Brief Itinerary
Day 1: Hanoi-Drive/bike to Mai Chau
Day 2: Mai Chau: A full day of hike & bike
Day 3: Mai Chau-Cycling to Cuc Phuong National Park-Drive to Ninh Binh
Day 4: Ninh Binh: A full day cycling tour
Day 5: Ninh Binh-Cycle to visit Mua Cave, Hoa Lu Temples-Drive to Hanoi
Day 6: Hanoi-Departure

DAY 1 (…) – Hanoi-Drive/bike to Mai Chau/ Biking distance: 30 kilometers (moderate grade) (L)
07:30 Meet your private guide at the hotel lobby. Have a short briefing about the bike tour, then you will leave the hotel traveling southwest Hanoi. Enjoy the spectacular scenery whist transfer. After about 2-hour drive, you arrive in Luong Son, Hoa Binh province. Load the bikes and follow a less traffic road, you start cycling in undulation for about 30 kilometers uphill. Upon arrival Cun Mountain, you can admire the superb panorama of Mai Chau surrounded by a green valley and stilt houses.
At around noon, you stop at Poom Coong village in Mai Chau for a home-hosted lunch. Enjoy a short break.
In the afternoon, cycle to the Thai villages on a mix of good single track paths and undulating rough jeep trails. The view are stunning as the rides pass through many villages and across rice paddies. Our adventure day will end with a bike ride to your hotel in Mai Chau for check in.
Enjoy your relaxing time.
DAY 2 (…) – Mai Chau: A full day of hike & bike (B/L)
After breakfast, you will be picked up and transferred to Mai Ha village.
Your hike starts at 09:00 am with a walk through Kha local village and along the dirt trail through forest with tropical trees which covers Pu Poc sacred mountain of Thai ethnic minority in Mai Chau. The spectacular scenery gradually appears before you. You continue to visit Te – a small charming village is beside the forest and rarely visited by tourists. The local lunch will be served at a local homestay. Return to Mai Chau on your private vehicle.
In the afternoon, start our cycling trip to Cha Village. Exploring Mai Chau beautiful ethnic villages including Cha Long, Tong Dau.
Stopping over at Nhot Village, dropping in on a Thai family – Mr Diep’s house, be welcomed by the friendly local people, talk with them and discover their traditional culture and stilt house. Enjoying local fruit and tea, try weaving, embroidering, pounding rice and how to make wine. Afterwards you can stroll around the hamlets before getting back to your hotel in Mai Chau.
Check in and have a leisure time.