NORTHWEST VIETNAM 10 DAYS MOTORBIKE TOUR

10 days, 9 nights – Northwest Vietnam 10 days motorbike tour.

Booking code of Northwest Vietnam 10 Days Motorbike Tour: NW1001

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Day 1: Hanoi – Hang Kia. ~200 km, ~7 h.

Today is the first day of this Northwest Vietnam 10 days motorbike tour. Before starting to ride, we will have a short briefing to let you know about the rules. In addition, the guide will show you how to understand him by his body language. We start around 9.30am after the rush hour.

Ride to the direction of the West. We pass through Hoa Binh town, then along the Laotian border on our left and Da (Black) river on our right. We leave the river in the mountainous cirque of Mai Chau to go up until the plateau of Mai Chau.

Multiple horizons in a range of green and grey. Before the plateau, we turn right toward the border until the H’mong village of Hang Kia, which accommodates us for the night.

Day 2: Hang Kia – Son La. ~200 km, ~8 h.

On good road looking high over distant mountains, we head up into a forested region populated by H’mong people before descending into a mountainous tea-growing region. Soon after we follow a long valley floor covered in a sea of rice surrounded by Black Thai villages all the way to Son La with its bargain-filled market. Sleep in a hotel.

Offroad Vietnam Motorbike Adventures - Northwest Vietnam 10 Days Motorbike Tour via a high mountain track in Son La.

Day 3: Son La – Lai Chau. ~200 km, ~8 h.

There are 15 passes in total. In general, you ride on very nice roads with a stunning landscape. Probably the most beautiful journey of the whole trip even the road is in poor condition. Sleep in Lan Anh Hotel.

Day 4: Muong Lay (Boating).

After breakfast, we take the boat from Muong Lay to Nam Ma village (40 km from Lai Chau ~2h) with a stopover at Pa Po waterfall (20 km from Muong Lay ~1h). Such a beautiful waterfall! Arrive in Nam Ma, walk to Hoi Ca village (White Thai people), and then have lunch in our captain’s house. In reality, this region is totally ignored by mass tourism and the welcome is exceptional. After lunch, boating upstream back to Muong Lay in 3 hours.

Day 5: Muong LayLai Chau. ~150 km, ~7 h.

In general, this is the most demanding and remote section of the drive which takes us upstream along the left side of a Black River tributary through the forest on a bumpy dirt road past isolated pockets of Tay, Thai, H’mong and Man peoples before breaching a pass to enter the Tam Duong plain, which is covered in shark’s teeth-like limestone karts. We would visit a Mang village near Sin Ho, the guide will buy some food to give to the head of the village, and he later distributes our donations to the villagers. We stay in a hotel.

Offroad Vietnam Motorbike Adventures - Northwest Vietnam 10 days motorbike tour via Sapa.

Day 6: Lai Chau – Sapa. ~100 km, ~5 h.

Tam Duong market in the morning. There are colourful Montagnard groups living in Tam Duong: Black H’mong and Dzao. ~10am: beautiful ride at a slow pace on the bumpy road to Sapa. We will have a big breakfast because there is nothing to eat on the way, just ourselves with the wildness. We stay O/N in Cat Cat Hotel.

Day 7: Sapa – Bac Ha. ~120 km, ~4 h.

The ride from Sapa to Bac Ha takes ~4 hours, down from Sapa to Lao Cai (34 km) and then up to Bac Ha (70 km) with a stunning landscape. We check in a hotel before having lunch. In the afternoon, we trek to Lung Phinh village of Flower H’mong people. Stay overnight in Bac Ha.

Day 8: Bac Ha – Than Uyen. ~170 km, ~7 h.

In fact, the ride from Bac Ha to Than Uyen is quite wild and bumpy. It’s probably one of the best riding days on this Northwest Vietnam 10 days motorbike tour. We head up Hoang Lien Son range to Than Uyen, a small town on the top of the range.

Day 9: Than Uyen – Nghia Lo. ~150 km, ~6 h.

Today is another great riding day on this motorbike adventure.

In general, the road is wild and bumpy. Between Sapa and Hanoi, we will find an important mountainous massif, almost as high as the Fansipan: the Mu Cang Chai. From the top, we have one of the most beautiful views of Northern Vietnam. Nghia Lo is a small town populated mostly by Thai and Viet people.

Offroad Vietnam Motorbike Adventures - Northwest Vietnam 10 days motorbike tour via Nghia Lo.

Day 10: Nghia Lo – Hanoi. ~180 km, ~6 h. End of Northwest Vietnam 10 Days Motorbike Tour.

Ride on the country road through Son Tay to Hanoi in ~6 hours.

We try to arrive in Hanoi before 5pm to avoid rush hours. Otherwise, you should be good with city traffic from the experience you got over the last days.

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