Hoian to Quang Ngai 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 white paper cake,etc…discover many famous places as My Son sanctuary, Dak To, Kon Tum city and especially Mang Den pass where is the interesting place for you to enjoy the air as the same as Dalat.

Brief:

Duration: 4 days/3 night (8am – 5pm)

Distance: 510km

Price: $65/person/day

Draft itinerary:

• Day 1: Hoian – Kham Duc
• Day 2: Kham Duc – Kon Tum
• Day 3: Kontum – Mang Den
• Day 4: Mang Den – Quang Ngai

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 templesconstructed 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 factory. The end of the day, you will spend the evening at the guesthouse in Kham Duc town.

• Day 2: Kham Duc – Kontum (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 day, we will spend the evening at the guesthouse in Kon Tum city.

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.

• Day 3: Kon Tum – Mang Den (50km)

Mang Den, which is about 50 kilometers from Kon Tum and is being developed into a national eco-tourism area.

The trip is not long, but it is quite challenging. We will have to climb a 12-kilometer mountain pass, also named Mang Den, with 126 turns. If you do not enjoy cold weather, be warned that it felt very chilly to travel at a height of some 1,300 meters above the sea level.

With a majority of its area still covered with forests, and the all year round cool climate (the highest temperature is 22 Celsius degrees), Mang Den reminded you of Da Lat during its prime time, decades ago, when it had not yet been invaded by “development”and the buildings and pollution that it brought in.

Mang Den, which means “flat land” in the language of the ethnic Mo Nam people, is part of Kon Plong District, almost 75 percent (130,000 hectares) of which is covered by forests.

Like Da Lat, Mang Den also boasts an array of waterfalls like Tram, Pa Si, and Dak Ke, and lakes like Ly Leng, Po, Jori, Sang, Dam, Ki, and Lu Rpoong. These waterfalls and lakes are located within 10 kilometers from the area’s center.

Day 4 : Mang Den – Quang Ngai (130km)

After spending a whole day in the forests, we will visit a few ethnic minority villages.

Mang Den is home to at least three ethnic minority communities Mo Nam, Ca Dong and Hre, who have their distinct cultures and customs, from the way they plan terrace fields, hunt, farm cattle, to conduct weddings, and observe religion. All these cultural aspects are worth exploring at leisure, if one has time to spare. The end of the tour, we will finish in Quang Ngai.

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.