HCM trail to DMZ, Hue adventures (3 Days – 2 Nights/500 Km)

This tour can also start from Hue!

We ride through stunning mountain scenery and lush, mountain pathways that lead us back in time to remote border villages and to sites of more recent and bloody events. We explore sites from the American-Vietnamese war, including Khe Sanh and the notorious Vinh Moc tunnels. Both places have names that are etched in history. We retrace the steps taken by millions of soldiers as we travel down the infamous Highway 9 before ride along Vietnam’s stunning coastline to Hue

Highlights

Ethnic Minority Villages
Cham Temple
Local Cuisine
Old-Growth Rainforest
Mountain Waterfalls
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Khe Sanh Museum
Crossing the 17th Parallel
Historic Vinh Moc Tunnels

Day 1: Hoi An - Prao(150 km)

Drive through the rice fields, stopping at the Cham tower and historic American war sites. We will then riding along the Ho Chi Minh trail, stopping for swimming and relaxing in the waterfall.

Then continue into the highlands to visit the ethnic minority village. We will have dinner at a local restaurant.

Day 2: Prao - Khe Sanh(220 km)

Leaving Prao we come to the houses-on-stilts belonging to the ethnic minorities on the roads to Khe Sanh. adventure along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, visiting another minority village out near the town of Ta Rut we will visit the Co Tu, Pa Co minority people and walk through their village.

Then we ride  through one of the longest and most stunning passes in Vietnam while travelling on a new and quiet road, through amazing scenery of primitive forests in the imposing Truong son mountain range.  you will be surprised with the jungle, mountains, and the quietness, peace and amazing views  across the famous Dakrong bridge on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, before to Khe Sanh.

Day 3: khe Sanh - Dmz - Hue (210 km)

We will drive along Highway 9, through Carol Camp, Hien Luong bridge: known as the "Peace Bridge", a beam bridge built from steel by the French in 1950 which marks the border between North and South Vietnam before Here and Ben Hai river: an important landmark in the partition of the country into a northern and a southern zone along the 17th parallel by the Geneva Accords of 1954.

We will then arrive at the Vinh Moc Tunnels, where an entire village went underground in the 1960 to survive the bombing, The complex of tunnels, located deep in the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone, includes wells, kitchens, rooms for each family. After exploring the Vinh Moc tunnels, we’ll travel through the tunnel which leads us to the local beach here, where you are free to choose your lunch. After lunch, we will drive along the coast to Hue. On the way, we will visit the Quang Tri citadel which suffered 81 days and nights of fire bombing in 1972.

Experienced English-speaking guide or French-speaking
- motorcycle or semi-automatic scooter
- Personal, local licensed driver, if required (for pillion passengers)
- Meals, Entry fees, International safety standard helmet , Drinking water and soft drinks,
- Hotel

- Alcohol, personal & motorbike insurance (for motorcycle accident), personal expenses/tips, Damages to motorcycle