Offroad Motorcycle Tour North-west Vietnam – 6 Days

Day 1: Starting the offroad motorcycle tour from Hanoi to Mai Chau: 160 km – Homestay

The first day of this offroad motorcycle tour from Hanoi is an easy day. After tour briefing by our guide about: traffic, distances, sights … You will leave Hanoi around 9:30. Slowly escaping the noisy city, then stop for lunch somewhere on the way before you heading up the mountains with the beautiful windy back roads and small off roads. Settle at the home stay round 4:00 have beers while listening about the Thai’s cultures. Dinner’s served at the home stay.

70 km on roads, 90 km on back and small off roads

Day 2: Mai Chau – Phu Yen: 170 km – Hotel

As usual, you are leaving the home stay around 8:30, slowly riding through beautiful villages of Thai ethnic group before you enter in unbeaten tracks, somewhere we call untouched areas right after the valley of Mai Chau and the offroad motorcycle tour North Vietnam really starts. Throughout a lot of green tea plantations, corn, banana farms, meeting big smiles from local people… That will blow your minds away. River crossing by a small boat and continuing off roads to Phu Yen, home stay or hotel stay will be on your need.

40 km on roads, 60 – 80 km off roads, the rest is on back roads

Day 3: Phu Yen – Ngoc Chien: 180 km – Homestay

After having a hot breakfast made by local, We will continue the offroad motorcycle tour. Today’s ride is full of off-road riding/challenge. It’s approximately around 110 km. If you think it’s too long or too hard for you, we – the Vietnam Motorbike Tour Expert can also change to ride on a different route so that the challenge will be easier. We always have our back up plan for everyday to meet up your need, so don’t worry about that. Pass by a big hydro power station before you arrive in a beautiful special home stay. Why this home stay is special? ‘Cause there is a natural mineral hot spring right underneath the house. That will be a good treatment to help you to recover from a long day off roads. Dinner’s served at the home stay.

40 – 110 km off roads

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Day 4: Ngoc Chien – Mu Cang Chai – Sapa: 210 km – Homestay

Another beautiful day with a lot of stops for pictures, you will be through the best area in Vietnam where is very famous for rice terraces. Off roading up to high mountains where you think you get lost in paradise. Hundreds stops, thousands of pictures will be taken that what we guess. Heading up to peak of mountain (2000 meters above sea level) before we arrive at the home stay in Sapa around 4:00. Herbal bath in the hot tub, beers or walking around the village before the dinner is the good way to make this a highlight of this offroad motorcycle tour in North Vietnam.

50 – 70 km off roads, 30 km on back roads and the rest in on roads

Day 5: Sapa – Thac Ba lake: 230 km – Homestay

Long easy day, heading down from high mountains, following the twisty side roads to avoid the traffic,  just only stay on the main road 70 around 50 km and then all the back roads, small off roads to the beautiful home stay of White Dao minority locating right next to biggest man-made lake in Vietnam. Highlight for today is the boat trip around the lake where you can have beautiful sunset pictures if the weather is good. A big farewell party’s organized by the host with a lot of what we call Rice Wine.

50 km on main roads, the rest is on back and small off roads

Day 6: Thac Ba – Hanoi: 180 km 

The final day of this great 6 day offroad motorcycle tour Northwest Vietnam is an easy day with interesting ride, cruising back to Hanoi on the dyke of 2 rivers. Lunch will be at Viet Tri town or if you want to spend more time in Hanoi, we can leave the home stay earlier so you can have lunch in Hanoi before we drop you off at your hotel. Tour ended!

Note: 

+ Some first and last 15 km of this tour is a fun ride with local traffic, there is no other choices to ride off-road when we get closed to Hanoi

+ We can be flexible to make it easier or harder depending on your energy/weather… so please just let us know your expectation then we will design the own one for you!