Cycling Holiday: Saigon to Bangkok 14 days

Thank you for your cycling holiday with Vietnam By Bike Travel !

At 15pm today, we will transfer you to our outskirt bicycle store of Ho Chi Minh city for fitting bicycle and get ready for this impressive nightlife on the Saigon River Cruise in your dinner restaurant where you can find the most beautiful panoramic scene. You then freely explore Saigon nightlife !

Shuttle from Saigon to Rach Mieu on the Mekong Riverside where we fit our bikes and start our exploration of the second biggest dragon fruits in Vietnam. The highlights of the biking routes are friendly farmers through many rural villages in Ben Tre and the splendid Village's pagoda. On arrival at the dock, take a private boat to the second branch of the Mekong Riverside's restaurant for lunch. 

In the afternoon, continue cycling to get over the canopy coconut homeland on a Mt.bike to the Hương Dừa workshop in which you will learn more about how locals make the best use of coconut into a variety of products. Afterwards, we will visit Dong Khoi historic site and ride under a shady path onto Tra Vinh city (if time permits). Overnight in Tra Vinh Khmer Town.

Tra Vinh is a small town and it is not a tourist destination for tourists traveling by bus. So it is really quiet at night. After 8:30 pm everything seems to be closed and It's almost asleep. Tra Vinh province is considered the homeland of Khmer and there are numerous Khmer temples in the province.

Our full day cycling of today is a chance you are not only learning cultures but also cycling on deeply to traditional villages of Khmer, stop and visit some thatch houses, experience the ways of living and visit some colorful temples on our way cycling to through Tieu Can to Cau Ke.

After we have lunch in town, a fantastic bicycling begins after just half an hour transfer by van/bus to Vinh Xuan. We continue to explore beautiful countryside villages by cycling along canals, rivers, fruit orchards and through rice paddy fields. We end up cycling and get on a van/bus to Can Tho to check in at the hotel.

Today is a long day from Can Tho to Chau Doc because of the early floating market and the beautiful border SAM hill for sunset! 

Today's early, we will start a boat trip to visit the biggest Floating Market in the Mekong Delta where traders and farmers sell and buy all seasonal fruits which create the unique picture and culture in the Delta. You will get off the boat for cycling on peaceful village paths along the canal complex system of the Mekong River. 

Our lunch will be prepared at a crocodile farm in Long Xuyen city and the driver will transfer us to the untouch hamlet for cycling to the Cajuput forest Tra Su for boat trip sight-seeing before check-in in Chau Doc hotel. Dinner and free explore Chau Doc by night !

Enjoy the beautiful speedboat journey from Chau Doc to Phnom Penh by the Mekong River, today spectacular scenery will start in the early morning after your breakfast at the hotel and with 15 minutes transfer to the Chau Doc Pier boat departure at 7h30 A.M. 

You will enjoy those highlights: fishing village and fishing boat, stilt-houses, fish farms, Temples and Pagodas, Scenic Views of the Mekong River, Riverside Life, Relaxation and Refreshments..

Just cross Tonlé Sap by ferry, the huge beautiful countryside will be opened for your challenge. We tailor your 35 km ride over the silk-worm village, including a visit to a local farm and taste tropical fruits. This is a good opportunity for you to purchase some nice little presents for family and friends back home.

Afternoon, we get out of bustling Phnom Penh to take a motorized boat about 2 hours on Tonle Sap River, that provides you with picturesque view of Royal Palace, Skyline of Phnom Penh. Leisurely enjoy your relaxing sunset until our team picks you up for dinner & discover one more night by your own way.

Following your breakfast at hotel, you will have a long transfer to villages of Kampong Thom for a before noon riding. Explore local life on dirt track, through villages, charming temples where you may see the interested traditional wedding of local people with many stops at with locals and their temples. After lunch, we get on vehicle go ahead to Siem Reap and arrive there in late afternoon.

Angkor Wat became a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which is surrounded by a lush jungle and awaits us a unique temple architecture that deeply impressed you both with their incredible size and extent, but also with its intricate stone carving details. You will take you to the main facilities and visit Angkor Thom, Bayon and Angkor Wat and the Srah Srang, the “pool” of the king with mystical Ta Prohm, half sunken in green jungle and overgrown with huge trees. Our team will show you their great experience through the forest trails, around the ruined temples and get to know in-depth about the grand Khmer civilization.

In the morning, we take you back to the Angkor complex area for cycling to Bantay Srey was built by female artists – a remote temple is belonged to Angkor Grand. Biking 35km pass the jungle and villages will be stared into your face. You might see how people make sugar and local wine from “tnoat” – a kind of Khmer sugar palm tree. Having the lunch at the long house of “Bong Thom” in the middle of the organic rice farm and return to the hotel’s swimming pool or exlore the local market. A well dinner will be hosted at one of the finest local restaurant in Siem Riep and free explore !

Experiencing the paved and dirt roads today along the way to Pailin Town, you will ride through with the special atmosphere and then enjoy rolling hills. Enjoy a local lunch at the town of Phnom Sampou. In the afternoon, you continue riding and visit the top highlights in Battambang with its famous peculiarities. Check-in & relax until dinner.

Enjoy the breakfast in the hotel, you then fill the water with briefing the biking road's from Battambang to Pailin details and pedal to be warmed up about 20km with any short stop for sight-seeing at the hilltop pagoda and cave, you then ready for the bigger challenge of Cadarmon Mountain Rage with the great panorama of rice fields, corn, any handicraft houses and the cute kids rise their hands to shoot hello to you the whole way to Pailin for overnight.

Following your morning breakfast is ready to cross the Cambodia - Thailand International Border for Chanthaburi Destination with a short 35km biking loop under the lush canopy to enjoy the first impressive Thailand. Overnight in Chanthaburi with farewell dinner.

A well served buffet breakfast at the hotel, you immediately pedal deep into this "City Of The Moon" in Chanthaburi which is a beautiful feature of architecture and culture and any morning time for relaxation combined with cycling along the beach and seafood lunch at the charming beach for swimming.

Afterward, you then transfer out of Chanthaburi to north-west for your main day biking loop of 50km and having a stopover at the Mangrove Forest Center which will be a well organized Thailand Tourism so far. You will be picked for a short drive to Pattaya for dinner & overnight.

Experiencing the coastline by cycling 35km in the backroads of Pattaya. Here, you will enjoy the colorful flowers in the rural village and visit the Khao She Chan temple that is one of the most famous constructions in Pattaya and We may meet the famous Muay Thai boxer. Taste local foods at lunch and checkout after a short shower for Bangkok transfer. Overnight in Bangkok capital. 

In this special evening, you will explore the Bangkok nightlife by tuktuk with the happy ending at our farewell dinner on Chao Praya riverside restaurant. Overnight in Bangkok. 

Our cycling adventure comes to an end today. We celebrate our success with one last breakfast together and be transferred to the airport with our guide and driver. Thank you and see you next adventure cycling holiday with Vietnam By bike Travel !