Village Cycling
Village Cycling
Enjoy an impressive full day cultural experience on quality mountain bikes as you cycle through the beautiful landscape of the Phong Nha area, with great service and attention to detail given by your guide. He will take you off the beaten track in a flexible itinerary, so you can discover traditional village life mostly unchanged over the last few hundred years, and he will introduce you to local farmers, fishermen and entrepreneurs. Those who have taken the tour have called it “Local adventure tourism at its best!” so if you are a bit caved out, feel like some fresh air and some light exercise, and would like to meet and see fascinating local people and learn of their culture, jump onto one of these marvelous Phong Nha bike tours!
What to bring: Sunglasses; sun-cream; cycling shoes; swimming gears; rain gear.
Notes: A quality international standard mountain bike and helmet are included in the tour price. Please inform us your height when you book the tour to arrange the suitable bike size. Unexpected changes on itinerary might happen due to the weather conditions.
Itinerary
08:30-08:45: Our team will pick you up at your hotel in Phong Nha to go to the starting point for briefing and to review the rules on village roads.
08:45: Cycling along Son River to reach to Bong Lai village with the opportunity to join in local farming activities in the rice paddies or peanut fields or learning how Vietnamese style popcorn is made. Stop at Gia Hung village, where there is a local homemade rice wine shop, which is known as the best in the area. Learn how to make rice wine – you are invited to taste this amazing local spirit! Leaving the village, you will be riding a local ferry or over a floating bridge to get to the other bank of Son river. From here, we will be cycling on unpaved road paths. After some uphill, descend into Bong Lai valley where you will stop at a local farm runs by a VC Veteran couple, Mr. Vi and his Lady. Learn how they do farming and enjoy the seasonal fruits in their farm. Have a pleasant talk to the family while waiting for your from-farm-to-table lunch.
Lunch is served with the roasted chicken and vegetable feats magical peanut sauce (home-grown) or with pork cooked in bamboo tree as VC’s style. Later, cross the Rao Con River to get to the famous attraction of Phong Nha – the Pub with cold beer – which is featured on Huffington. Take your cold drink and enjoy the view from the hill in fresh air. Free until time to cycle back the town via the paths that are off the beaten track, cross the Banana village and many beautiful rice fields (rice can be seen from Jan-Aug). Tour ends about 16:30.
Duration: Full day
Level: Easy
Cycling Distance: 17-28km
Road Surface: Back roads
Region: Phong Nha, Central Vietnam
Availability: Daily
Group size: 2-12 (min 2 to operate)
Tour starts: 8:30am
Tour ends: 4:30pm
Price from: 45USD / 1,050,000vnd
