CYCLING FROM SOUTHERN VIETNAM TO CAMBODIA - 15 Days - From $ 1,760 | VIETNAM CYCLING | CYCLING ADVENTURE VIETNAM

Trip Price Included:
English Speaking tour guide and group medical kit.
All standard accommodations base on twin-share.
Meals detailed in the itinerary (14 breakfasts, 11 lunches, 7 dinners)
A/C transfers and transportation.
Boat trip from Chau Doc to Phnom Penh
Boat trip in Can Tho
Speed boat from Kampong Chhnang to Siem Reap
Mountain bicycle with mechanic.
Sightseeing excursions as outlined in itinerary
Pump, bike tools, and spares tubes.
Spare bike.
Cold-water box, small fresh towel.
Mineral water drinking.
Seasonal fruits.
Snacks

Trip Price Excluded:
International airfares
Travel insurance and bike helmet (compulsory)
Items of a personal nature
Alcoholic beverages and soft drinks
Mineral water beyond that supplied
Optional excursions
Additional transport required due to any emergency
Personal expenses such as telephone and laundry bills
Visa fees
Departure taxes

DETAIL ITINERARY:

Day 1: Arrive Ho Chi Minh City
up on arrival at Tan San Nhat Airport, you are met and transferred to hotel. Ho Chi Minh City is a center of commerce, finance, culture and tourism in Vietnam. This bustling metropolis, contradiction of its northern counterpart, is crowded with bikes and motorbikes, excited by numerous shopping area and sidewalk cafés. (If time permits) we stroll around the downtown to explore the different local ways of life. Overnight in Saigon.
Today dinner included

Day 2: Ho Chi Minh - City Tour
We are departing today for the Reunification Palace, the former Presidential Palace for the president of the South of Vietnam. After that, we will visit War Remnant Museum, where you can see countless artifacts, photographs and pictures documenting about the second Indochina war. Before our lunch, we stop at Notre Dame Cathedral and Old Post office to get our good shots for our memory of the biggest city in Vietnam. Our delicious lunch will be served at a “Pho 2000” restaurant in the central city.In the afternoon, we will visit Ben Thanh market, Cho Lon, Chinese town and market.
Today Breakfast, Lunch included

Day 3: Ho Chi Minh City-Long An My Tho- Ben Tre-Tra Vinh (80km cycling)
After breakfast, transfer a couple of hours out of Ho Chi Minh City to Long An . Lunch break at My Tho. Pedal narrow roads and lanes, past banana plantations, fields of sugar cane, through the lush green landscape of the Delta, crossing rivers and canals by numerous, ubiquitous, fascinating ferries. A section of biking cuts off road onto gravel and dirt lanes, and weaves around hamlets, across water channels and through quite dense vegetation. This makes for superb biking. A final ferry across the gaping expanse of Co Chien River leads us to Tra Vinh, a pretty tree lined town with a large population of ethnic Khmer.
Today Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included

Day 4: Tra Vinh - Can Tho (82km cycling)
The route is peaceful, the road narrow and very pretty all the way to Can Tho. There is plenty along the way to see, from the contrasting architectural styles of ethnic Khmer homes, to the numerous colorful Khmer temples and to the fascinating river scenes witnessed when pedaling over countless small wooden plank bridges. Visit Ba Om Pond with its magnificent lotus flowers, and observe local women having their future predicted in the small temple nearby. En route, spend time at a local Khmer Temple School and learn about the life of the students.
Today Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included

Day 5: Can Tho
today is easy day for us by taking a boat trip Visit floating market of Cai Rang, it take a few hours in the morning. The rest of the day is relaxing.(Today Breakfast included)

Day 6: Can Tho -Rach Gia    (110km cycling)
After break fast we start cycle along canal to Vih Tanh. Lunch break. Afternoon cycling via Go Qua to Rach Gia. Tonight we stay in Rach Gia town
Today Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included

Day 7: Rach Gia- Ha Tien    (92km cycling)
Leaving Rach Gia quietly by Cycling along the west coast to Ha Tien town. This is the bottom of Vietnam, on the way we can see the Hon CHong and swim on little beach before we reach hotel in Ha Tien. Tonight we stay in Ha Tien town.
Today Breakfast, Lunch included

Day 8: Ha Tien- Chau Doc     (100km cycling)
Cycle along VinhTe border canal to TriTon, we stop over for short visit to BaChuc ossuary well known as killing field in Vietnam, followed by a ride up the sacred Sam Mountain with its panoramic view over the vast plains of the Mekong Delta and far into Cambodia. O/N in ChauDoc
Today Breakfast, Lunch included

Day 9: Chau Doc - Phnom Penh   (no cycling)
Depart early for the boat journey up the Mekong River to Phnom Penh (take water, food, book etc for your approx 6hr journey). Once arriving at the pier at Chau Doc you will say Goodbye to your Vietnamese guide & bikes and cruise up the Bassac River for approximately 1hr to the Cambodian border. At the Cambodian border, the boat crew will obtain your visas on your behalf (you will need a spare passport photo, fill in a form and pay the $20 visa fee). This process will take about to half an hour. The boat will then continue to take you upstream to Phnom Penh, where you new Cambodian team will be ready to greet you with your new bikes. You will then continue your journey into Cambodia & Phnom Penh. This capital city was once considered one of the most beautiful in the Orient, and despite its recent turbulent history, it retains a colonial charm. After lunch at the atmospheric Foreign Correspondent’s Club and you will transfer to Cambodia’s killing fields. Later this afternoon you will transfer to your hotel where your bikes will be ready for you to fit and check. Overnight in hotel.
Today Breakfast, Lunch included

