Vietnam Motorbike Tours: Best On & Off-road Adventures

Our motorcycle tours traverse Vietnam’s defining terrain, from Ha Giang’s limestone cliffs where the road carves through clouds at 2,000 meters, to the Ho Chi Minh Trail’s jungle corridors where history still clings to the hillsides like morning mist. 

Since 2013, we’ve guided riders through landscapes that reveal themselves slowly: terraced valleys stepping down mountainsides in geometric precision, coastal stretches where the ocean appears suddenly around blind curves, and backcountry passages connecting communities that buses will never reach. Our all-inclusive tours include experienced guides who know these roads by heart, adventure motorcycles built for Vietnam’s extremes (Honda XR150, CB500X, BMW GS 1250, Triumph Tiger 1200), and the flexibility to ride at your own pace, whether joining scheduled departures or designing custom routes that follow your curiosity rather than a template.

Vietnam’s geography reveals itself in chapters along 1,650 kilometers of elevation extremes and climate zones. In the north, limestone karst formations rise 2,000 meters above Ha Giang’s valleys, where mountain passes carve through clouds and Hmong villages cling to terraced slopes accessible only by narrow switchbacks. The central highlands transition through coffee plantations and remnant jungle along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, where war-era paths now carry adventure riders through communities that existed long before the conflict and remain long after.

Southern routes stretch across the Mekong Delta’s waterways, where roads thread between rice paddies reflecting sky like fractured mirrors, and coastal highways reveal the South China Sea in sudden blue exposures around blind curves.

These routes span terrain that buses cannot reach and itineraries that tours cannot package. Overnight stays in stilt houses where dinner is whatever the family harvested that morning. Stretches of red earth backroads connecting villages whose names appear on no map. Mountain descents where fog obscures the valley floor until afternoon sun burns it away in slow retreat.

Each circuit, whether the Ha Giang Loop’s four-day mountain assault, Sapa’s terraced valleys, the North Loop’s limestone labyrinth, or the Ho Chi Minh Trail’s full-length north-to-south passage, delivers landscape that changes not gradually but in dramatic transitions that mark genuine boundary crossings between regions whose character differs fundamentally.