind coming in from the ocean. after a good breakfast. We are going to tour the Con Dao Museum, Phu Hai Prison, the Tiger Cage, and Hang Duong Cemetery, which will help us understand some of the Vietnamese revolutionaries' resistance struggle. Before heading back to the resort, we also go to the Madam Phi Yen Temple. You are free to swim at Dat Doc Beach or Lo Voi Cape, two stunning, remote beaches, in the leisure afternoon.
Summary:
Activities; visiting an island's historical relic
Meals:Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel

Day  14: Con Dao  - Hochiminh city
After breakfast at the resort, we are free to check out and head to the airport in Con Dao to catch our aircraft to Ho Chi Minh City.
Summary:
Activities: Transferring
Meals:Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel

Day 15: Hochiminh on ward
After eating breakfast at the hotel, we head to Tan San Nhat International Airport to either continue our journey or return to your lovely homes. We're going to stop providing our services. We appreciate you joining us on a lifetime riding adventure in Vietnam.
Summary:
Activity: Transferring
Accommodation: No
Meals:B/

Tour included in:
Bicycling guide who speaks English (other languages by request).
The lodging is based on two or three people sharing.
Meal information (14 breakfasts, 14 lunches, and 14 dinners) are included in itineraries.
Transportation and A/C transfer.
Bus or van assistance is provided during cycling hours.
Truck supported for groups larger than six.
Trek mountain bikes equipped with helmets and disc brakes.
Boat ride through the Chau Doc Floating Market and Cai Rang.
excursions for sightseeing according to the itineraries.
Bike tour pump, tools, tubes, and extra bikes.
Just one hydrofoil Con Dao - Soc Trang ticket.
From Con Dao to Hochiminh City, there is just one domestic flight.
first aid package.
Box of cold water, little towel.
Drinkable mineral water.
Fruit and a snack on days when you cycle.

Tour excluded in:
International airfare
Travel insurance
Items of personal nature
Alcoholic beverages and soft drinks in meals
Mineral water beyond that supplied
Optional excursions
Additional transport required due to any emergency situation
Personal expenses such as telephone, laundry bills.
Visa fee
Departure  tax
Tip for team and guide

Availability
Tours and services may not be available on public holidays, or may be available at an additional surcharge.

Pick-up location
Most of our trips begin from our bike garage (both private and group tours), so transportation from your hotel to our bike shop (or v.v) is not included in the quote. We can arrange the service (with extra charge), and reservation needs to be made in advance.

Itinerary
Occasionally our tour itineraries are updated during the year to incorporate improvements stemming from past travelers’ comments and our own research. The information given in this itinerary may be slightly different to that in the service proposal. It’s very important that you print and review a final copy of your itinerary prior to travel. If you have any queries, please contact us.

Please note that while we operate successful cycling holidays in Vietnam throughout the year, some changes may occur in our itineraries due to inclement weather and common seasonal changes to timetables and transport routes. This can happen with little notice so please be prepared for modifications to the route. The order and timing of included activities in each location may also vary from time to time.

Price
Negotiating prices is a common practice in Vietnam, particularly in open-air markets, street shops, and rural areas. However, we are not good at bargaining and do not prefer this practice. Instead, we focus our time and efforts on tour arrangements, and our prices are fixed.

Safety
Wearing a helmet is compulsory on all our biking adventures. Our tour guide often carry first aid kit while riding. Please follow your guide while biking, and much attention is required while you cross streets.

Difficulty levels
To assist you visualize how our bike trip is difficult, we have graded our Vietnam cycling tours into three categories, easy, moderate, and challenging. We group many factors into consideration into this grading, including distant covered, terrain, altitude, and vehicle support.

Easy
Involves cycling for up to two to three hours a day at easy pace and usually, less than 3 days in duration. The cycling distances is around 15 – 30 km per day. There are likely to be no steep and sustained descents as well as demand for technical riding. We will normally ride on flat roads. Suitable for bikers who enjoy occasional weekend riding on trails at home. Push bikes are sometimes used for these itineraries.

Moderate
Involves biking for up to six hours a day at a steady pace and are usually between three to five days in duration. The cycling distance is about 35 – 55 km per day. Sometimes it can be long flat rides or medium ride with few up and downhill climbs. The support vehicle will not always be available. We will need a good level of fitness. We use either mountain bikes or road bikes for these itineraries.

Challenging
Involves biking in mountainous areas with big climbs for up to seven or eight hours a day and usually more than a week in duration. Cycling distance is about 60 – 80 km per day. There will be steep and sustained ascents and descents. The support vehicle will not always be available. These trips will provide a real sustained workout even for fit and experienced mountain bikers.

Accommodation
When cycling we mostly stay in small hotel, guesthouse or homestay. Some are more basic than others! Bear in mind that some of the places we overnight in are not on the standard tourist trail. In larger cities and towns, our hotels are generally more western style and are three or four star hotels (price option).