Day 10: Phnom Penh     (no cycling)
In the morning, we start the tour with Silver Pagoda located in the Royal Palace Enclosure and the Royal Garden, the Silver Pagoda is so named because of its floor, which is made up of 5000 silver tiles, and each tile weights 1 kilogram. The treasures include a solid gold Buddha encrusted and weighing 90kilos and a small 17th century emerald Buddha, After that we visit The National Museum, built in the Khmer style in the 1920's has an extensive collection of Khmer art. The highlight of the exhibit is the artifacts from the pre-Angkor period to Angkor period. Before lunch, we also visit the Wat Phnom, widely acknowledged as the site of the foundation of Phnom Penh. Where you can enjoy views over the tree-lined avenues of Phnom Penh. We have lunch in the restaurant.
In the afternoon, we visit The Tuol Sleng Museum, also called Museum of Genocide where we can understand more about the most tragic part in Cambodia history. From 1975 until 1979 it was Khmer Rouge's main torture and interrogation center, gaining the acronym 'S-21'. From here the victims were taken out and executed in what is now known as the Killing Fields. Follow by that we visit the Victory monument and the Russian Market. The trip concludes.
Today Breakfast included

Day 11: Phnom Penh - Kampong Chhnang    (91km cycling)
We depart in the early morning by bike and we head north on National road N5 via the ancient Japanese bridge and start traveling through the Cambodian countryside. You will share the road with light local traffic and get a good sense of what Cambodian transportation actually is. After 12Km you get to Prek Phnov and at the junction we left turn to unpaved roads passing local villages and rice fields. We pass the ancient capital of Udong where Udong Mountain is still home to many of the old Royal Palaces. We pay a visit to one of the remaining stupa’s and after a visit you will ride on the paved road heading north-west to Kampong Chhnang.
It is located 91 km North of Phnom Penh. The area is scenic and if you cross the river, you will find several ancient temples from the Chenla period, such as Samrong Sen and Prasat Prah Srey. You will get great views of the countryside and for sure will meet hordes of people welcoming you with a broad smile and a “Hello Mr.!” quote. Overnight in Kampong Chhnang.
Today Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included

Day 12: Kampong Chhnang - Siem Reap    (no cycling)
Speedboat to Siem Reap. About 4 hour’s .Cycle to town and than Angkor Thom, Angkor wat and Sunset Today Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included

Day 13: Angkor Temple Complex: Angkor Thom and Ta Prohm.    (40km cycling)
Today, after breakfast, we will start our visit of the amazing temples complex of Angkor. We will begin to explore the complex of Angkor Thom. Angkor Thom was built by King Jayavarman VII at the end of the 12th century, a short while after the completion of Angkor Wat. Angkor Thom, which means “Great City”, is surrounded by a massive perimeter wall and a moat with five monumental gates and covers an area of more than ten square kilometers. The most important monuments are located in the centre of the city, namely the Bayon, the Baphoun and the Terrace of Elephants. The Bayon is a fascinating piece of architecture and one of the most photographed. It is a bizarre structure, with a total of 54 towers elaborately decorated with 216 enormous and enigmatic smiling faces. The numerous other structures of this fortified city are the Terrace of the Leper King, the Phimeanakas, Preah Palilay, Tepranom, Preah Pithu, North & South Kleang and Prasat Sour Prot. Then, we will visit Ta Prohm. The principal singularity of Ta Phrom is that it has not been cleared from the thick jungle, as the rest of the Angkor Complex has been. It looks nearly the same as in the descriptions of the first French explorers, shrouded in undergrowth and in the huge roots of old Banyan trees.Then we go back to hot air balloon station where we can ride a stable hot air balloon for a truly memorable sunset look over one of the Wonder of the World, Angkor Wat. Overnight in the hotel in Siem Reap.Today Breakfast included.
Today Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included

Day 14: Angkor Temple Complex: Banteay Srei temple and Angkor Wat (40km cycling)
In the morning we we have a journey of 25km to Banteay Srei temple (the Woman temple) which regarded as the jewel in the crown of Classical Khmer Art. Then we drive back to Siem Reap for our lunch.This afternoon we will visit Angkor Wat. Angkor Wat is located about six kilometers north of Siem Reap, south of Angkor Thom. Angkor Wat was built in the first half of the 12th century (113 – 5BC). It is a largest monument of the Angkor Group and the best preserved and it is an architectural masterpiece. Its perfection in composition, balance, proportions, relief’s and sculpture make it one of the finest monuments in the world. In the end of afternoon, we will enjoy sunset at the hilltop temple of Phnom Bakheng. Overnight in the hotel in Siem Reap.
Today Breakfast included

Note:
This itinerary allows for seven field days on the cycling section, a cycling distance of around 550km. You will be able to decide for yourself at any time during each of these days how far you want to cycle. Average daily cycling distances are approximately 60 -100 km. These distances may vary according to weather, road conditions and group fitness and preferences. This is a sightseeing cycle tour, not a marathon or time trial.
Please be aware that flight times, hotels and all other services and days of travel are subject to availability. Where flights are cancelled or delayed, Viet Vision Travel will endeavor to secure alternative arrangements of similar value as noted in our booking conditions.
This quotation for all year round. Any bookings made after this date are subject to change, as local economic conditions require.
The overnight sleeper trains used on this trip, although comfortable, they cannot be compared to those of European standard. Please note that while we always endeavor to secure soft sleeper berths on overnight trains there may be occasions when we are unable to do this due to circumstances beyond our control. In these situations we will secure the best available class.
The traveling times mentioned within this dossier are approximations only. These times will vary according to weather, road, traffic or any other prevailing conditions.
This itinerary and supplementary information has been complied in good faith and was accurate at the time of writing. However it DOES NOT form part of a contract between the client and Viet Vision Travel.

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