Hai Van pass is well known for its dangerous roads

Traveling with us for motorbike tours Vietnam along Ho Chi Minh trail, you can have a chance to ride through Hai Van pass which is situated along the Hai Van mountain side, on the border of Thua Thien Hue Province and Da Nang, and is one of the world’s most scenic coastal drives. Hai Van means “Sea Clouds”, since the peak of the mountain is in the clouds while its foot is close to the sea.

When you ride through Hai Van pass, you will have 2 feelings: amazement at passing through the clouds and fear when seeing the dangerous bends of the road. Hai Van pass is the longest and highest mountain pass road in Viet Nam with a length of 21km.  Its summit is 496m above sea level. Hai Van is well known for its dangerous roads, and accident warning boards carefully appear regularly along the side.

Motorcycle tours Vietnam through the pass on a sunny day, you can enjoy dazzling panoramic views over Da Nang, the Tien Sa Port, the Son Tran Peninsula, the Cham Islands, and the picturesque endless white-sand beaches. Here, if the weather affords it, there are views to both the North and the South. The road on the pass winds along the mountainside. If you cross in winter, the pass serves as something of a visible dividing line between the climates of the north and south. With sudden curves, blind corners and covered by a thick layer of mist all year round Hai Van pass is like an arrogant but beautiful girl challenging those who like adventures. The road is difficult and it’s a nightmare in the wet or dark (or both).

Tourists can discover the beauty of the pass, visit the Hai Van Gateway or behold Thong Nhat trains passing through mountains under green canopies. Combining nature and the creations of man, the Hai Van Pass deserves its name “the most marvellous wonder” as given by Emperor Tran Nhan Tong in 1470. Previously, Hai Van pass was the only road connecting the north and the south. However, in 2005, the 6280m-long Hai Van Tunnel opened, bypassing the pass and shaving an hour off the journey between Danang and Hue. Because of this, few people now use the pass.

So if you find the pass so attractive when reading this brief introduction, please contact us for the best Vietnam motorcycle tours to visit one of the highest passes in Vietnam as soon as possible.

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You might once taste noodles of other countries or Vietnamese noodles somewhere else, but nothing could beat the amazingly subtle flavor of Vietnamese noodles in Hanoi. You are unlikely to find good “Pho” in a big hotel. Many of the best “Pho” restaurants have very basic tables, chairs, and decor but are full of customers.

Many customers joining Vietnam motorcycle tours with us agree with us that the most special “Pho” restaurant in Hanoi is Pho Bat Dan (located at No.49, Bat Dan). This restaurant servers “Pho” Noodle- a long lasting traditional dish of Vietnam. It has opened years now, despite all-day sale, it is always much in demand. In order to enjoy the cuisine, you have to stand in line and wait until your serving done. Yet, with the excellent service, it only takes you about 10 minutes for waiting, rest assured.

A bowl of “Pho” includes five essential ingredients: flat rice noodle, meat, broth, herbs, and spices. As many loyal customers here said: “Once you enjoy the noodle at Bat Dan, you will see noodles in other places really tasteless”. The price here is quite expensive, for normal set 35,000 VND and for bigger dish 45,000 VND.

Let’s see the review of Mr. Pratik P from Washington DC: “Wow. The pho at Pho Bat Dan is HANDS down the BEST pho we’ve had in Vietnam. That’s right—in ALL of Vietnam.  Let me start with the best part of the experience: the beef. Tender, delicious, and fresh. They also pack in a lot for you, so it’s not like other places where they skimp on the meat. Get the Pho Bo and you’ll see what I mean. Noodles: cooked perfectly. Broth: just like everything else above… freakin’ delicious. All for 50,000 VND ($2.30) per bowl. It’s really a no brainer. Go and enjoy :)”

Now. Com with us for amazing motorbike tours Vietnam and also have tours to enjoy the most famous dish “Pho” in Bat Dan.

Muong Hum Market, a popular market of hill tribes in North of Vietnam

Vietnam Dirtbike Travel offer rides motorbike tours Vietnam to all over the northern mountains of Vietnam, down the Ho Chi Minh Trail with powerful dirt bike for all level: novice, intermediate and expert.

