•The cost: please contact us : info@vietnamadventurecycling.com
•Countries visited:Vietnam-Cambodia
•Total cycling distance:Approx 825 km
Summary : Here the cycling in Vietnam and cycling in Angkor Wat. The trip will start in Ho Chi Minh the biggest city in Vietnam and finish in Angkor Wat ,Cambodia. We cycle approximately 825 km along the concrete road ,country road ,tarmac road some day ,deeper and closer the Local living life.local ferry crossing and cruising to visit the biggest floating market in the Mekong river . Then We cross inland crossing point into Cambodia,The kingdom of Wonder.The border crossing at Ha Tien is quite and easy to cross. here is your opportunity to visit the Capital of Cambodia, PhnomPenh ,the bustling city and the Angkor ruins complex on the back road.
Do this cycling trip will help you to understand and experience the real local living life in Vietnam ,Cambodia and especially you will have a chance to learn more about the Angkor Wat. The starting point can be in Angkor Wat suit to some who traveling in Cambodia first.
TOUR INFOMATION | |
Tour cost | please contact us : info@vietnamadventurecycling.com Single room supplement: USD 420 |
Bike rental | Usd 140 |
Departure Dates | Guaranteed departures every day with a minimum group of 2 adults. |
Total Distance | 825 kilometers |
No., of cycling days | 12 days |
Tour meets | SAI GON |
Tour End | SIEM RIEP |
Road Surface | This tour mostly follows asphalt roads, and one dirt road passing the countryside and the rice field. The back road along the Mekong river and village is small but good enough for cycling, less busy. A little bit sandy |
Support | All buses with A/C and experienced Driver, one 16 seats regarding group size of less 6; one 25 seats of less 12 or two 16 seats regarding group size of less 12; and one 25 seats plus a luggage van for group size of up to 24. |
Group Size | Minimum 2. Maximum 15. |
Biking guide | Experienced English speaking-biking guides with enthusiastic, friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. Biking guides are first aid qualified and can maintain bikes. Their role is to deliver a safe and enjoyable tour to the clients, they manage the group, co-ordinate the driver and support vehicle, buy snacks and fruit along the way, look out for clients needs. They are cultural guides as well as pure biking… |
Accommodation | Hotels range from standard to superior classes, 3 star hotel (big room with partition off) in some remote areas. |
Food | Included (B = Breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Dinner). |
Entrance fees | Included |
Boat & ferry | Included |
Snacks, fresh fruits, water, wet towels | Provided daily cycling |
Safety | Our people take the best cares & safety for your trip.The first aid kits are provided |
Photo taking | You can stop wherever you want for 'Kodak moment'! |
Cycling pace | Are you a beginner or professional biker? we all care with our best efforts to make your trip superb. Enjoy your riding speed from 10km per hour up to as many more as you can. |
Climate | Rainy season from May to end of October, dry season is the rest of the year; we bike all year round while raincoat is standby in the rain season. |
What to bring | Sun Block , Wide brim hat, Camera + Film, Comfortable shoes, Rain Gear , Warm clothes in winter, Original Passport, Bike Helmet ( compulsory ), Small backpack , Shoes and shorts for cycling ,Sunglasses , Gloves , Professional Pedal ,Insect repellent ,Wide brim hat ,Bike water bottle (if you don't want to use Indochina Bike Tours’bottle) |
What included | English – biking – speaking guide, Accommodation as itinerary, Food as itinerary (B = Breakfast; L = Lunch; D = Dinner) (depending on condition of local area, we have picnic for lunch sometimes), Land transport as itinerary (one 16seats van to carry bike & biker), Train ticket Day 11, Good bikes rental for tour, Water, snacks, fresh fruits, cool towel for cycling days, First aids care and mechanic for bike, All entrance fees; ferry tickets and boat trips. |
What is not included | Travel insurance,Tip (recommend 5 usd/day/person) personal expenses, alcoholic drinks, flight ticket to/from Vietnam ,Cambodia, Lao visa and what is not mentioned as above itinerary |
Notice: We can arrange additional customized trips for you if the above itinerary does not match your expectations.
Please advise us of your passport details for visa processing at least 15 days working days in advance. The tour price does not include personal insurance so we highly you to take your own insurance before your departure for our cycling trip covering the cost of medical evacuation by air. And you will need a passport valid for six month and appropriate visas to enter our countries. |
Day 1: HO CHI MINH- WELCOM TO VIETNAM
Vietnam Adventure Cycling guide will be at the airport to pick you up and transfer to the hotel for checking in.free and leisure . In the afternoon ,we will spend a bit time for bike fiting make sure everything ok with all of you! Welcome dinner and our guide will briefing some basic information about your cycling adventure trip. Overnight in Ho Chi Minh.
Activities:
• no biking.
