Mu Cang Chai is in far Northwest Vietnam, 300km far from Hanoi. It’s well-known as one of the most beautiful Rice Terrace in Vietnam & in the world. If you like photography, nature and people’s culture, mix with a little challenging but freedom on a motorbike, this Motorbiking Mu Cang Chai tour is designed for you.
You also have the chance to meet the friendly ethnic people in the mountainous area, who still keep their unique and interesting customs and culture.
Our program has well organized and flexible for every driving skill level, so if you want to save your health, time & cost, it is also a good choice.
Noi Bai International Airport (Google Map)
Your hotel in Hanoi
6:30 – 7.00 am: Our car will pick you up by sharing car from Hanoi to Nghia Lo. ( If your group from 4 people, we can arrange a private car transfer)
Around 12 am, drop off in Nghia Lo town. We have lunch here. Our staff will prepare a motorbike for you to start from here. Nghia Lo – the home of Thai people and the large rice field- Muong Lo field. We will start to see the beautiful scenery beside the road, the green tea plantations hill, the rice paddy, and ethnic local life. You will ride around 50km to Tu Le, enjoy dinner with traditional meals, and sleep in a traditional and authentic house of Thai people.
P/s: The room in the homestay is a shared room, each person sleeps in a mattress on the second floor.
If you want to sleep in a private room, let us know to change to the hostel or hotel.
Depending on the customers’ riding skills, we can customize the duration to suit your health.
Summary:
Distance: 200km by bus + 50km by motorbike
After breakfast, we continue to run from Tu Le – Mu Cang Chai. We have a full day to discover the beauty of this mountainous district. Mu Cang chai – the hilly paddy growing districts, are designated as Vietnam’s national heritage site. It is home to Vietnam’s Hmong minority tribe, whose rural way of life & colorful ethnic costumes and amazing scene for photography.
This journey passes through the stunning mountainous landscape, get higher and higher. We will ride over the Khau Pha pass (one of the four greatest passes in Northern Vietnam).
The ride is on some of the most scenic roads which offer a lot of stops for picturing such as Cao Pha valley– a beautiful valley located at the foot of the pass and Paragliding site – to see the panorama view of the pass and valley.
The road in the mountain includes cement-concrete steeply road and dirt rock soil road, it’s a challenge for your riding skill and interesting experience.
Ride a motorbike and explore the rice terrace or local life beside the road, experience the farming work, learn to draw batik fabric – to make the traditional clothes of Hmong people, and explore the traditional house and culture of Hmong people.
If you ride a motorbike well, we can create an offroad route for you. At the end of the road is a homestay of Thai or Hmong ethnic people. Enjoy the dinner and sleep here.
After breakfast, there’s more time to look around and experience life in Mu Cang Chai. On the coming back way, ride a motorbike from Khau Pha pass to Lim Mong, Lim Thai – the village in the middle of Cao Pha valley – with beautiful scenery of rice terrace field, mountain and stream.
We come back to Nghia Lo then catch the bus or sharing car back to Hanoi and arrive Hanoi in the evening. Our guide will a say goodbye & see you again on another journey./.
Summary:
Distance: 100 km by motorbike + 200 km by bus
Mu Cang Chai 3D2N
We had a wonderful experience with Zonitrip! We discovered Mu Cang Chai in a truly unique way. The trekkings were stunning, the homestays incredibly friendly and warm, and our tour guide was simply amazing. It was the perfect end of our trip to Vietnam!
Trip to Mu Cang Chai Could Not Have Been Better
Nghia was a wonderful tour guide who spoke great English and had a great deal of knowledge of the geography, culture, and networks within Yen Bai Provence. I really enjoyed having Nghia as a guide because she was so willing to share information about the Veitnamese countryside but she also gave me my personal space.
Nghia is also a very skilled and experience motorcycle driver, and I recommend riding on the back of her bike unless you are a skilled cyclist. Another aspect of the trip I loved was how much Nghia was willing to let me personalize the experience. It seems like she really gets to know each of her customers and designs a trip in the moment to fit their personalities. A little bit like “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” 😉
Anyway, the beauty of the places you’ll go are unparalleled (Mu Cang Chai), and the service within this tour is also second to none. I recommend it to anyone with a love for travel, adventure, and passion for photography.