Today, we would like to introduce you about Muong Hum market, a very famous market in Bat Xat District, Lao Cai province which is approximately 45km away from Sapa Town. It would be a real miss to skip this merry farmer market in your trip to the Far North. The market is full of people making transactions, bustling activities and colors.

If possible, it is the best experience when joining Vietnam motorcycle tours to Muong Hum market from Sapa. Muong Hum Market is set on open flat land at the bottom of a large and scenic valley by a small river and surrounded by terraced rice paddies. This market convenes on every Sunday is a place where local people meet and communicate.

Many ethnic minority come to the market to sell their homemade products including vegetables, fruits and also domestic animal. The colorful dresses of the market attendants are so fun to watch. There are several ethnic groups going to this market-Giay, Dao, Hmong and Ha Nhi. To some visitors, the diversity of the market attendance alone is bewitching enough. In the market, many Thai girls wearing long pink, green shirts gather around the stall selling handmade silver jewelries. At other corner, there are orange and green dresses of H’mong girls crowdedly standing around the heap of pomegranate. The young Dao girls wear beautifully and sophisticatedly with red scarves on their heads which are rolled up and long to the ears. The long black dresses of Ha Nhi ethnic group is embroidered with green patterns that is new and sophisticated.

The town is awakening by human and horses sounds and colored by the costume worm by local people come down from mountain around. Some famous dishes you can enjoy when coming here are: horse meat fried with onion, pig entrails served with mint leaves and don’t forget to have them with Lao Cai wine or fresh beer.

When the market ends, tourists will be surprised when seeing H’mong wives walking and taking the horses along to carry their drunken husbands to home and the children speaking English proficiently despites of never going to the language school…

Muong Hum market still reserves their own traditional and their lifestyle. When you come here even you are a stranger but people here are warmly welcome you not only with their smiles they can invite you to their meals as well.

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Sa Pa church, the most ancient architectural work of the French left in Sa Pa

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If you love Sapa and found the information about this beautiful town through the photos on internet before coming with us for one of the best motorbike tours Vietnam, you can see the Sapa church which is so oustanding in many photos.

Sa Pa church is located in a prime location, shielded by Ham Rong Mountain on the back, facing a large, flat area, which is the home to colorful festivals of the mountain town. The church was built in 1895 and it is the most ancient architectural work of the French left in Sa Pa, Lao Cai. Before starting to build this structure, the French architect selected carefully about the terrain. was built in 1895 and it is the most ancient architectural work of the French left in Sa Pa, Lao Cai.

The whole church was built by stone (walls, floors, bell towers …) that are linked by a mixture of sand, lime and molasses under the cross by Roman gothic architecture With total area over 6000m2, Sapa church has enough rooms for the arrangement of the area. The interior is decorated with lovely stained glass windows in a modern style that depict the life of Christ. The church includes seven spacious rooms of more than 500 m2, with the 20 m bell tower and a bell of 1.5 meters high, cast in 1932, weighing 500 kg and the resonation within a radius of nearly one kilometer. Choosing the direction of the church has important spiritual significance for Catholics. The church faces the east, towards the rising sun to welcome the light of the God. At the end of the church (the bell tower) is the west, the birthplace of Christ.

The church of Sapa is always a place where holds many traditional cultural activities of ethnic minorities. At the church, ethnic minorities often held traditional activities known by tourists as ‘market situation”. Additionally, because the structure was designed early, the church of Sapa experienced many events of history.

Though having been standing in the land for more than a hundred years and witnessed the contemporary history of Vietnam, Sapa Church is always under quite well maintenance. Sa Pa Stone Church has been nominated by the Vietnam Records Book Centre as one of the top five over 100-year-old churches in Vietnam.

Do not hesitate to contact us to book one of the best motorcycle tours Vietnam ever to visit this so famous church in Vietnam.