• Meals: Dinner
Day 2: SAIGON-CAIBE
After breakfast at the hotel then transfer out of Sai gon for Mekong Delta.then we’ll take back roads to Cai be,where we’ll board a boat to An Binh island.we will spend some time to visiting artisans;we will watch coconut candy making,rice paper making and popcorn/pop rice making.then,we will enjoy luch on the island before continuing to our local home stay run by a lovely retire couple ,MR.&MRS BAY.The Bay’s live in a typical mekong vietnamese house,with airy rooms and an outdoor kitchen.the rest of the afternoon you’re free to bike around the home stay. Diner at the home stay.
Activities:
• 40 km biking.
• Meals: breakfast , Lunch, Dinner
Day 3: CAI BE-TRA VINH
You could wake up early morning to see children rush to school and and morning activies not only in land but also on water. After breakfast then start biking to Mo cai market for lunch then transfer by van to Tan Trung dist. we star biking agian to Travinh The road for cycling is almost single tract under the shade of coconute trees.it is a beautiful country road with local village, taking ferry named Do Ngang crossing the Mekong delta ( Song Tien River ) that is the border of Ben Tre province and Travinh province then add 7 km ride to tra Vinh Town.Over night in Travinh.
Activities:
• 90km biking.
• Meals: breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 4: TRA VINH- CAN THO
After breakfast at the hotel, we start our cycling day from the hotel to khmer museum to learn more about the culture and khmer people in Mekong. You bike along narrow country lanes, easy dirt tracks and trails. This is biking at its most glorious-via the tiny concrete road deeper to middle of the rice fields, witness colorful life along the riverside, pedal pass picturesque delta homes, pause to chat with welcoming villagers, clack across innumerable wooden bridges. Cross narrow canals on a local sampan, afterthat we cycling in the fruite orchard island after we take ferry get on the island and get off the island . There will be plenty of time to explore side tracks and trails so we will get on the Van and transfer to Can Tho city ,the capital of southwest of vietnam. Overnight in local hotel in Can Tho
Activities:
• 80km biking.
• Meals: breakfast , Lunch, Dinner
Day 5: CAN THO - LONG XUYEN
After a very early breakfast, you will take a boat trip to the famous Cairang floating market before riding on a narrow paved road market to Phong dien. The route weaves through morning market bustle along the banks of the very busy river. Absorb the sights of endless cottage industries, timber merchants, coconut shredders, small docks loading/unloading rice, and tiny vibrant markets. You will continue by bike on the narrow Concrete to the bird sanctuary, and a few km more along a tiny road leading upstream towards to the main road. The ride ends with a short transfer to hotel in Long Xuyen
Activities:
• 90km biking.
• Meals: breakfast , Lunch, Dinner
Day 6: LONG XUYEN - CHAU DOC
Once more, the scenery is completely different. After a short transfer to Triton, the cycling starts to gently undulate and mountains begin to loom as you ride closer and closer to Chaudoc. The presence of Thotnot trees indicates the growing proximity to Cambodia and the local people speak Vietnamese as their second language. This afternoon you will cycle to the killing fields of Vietnam at Bachuc, where Polpot’s regime massacred over 3,000 Vietnamese in 1978. The route loops round to Chaudoc from Bachuc along the border, or re-trace back to triton (depending on road conditions) and ride the rest of the way to Chaudoc along incredible country roads. Those with energy to spare can climb Sam Mountain for sunset! Dinner and overnight in hotel
Activities:
• 50km biking.
• Meals: breakfast , Lunch, Dinner
Day 7:CHAU DOC- HATIEN
After having breakfast at the hotel. We leave for the floating houses on upper Mekong river by boat where we can see plenty of catfishes, red snappers… breeding under right their houses. What is an amazing life! Then keep boating to visit the Cham village with about 12.000 people who those are weaving sarongs, hats…by hands as keeping their ancestral tradition. Walk to the mosques that Muslims pray and teach Cham kids in Arabic for a while. Cruising back to the Van for cycling to Ha Tien.
Activities:
• 50-70 km biking.
• Meals: breakfast , Lunch, Dinner.
Day 8: HA TIEN- KAMPOT(Farewell Vietnam, Hello Cambodia)
This morning you bid farewell to Vietnam as you cycle the short distance to the border crossing with Cambodia. Your introduction to Cambodia will be cycling along quiet coastal dirt roads passing through salt flats and small villages. Your first port of call will be the coastal resort of Kep which is now undergoing a revival after years of neglect. You will have lunch here and perhaps try the tasty seafood the area is renown for. After lunch you spin the final 35km to Kampot. The town has an undeniable charm, being a sleepy, quaint place with a relaxed ambience and friendly locals, the streets are quiet and there is a lot of French colonial and Chinese influenced architecture still surviving, and it all that wasn’t enough there is a wonderful riverfront where you will experience possibly the most beautiful sunset in Cambodia as the sun slips down behind the nearby mountains…
Activities:
• 65km biking.