10 days private photography motorbike tour – Mu Cang Chai to Ban Gioc
I had absolutely wonderful photography and motorbike Mu Cang Chai tour to Ban Gioc waterfall with Zonitrip in October this year! You will be extremely lucky to have a guide like Nghia, her professionalism, flexibility, patience and dedication to my needs were beyond my expectations. This was my second tour with Zonitrip and will definitely my preferred tour operator when I plan for my next trip to Sapa and Hoang Su Phi. Highly recommended!!!
Motorbike Mu Cang Chai Tour 3D2N – One of the most amazing tours of my life, with the best tour guide ever !
I took a 3D2N Motorbike tour around Mu Cang Chai area with Zonitrip and it was the best tour I have ever done! I have taken tours in all continents but this tour was the best, it is unique! Not only for the beautiful places I visited or friendly people I meet but also for the tour guide, Nghia. She is one of the friendliest and energetic persons I have ever met. She is from Yen Bai, with very good English skills, and thanks to her local knowledge I could visit one a beautiful places: the rice terrace in Mu Cang Chai.
The tour was a motorbike tour so let’s comment about her driving skills: she is a very good driver! I was not 100% confident driving a motorbike in Vietnam so she drove me. The tour started in Hanoi where she picked me up from the hotel and then we took a bus to Yen Bai where we would start the tour with motorbike. If I knew that it’s not so difficult to go to Yen Bai from Hanoi by public transport (bus or train) I would have met Nghia in Yen Bai. We stayed overnight with friendly families and we tried excellent food. In all the places we had lunch the food was so tasted! You will try local food that you cannot have anywhere else. The 3 hours trekking we did around Mu Cang Chai area (La Pa Tan…) was just perfect: beautiful views and meeting friendly people. We even play football with some local kids and we helped harvesting 🙂 !
Nghia was always helpful and looking after her customers! Without Nghia’s local knowledge of the area I wouldn’t have been able to visit the places by myself. Her knowledge about the culture in the area will let you understand how people live there, the different ethnics and everything about the region. Places where you hardly meet other tourist but friendly local people. If you like photography, Nghia knows the best spots to capture the beauty of area. Although there is a program to follow in the tour, Nghia was more than happy changing the program according to my personal interests. She even woke up to see the sunrise with me!. Unfortunately, it was cloudy and we didn’t see the sunrise but she acted as a model closed to a river for a nice photo !
Although all my comments below might give an idea of what you might expect, you need to take a tour with Zonitrip to really experience it. The best tour, with the best tour guide ever in one of the most beautiful places in the world !
Thanks Nghia, you started as a tour guide and finished as a friend. It was like travelling with a friend!
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Great Customer Service, One of A Kind Trip”
I had a spontaneous motorbike trip in Northwest Vietnam with the customized Mu Cang Chai Tour of 3D/2N from Zonitrip. It was one of the best trips I had taken. The landscapes, the people, and the culture of the Northwest side of Vietnam, specifically Yen Bai province, I had experienced fully with the help of Zonitrip and Ms. Nghia.
Despite my short notice, she did extremely well in organizing this trip and making it possible. The price is very reasonable and worth every cent. Although their guide and services started this year only, Ms. Nghia is very knowledgeable and capable of organizing and planning trips as well as the history and traditions of the people and places in Yen Bai.
However, since it was a motorbike adventure trip, you have to prepare for long rides on a motorbike so better to bring along some muscle creams or patches to ease sore muscles. Carry light as much as possible but be sure to bring along windbreakers, face masks, glasses/sunglasses, gloves (optional).
As they say, there’s no better way to experience Northern Vietnam than riding a motorbike and that is absolutely true. Thank you Zonitrip and Ms. Nghia for making my experience in Northwest Vietnam a very memorable one.