Camping is not available on cycling tours in Vietnam unless it is required and this should be booked months in advance. Camping is only available in a limited number of places such as Cat Ba island beach, Cuc Phuong national park…Please see the details on the quote.

Tour guide
Most of our tour guides speak English. Some other speak French. Few speak other language such as German, Russian, Spanish. All our guides have great knowledge of history, local culture, and religions of the area where you are cycling. Our guides have been trained in this field and is fully licensed in tour guiding.

Bike mechanic
We arrange a bike mechanic only for large groups or when it is required (with surcharge). When there is no mechanic, our guide will take care of problem which may occur during the bike ride.

Transportation
Depending on the nature of the tour, our cycle journeys will be accompanied by an air-conditioned car/minibus cover the larger overland sections. We often use mini bus or bus for transfer and back up (guided tours).
1 – 2 travelers: we use minivan to support and carry bikes. Sometimes we use a car for passengers and a truck for transport of the bikes.
3 – 6 people: we use one minivan for passengers and one truck for the bikes.
7 – 12 people: we use one bus (coach) for passengers and one truck for the bikes.
We provide bike rental and truck for self-guided bike tours.

We sometimes use local push-bikes (single-speed bicycles) where possible or when it is required. In this case, our cars will be arranged as follows.
1 – 2 passengers (with a tour guide): 4 seat car.
3 – 6 passengers (with a tour guide): 15/16 seat minivan.
7 – 12 passengers (with a tour guide): 29 seat coach/bus.

Bikes repairs
Basic spares and tools kit are generally carried by our guide or bike mechanic or on the support vehicle, although we can not guarantee having spares for every conceivable problem.

Food and drinks
All the meals which, are mentioned in itinerary (B=Breakfast; L=Lunch; D=Dinner), are included in the tour price. Most of meals are Vietnamese local food. Vegetarians are certainly welcome and are always accommodated, please let us know of any dietary concerns at time of booking. Beverage and alcoholic drinks are not included at mealtime or in restaurants.

Snacks and water
When we transfer, ride by minibus (no cycling day), our bottled waters are always available for you in the car/van. When we have cycling days, we will offer cold water (summer) plus fresh tropical fruits, soft drinks are also available in the car/van. Please take a look at the “Inclusions” section on our our service proposal to see whether the service is included in the price. Please note drinks are not included at mealtime or in restaurant.

Packing
Comfortable lightweight clothing in natural fabrics such as cotton is most suitable for traveling in Vietnam. The dress code is fairly casual as in most parts of the tropics but it is advisable to cover arms and legs in the evenings against biting insects. A lightweight raincoat is a good idea in the rainy season. During the winter months warm clothing is needed for visiting the north of Vietnam. Visitors should not wear shorts, short skirts or other skimpy clothing when visiting religious buildings such as pagoda, temple and shoes should be removed before entering a private home.
What you take will naturally depend upon where you are traveling and the style of journey you are undertaking, and it can often be difficult to decide what to pack. Nevertheless, the following should act as a useful checklist of essential items worth thinking about taking.

Clothing
2 pairs of riding shorts
2 riding jerseys (quick-dry)
2 pairs of quick dry socks for cycling
Comfortable shoes for biking and walking
Riding gloves
2-3 t-shirts or casual shirts
Trousers or jeans
1-2 pairs of casual socks for non-cycling activities
3-5 sets of underwear (quick-dry)
Cool-weather jacket or rain jacket
Extra layers and gloves for cooler season or climate (thin, thermal, water-wicking)
Bathing suit
Sandals

Toiletries
Tooth brush and tooth paste
Razor
Hair brush
Shampoo
Deodorant
Hand sanitizer

Miscellaneous
Passport, wallet and ID
Health insurance card
Travel insurance card
Cash and/or credit cards
Camera (with spare battery)
Plastic bags (for dirty laundry, wet clothes)
Electronic chargers (for camera, e-reader, cell phone)
Adaptors or convertors

Tipping
Tipping for good services is always appreciated. It is customary, though not compulsory, to tip tour guides and drivers at the end of the tour. Hotels and station porters should also be tipped a small amount for.
We recommend about 4-6 USD/traveler/day for the tour guide, about 2-3 USD/traveler/day for the driver (or the mechanic). Of course you are free to tip more or less as you see fit, depending on your perception of service quality, the length and the difficulty of your trip.

Community
Prior to our tours, we contact and work with local community leaders to make sure we are welcome and in a manner that minimizes negative social and cultural impacts. We visit local development and community projects specific to the region, encouraging customers to donate and assist such a projects in appropriate and sustainable manner.
Where make sure that where and whenever possible our tours positively benefit the local community. We stayed at locally owned accommodation and visit cottage industries for local handicraft souvenir, generating income for local business. We often employ, hire support team such as local guide, motor-taxi drivers, cook assistants on all trips to ensure that the local community benefit not only short term but with increased employment opportunities for the future.

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