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Brief introduction of Xa Pho ethnic in Sapa, Lao Cai

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In most of our itineraries of Vietnam motorcycle tours from at least 4 days, you can visit Sapa. Sapa is one of the few districts in Vietnam with Hmong people composing the majority: 51.65%, followed by Yao 23.04%, Kinh 17.91%, Tay 4.74%, Day 1.36% and Xa Pho 1.06%.

Although Xa Pho people occupy 1.06% but in Sa Pa, only a few people living in the commune deputy commune of Nam Sai village located on the south end of Sa Pa District is a remote place, far from roads, so travel is difficult and infrequent exposure where other. You rarely see them in Sapa town, this people has many things to discover.

The Xa Pho are a sub-ethnicity of the Phu La, a Sino- Tibetan-speaking group found further east in the Bat Xat, Muong Khuong, Bac Ha and Si Ma Cai Districts of Lao Cai Province. Their language belongs to Tibeto – Burmese language group. The Xa Pho people can speak most of the languages of other ethnics in the region although they have their own language. However, it is very difficult to speak or understand the language of this people because it sounds like birds singing.

You are easy to recognize the Xa Pho people by their costume. Women wear a short shirt with a long skirt made from indigo-dyed hemp fabric. They use a bright red thread to embroider decorations all over their clothes. A black or multi-colored turban and jewellery made of shells or colored beads are also generally worn.

The Xa Pho people in the same village or community are very united and helpful. If every family has no food, they can visit their neighbor for meal. If a family kills a chicken, everyone in the village can come to eat some without invitation.

The Xa Pho people build houses half on stilts and half on the ground. The houses look very simple and the decoration and the furniture made of bamboo or rattan are also simple too. Located in the nave altar, the kitchen is also a living space, in addition to outbuildings from 5-10 meters from the main house to the grain.

The people live mainly on tilled terraced cultivation, cultivation of upland rice. Upland rice is still characteristic red marble to make sticky rice wine. They also grow some other kinds such as: maize, cassava, melon, sorghum, pumpkin, vegetables, soy bean, gourd, pumpkin, taro …Besides, The Xa Pho people also raise some kinds of livestock such as cattle, horses; small livestock, such as pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, and especially fellow mountain goat to economic development.

Please join us for one of the best Vietnam motorbike tours to know more about the Xa Pho people and also the other ethnics in Sapa.

Moc Chau always attracts tourists by its fresh and picturesque natural scenery

Moc Chau always attracts tourists by its fresh and picturesque natural scenery

In our itineraries for the best Vietnam motorbike tours, you can see Moc Chau plateau is a very favourite place. So, today, we will give you some main features of it:

Moc Chau, 199km from Hanoi along National Highway 6, is located at the north-western of Vietnam with 80km long and 25km wide and about 1050m above sea level. The most precious resource of MocChau is its climate. With an ideal weather - temperature from 18°C to 26°C in summer, this is the perfect time to visit Moc Chau and enjoy the vacation here while the other places are too hot.

Moc Chau always attracts tourists by its fresh and picturesque natural scenery together with cultural diversity of different ethnic minority groups. However, Moc Chau is the most beautiful in spring. At that time, sunflowers, apricot flowers, plum flowers and peach flowers blooms in every slopes, all around mountains and valleys. The plateau looks like decorated by the colors of flower species in all roadsides.

It is known and remembered to Moc Chau with those green hills and lush tea. The most interesting thing is walking on the green vast grass field and enjoy the peaceful green of large tea plantations, experiencing the feelings like a farmer when wearing ‘gui’ on your back and picking up tea. Some like visiting cow farms, seeing the cows graze, feeding them, see the locals milking cows, or enjoying cups of hot fresh milk. It is very easy to buy some special products from milk as souvenirs for your relatives and friends. It is really amazing!

Some unique natural sightseeing spots you can visit when coming to Moc Chau are: Bat Cave, Chieng Khoa Waterfall, Dai Yem Waterfall, Son MocHuong Cave, ChienVien Pagoda…

Believe in us, what you can see in Moc Chau is what you are expected. So, do not hesitate to book motorcycle tours Vietnam to this wonderful destination like that.