9 Days fully guided, off-road motorbike tour on the Ho Chi Minh Trail crossing Vietnam and Laos

This carefully planned adventure crossing Vietnam into Laos, include handing permits nd all essential. We are specialized on cross border motorcycle tour and this is one of the set departure tours we run. Highlights of this adventure includes, Hoi An, the Plain of Jars and ride across the war era trail across Laos.

Off-road through remote mountain ranges, jungle trails, and traditional hill tribe villages as we take on some of Indochina’s most untouched terrain aboard the reliable Honda CRF300L.

• Start: Danang, or Hoi An, Vietnam
• Finish: Ride through Laos, then finish at Hanoi, Vietnam
• Skill Level: Intermediate and up

Note: It is only possible from December through to mid April, as rain plays havoc with the trails and river crossings during other months.

9 Day Vietnam and Laos Motorbike Adventure through the Ho Chi Minh Trail

Day 1: Danang or Hoi An to the border

Note: You should be in Hoi An or Danang (These two town are apart for 30 min ride) a night earlier, as this is the first day of the ride.

Get together around 8 am, a short brief about the ride and the route before heading west toward the Bo Y border. Today’s ride is about riding the central highlands, mouton roads and some dirt trail ride passing through the sleepy town of Kham Duc.

We arrive later in the afternoon at the border town of Ngoc Hoi in Kon Tum province.

• Accommodation:Hotel in Ngoc Hoi town

Day 2: Crossing into Laos – Make it to Sekong via Attapeu

After a leisure breakfast, we ride towards the international border to cross into Laos side.

Time for visa application, border permit and entry work along with the bike inspections, after an hour or so, we good to go to ride through the raw beauty of Southern Laos. Mountain landscapes, wild forests and dirt trails all the way. We stop at Attapeu for lunch and will be in Sekong around late afternoon.

• Accommodation: Hotel in Sekong

Day 3: Mouang Nong via Salavan & Ta oi

We star the day with a leisure time for breakfast before start the roaring engines of CRF300L and ride through the dirt and dust trails toward Salavan, then Ta Oi and finally the small minority town of Mouang Nong.

This is a very different approach to the southern Laos remote trails passing through jungle-covered routes.

• Accommodation: Hotel in Mouang Nong

Day 4: Xe pon to Vilabuly

Start the day by visiting a village and the nearby Lam Son War Museum, which exhibits the weaponries used on operation 719 along the Ho Chi Minh Trail during the bloody war days. There are documented references about military vehicles, weapons, great source of photographs from surrounding battlefields.

After the visit, we start the ride through the outbacks of Laos through rice paddies, lush forests and rivers to reach Villabury, another town where you see Laos’s life by locals

• Accommodation: Hotel in Villabury

Day 5: Vieng Thong via Thakhek

A delightful day up through the infamous ‘Chokes’, a series of interdiction points heavily bombed during the war, past minority villages that still contain many war relics, through the heavily bombed Chokes area of the Trail, past beautiful karst mountains and lovely scenery, before we know it, we’ll be sitting comfortably by the banks of the Mekong River, enjoying the afternoon in the former colonial town of Thaket, enjoy the lunch before arriving at the town of Vieng Thong.

• Accommodation: Hotel in Vieng Thong

Day 6: Plain of Jars site

Today’s ride taking us through some of the most beautiful mountain roads of Laos. We depart and take the roads to visit an archaeological site of Plain of Jars, a mysterious site dating back to millennium. After the visit, we drive toward the Phonsavan where we check in for an overnight stay.

• Accommodation: Hotel in Phonsavan

Day 7: Sam Nuea

Getting closer to the border with Vietnam with a ride through the red dirt trails of Laos through Sop Lao all the way to the border town of Sam Nuea. Arrive by late afternoon, check in and rest.

• Accommodation: Hotel in Sam Nueau

Day 8: Crossing border back to Vietnam

Today ride is about crossing back to Vietnam through a very small border gate. After border formalities, we take the backroads toward Mai High where we lodge for an overnight.

• Accommodation: Resort in Mai Hich

Day 9: Hanoi

Enjoy one final ride through the spectacular landscapes of Mai Chau and Hoa Binh before reaching into the Red River, where we end the adventure by an off-road through the banana forests.

Arrive, end o the 9 days adventure through the Ho Chi Minh Trail from Vietnam to Laos

9 day Vietnam / Laos Cross Border Ho Chi Minh Trail Expedition on CRF300

Start: Danang, or Hoi An, Vietnam
Finish: Ride through Laos, then finish at Hanoi, Vietnam
Skill Level: Intermediate and up

The Riding Overview & Tour Highlights

We’ve tailored and specially crafted this trip as a true adventure, as something pulled off a map and designed based on our local knowledge. It’s a custom built ride deep through the Ho Chi Minh Trail parts of Laos and Northern Vietnam, that most tourists will never get close to.

Laos is wild, raw and full of dirt trail ride. It feels exactly what every adventure rider would need. You’ll ride through places like, Sekong, Mouang Nong, Salavan, Xepon, Villabury, Vieng Thong, Phonsovan, Xam Nua , Mai Chau or Pu Luong and end the adventure in Hanoi.

Riding across these mazing trails, linking up mountain tracks, jungle sections and remote backcountry that keeps things interesting the whole way.

We start from Hoi An and once crossing into Laos, things change upside down. Around Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos, the riding opens up and flows, finishing strong into Northern Laos.

We keep it flexible. We adjust as we go to make sure you get the best riding experience. This is why riders book with us. You’re not just following a route, you’re riding something we’ve built from experience since 2013, and that’s what makes it different.

• Jungle riding, river crossings and mixed terrain
• Small villages where life hasn’t changed much
• Local towns, markets and real on-the-ground experiences
• Long dusty days backed up by a experienced support and a cold beer at the end