Hoian to KonTum via the Ho Chi Minh trail  

The tour provides you the chance to see the real Vietnam with stunningly beautiful landscapes that you can never see from a bus or train window. You will also have an opportunity to enjoy fresh air along the countryside, meet local people,  find their cultures, eat delicious foods, swim in waterfalls, ride to the places where have villages and ethnic local people planting pineapples, make rice paper cake,etc…, discover many famous places as My Son sanctuary, Dak To, Kon Tum city. The mountain and the jungle along the Ho Chi Minh trail are enigma and beautiful and virtually empty of the tourists.

Brief:

Duration: 2 days/1 night (8am – 5pm)

Distance: 330km

Price: $65/person/day

Draft itinerary:

• Day 1: Hoian – Kham Duc
• Day 2: Kham Duc – Kon Tum

Itinerary:

• Day 1: Hoian – Kham Duc (150km)

Pick you up at the hotel you are staying in Hoian, ride to the country side. You can enjoy fresh air out of Hoian after only five minutes and stop everywhere you want. Ride to My Son sanctuary where is is a cluster of abandoned and partially ruined Hindu temples constructed between the 4th and the 14th century AD by the kings of Champa (Chiêm Thành in Vietnamese). The temples are dedicated to the worship of the god Shiva, known under various local names, the most important of which is “Bhadresvara.”

Continue to ride to villages along the road, you can spend hours in a small farm, talk with local people, find their cultures and lives. You can swim in the waterfalls, walk to pineapple farm and rice paper making tiny building. The end of the day, you will spend the evening at the guesthouse in Kham Duc town.

• Day 2: Kham Duc – Kon Tum (180km)

Breakfast at hotel, ride to the amazing landscape along the Ho Chi Minh trail. The road will pass through lush, green jungle, there are very few other vehichles. The people along this section of the road rarely see foreigners and are very friendly, with children waving and adults smiling and nodding when we pass. There are many places to stop along the way, including Dak To, a city of decent size containing hotels, places to eat and a large Bahnar house beside a monument commemorating the town’s capture in 1975.The end of the tour, we will finish in Kon Tum.

The city itself is pleasant, though there is not a huge amount to see. Kon Tum is the centre of the local Christian diocese and here churches become a regular feature of the landscape. It is also the convergence of a number of hill-tribes, mainly Bahnar, M’Nong, Ede and Lao, though traditional dress is seen nowhere nearly as frequently as in the north, mainly because, according to various organisations, the minorities here have suffered at the hands of the government, presumably due to their fighting alongside South Vietnam and America during the war in the CIDG.

Prices:

Inclusive:

• Guide
• Bikes and Helmets
• Fuel
• Riding gloves and raincoat
• Entrance fee
• Hotel room

Exclusive:

• All meals and beverage unspecified
• Travel insurance

Don’t worry about your luggage. We take care of that by tieing them at a back of the mortocycle. Your luggage will make your back never hurt nor your bum.