• Meals: Breafast, Lunch, Dinner
Day9: KAMPOT -TAKEO
As you leave Kampot you cycle through some inspiring limestone karst scenery, picturesque villages including some ethnic Cham settlements, and endless rice fields. Takeo does not have a lot to boast about being a small provincial capital made up of many local government department buildings. However, around the market area there are some old colonial villas in differing states, and the waterfront promenade makes for a pleasant late afternoon sunset stroll. A real taste of small-town Cambodia well off the tourist trail!
Activities:
• 85km biking.
• Meals: Breafast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 10:TAKEO-PHNOMPENH
After breakfast this morning you have the opportunity to visit a local orphanage managed by ‘New Futures’. Here you will learn more about the great educational work they are doing in the surrounding poor villages, and how Asia Adventures is working together with them through its 'Pedal2Empower' cycle donation project. As you leave Takeo you spin north passing through more endless rice paddies. After some time you turn off the main road to visit Tonle Bati, a riverside location where you have time to explore the small, yet picturesque Angkorian temples of Ta Prohm and Yeay Peau. You will then avoid the ‘main’ road as much as possible and upon reaching the outskirts of Phnom Penh you will stop-off at the 'Killing Fields'. This is where Khmer Rouge prisoners were forcibly marched from the Toul Sleng prison in the city centre and then executed; it is now a memorial site located in a beautiful tranquil setting. After some contemplation you can either negotiate the rush-hour traffic into the heart of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital city, or opt for taking the support vehicle.
Activities:
• 85km biking.
• Meals: Breafast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 11: PHNOMPENH- CITY TOUR
On your first morning in charming Phnom Penh you will may be pleased to discover that today it is someone else’s turn to do the pedalling as you are treated to a fun cyclo tour, a traditional mode of transport. Your first stop will be the terracotta red National Museum which offers a charming setting for a comprehensive collection of Khmer artefacts. After this you will visit the nearby Royal Palace, on the banks of the mighty Mekong river. Inside the Palace walls you will be treated to the Throne Hall, the Chan Chaya Pavilion, and the King’s residential quarters. You will then move onto the neighbouring Silver Pagoda, so named as it is claimed its floor is made up of over 4,000 silver tiles! After lunch it is back in the cyclos as you are pedalled through the streets of Phnom Penh to the Toul Sleng Genocide Museum (also known as S21), ironically a former school, located in a quiet Phnom Penh suburb, this was the infamous Khmer Rouge prison / torture centre. You will then visit the Russian Market an excellent place for picking up souvenirs.
Activities:
• cyclo tour
• Meals: Breafast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 12: PHNOMPENH- SIEMREAP
A short transfer to high speed boat station for getting on board to Siemreap. This boat trip takes 6 hours from Phnompenh. Today you will have an opportunity to own a collection of photos which is about ordinary life style of locals living on Tonle Sap. In rainy season, Tonle Sap Lake reaches 10,000 square Km and it\'s got only 6,000 square Km in dry season. Arrive in siemreap port get on the bike and cycling to the hotel in the afternoon. Overnight in siemreap
Activities:
• 85km biking.
• Meals: Breafast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 12: Exploring the Magnificent Angkor Temples by Bike
After breakfast at the hotel, The Cycling will start with a bit busy road before we heading to village cycling on shady bumpy road and follow the single trail inside the jungle to see the real life of the local people living around the temple , and the cycling trail will take you to the Angkor Thom( Bayon Temle), the multitude of serene and smiling stone faces on the many towers which jut out from the upper terrace and cluster around its central peak. sightseeing at the temple before get on the bike hit the road to another famous Temple, Ta Phrom, embraced by the roots of enormous fig trees and gigantic creepers. Spend an hour on visiting Ta Phrom. It was built in 12th century by the famous King Jayavarvan VII indicated to his mother.
Continue Cycling through small circuit passing Ta Keo temple before reaching to Angkor Wat, the temple complex in Cambodia and the largest religious monument in the world, The temple is at the top of the high classical style of Khmer architecture.It has become a symbol of Cambodia, appearing on its national flag, and it is the country's prime attraction for visitors
Activities:
• 40km biking.
• Meals: Breafast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 13: SIEM REAP- Banteay Srei Temple
Start the cycling trip to Banteay Srei In the early morning. Bike on beautiful rural road as you can see real countryside of Cambodia including; rice field, typical villages and pagoda. Arrive in Banteay Srei before lunch. Visit Banteay Srei temple known as women citadel (built in 967 A.D dedicated to Brahma). With the pink sandstone walls and the best carving of all, Banteay Srei has attracted many tourists when coming to Siem Reap. Continue biking to visit Kbal Spean, the River of Thousands Lingas. On the way back to Siem Reap city, make a stop to visit Landmine Museum of Mr Akira. Mr Ra is dedicated his life to clear the landmines in countryside of the country. Overnight in Siem Reap.
Activities:
• 80km biking.
• Meals: Breafast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 14: Siem Reap – Departure back home
Free until the time transfer to the airport for departure. End of trip