13-DAY LAOS OVERLAND MOTORBIKE TOUR TO VIETNAM

Welcome to Laos!
Airport arrival transfer and hotel check in.
Spend the afternoon and evening at leisure.
Meals on your own.

Summary:
Accommodation: standard room at beau rivage hotel – www.hbrm-laos.com
Services: Private guide/private car transfer

After breakfast we explore the charming capital on a city tour.
Highlights include Wat Si Saket – the oldest Buddhist monastery temple in the country, the former royal temple of Haw Pha Kaeo, Pha That Luang monument and the Buddha Park with its incredible array of Hindu and Buddhist sculptures. We also visit to the COPE Centre, a charity working with victims of unexploded bombs and mines.
Afternoon ride the bike 175km to Vang Vieng and overnight “your guide will escort you to stop at some of fish village”. Enjoy your adventure on dirt road to MuangFuang and overnight .

Summary:
Accommodation: standard room at local guest house. 
Services: Private guide/truck following riders/motor bike 
Distant: 200KM included sightseeing and Buddha park 

Breakfast served at local restaurant then enjoy your off-road adventure from Muangfuang to Muangmap here most of different tribal both low land and upland living along the roadside. The surrounding mountains and local rice field are great spot for photos. Continue on paved road to Paklai and sayabory province for overnight.

Summary:
Accommodation: standard room at local guest house. 
Services: Private guide/truck following riders/motor bike 
Distant: 175KM 
Accommodation: standard room at local guest house 225KM 

After breakfast, travelling north to the enchanting Luang Prabang. Stops on the way to visit local villages and landscapes from high points view. Arrival in Luang Prabang and check-in hotel. In the waterfall enjoy riding to KuangSi waterfall or hang around the peninsular on confluence of Mekong and Khan River or either visit highlights of Luang Prapang – the fabulous UNESCO Listed former royal capital.

Sightseeing includes the ancient temples of Wat Visoun and Wat Aham, Ock Pop Tok weaving centre and the beautifully ornate former Royal Palace.
Meals on your own.

Summary:
Accommodation: standard room at Thavonsouk bungalow – www.villachitdara1.com 
Services: Private guide/truck following riders/motor bike 
Distance: 200km

This morning, you will be ride to the Elephant Village, a centre with a focus on the protection and rehabilitation of elephants in Laos. Upon arrival you will meet the camp manager and hear about the work carried out by a team of dedicated staff and volunteers in caring for the elephants. Next, climb aboard an elephant for a jungle walk (around 25mns). Enjoy tea in the Elephant village on the bank of Nam Khan River. 

This afternoon, ferry on Mekong to BAN CHOMPHET where you start a walk through forest along the foot of PHOUNANG mountain approximately 1,5 hours through local villages and temples if you wish to stop and speak with local monks to learn about their real life then its flexible to keep in touch with them on spot, continue by foot to SAKALINE cave inside are beautiful stalagmite and stalactite including Buddha statues, visit Champhet and Longkhun temples. Ferry back in town.

Summary:
Accommodation: standard room at Thavonsouk bungalow – www.villachitdara1.com 
Services: Private guide/truck following riders/motorbike 
Distance: 50km back and forth 

Breakfast at the hotel and enjoy riding long the Mekong river to north east of Laos.Stop and visit Ban XANGKHONG, a weaving village, where you can jump into wooden looms with local expert for practical and experience. You will reach Pak Ou caves at the confluence of the Mekong and Nam Ou Rivers. In these 2 caves are displayed hundreds of sacred centuries-old Buddha images which are the object of pilgrimages during the Lao New Year festivities around mid-April. Continue riding up mountainous stop on high view point a spectacular views of surrounding mountains and rice-field.

Summary:
Accommodation: standard room at Villa KEOSEUMSAK .
Services: Private guide/truck following riders/motor bike 
Distance: 198km 

Breakfast at local restaurant then ride your motor bike to MoungLa here you start off-road to local minority of few different high-land people such as KUMU, AKHA and H’mong who live on the top of high mountain
Afternoon continue riding along the Nampark river to Moung Khua for overnight.

Summary:
Accommodation: standard room at local guest house 
Services: Private guide/truck following riders/motor bike 
Distance: 170km 

In this morning, after having breakfast we’ll say goodbye to Muang Khua – Laos to keep heading straight to Tay Trang border gate of Vietnam. After a few time to complete the paperworks with the Customs, you’ll meet our Vietnamese guide then keep rolling on the road crossing a series of mountains, passes and areas of busy Black Thai activity. Children walk to school, kids tend buffaloes, women plant rice seedlings and men pull the buffalo. Then we come to the beginning of the very long and steep Pha Din pass where at the top we have vast views of the surrounding mountains, then down the other side on very steep sealed road. Lunch in Tuan Giao.

Heading out northwest from Tuan Giao the road passes isolated communities of Hmong and Thai people, whose small villages settle on the banks of dark green rivers and on the steep slopes of the mountains. Afterwards, by a forest stream the road begins to climb up the high Xa Tong pass. At the top for sunset before dropping sharply into the deep Lai Chau valley. Muong Lay old town was sunk in early 2010 and our new place for overnighting is new town, which is located on higher level.

Summary:
Distance: 240 km
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel

After breakfast we will start our easy day along stunning gorges and passing Sin Ho town – the “second Sapa” of the northwest.
Flying far from the well-known and colorful markets of Sapa, Bac Ha and Can Cau, is the bewitching northwest mountainous area of Vietnam with the remote town and market of Sin Ho, the roof of Lai Chau province. Sin Ho town is located on the highest peak of the Sin Ho plateau in Lai Chau province, over 2,000m above sea level, and surrounded by verdant mountain ranges and clouds.

On the way we will have interesting stops to visit H’mong and Dzao villages before motorbiking down to Than Uyen in Lai Chau, where we spend night at the hotel.

Summary:
Distance: 160 km
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Than Uyen

Today, We’ll keep on motorcycling up & down over some challenging passes with curves and lots of beautiful terraces, high mountains, deep valleys cum peaceful villages of the hill tribes. En route, we can not be missed Mu Cang Chai peak which is known as one of most beautiful peaks in the North of Vietnam where people tend to get together to enjoy gliding in the fall when the harvesting season comes annually. Surely you’ll love such a scenic place.

Summary:
Distance: 180 km
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Nghia Lo

After having breakfast at hotel, you’ll keep jumping on your iron horses to follow the road No 32 to get to Moc Chau. En route, there will be a lot of nice stopovers at terraces, villages & even waterfalls for you to relax & communicate with friendly people.
Lunch will be reserved at a local restaurant
In the afternoon, we’ll get to Moc Chau & after a short a break, we’ll keep riding to discover some best highlights of Moc Chau with the Moc Chau farm for milk-cows, tea plateau, pike forest, Dai Yet waterfall …
Summary:
Distance: 180 km
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Moc Chau

Today, we’ll keep following the road No 43 then 15 to approach Pu Luong Nature Retreat with magnificent mountain ranges, stunning rice terrae fields, scenic rivers and waterfalls, breathtaking mountain passes and remote traditional villages, Pu Luong is truly a microcosm of Northern Vietnam. En route, we’ll stop by Mai Chau valley to have a lunch at a local restaurant before rolling to Pu Luong.

Summary:
Distance: 180 km
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Homestay

Today, we’ll be at leisure to ride motorbike to discover many other attractions around your place till the time to ride back to Hanoi.
We might end the trip in Hanoi at 18:00

Summary:
Distance: 180 km
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: None