North West Aggressive dual sport 4 or 5 days
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Summary
This tour is a fairly ambitious route that will take you a long way from civilization and into areas where locals have never seen a foreigner before, apart from Tigit Tours.
As you drive by, you will be met with wide-eyed amazement, cheers, and shouts from local kids and adults.
This is rural Vietnam, and it is unbelievably beautiful, but coming with that is hard driving and a lot of cliff edges.
Our tour is aimed at intermediate to experienced riders, but we can cater to fairly new riders, providing your attitude is good.
The tour goes through remote terrain, so we will have variable lunch hours or no lunches at all on occasion. The terrain is also very difficult to escape when things go wrong, such as if a bike has a breakdown. Therefore, fit and healthy adventure seekers with a good appetite for dealing with difficult situations is a must.
The reward is some of the best offroad riding in the world, some of the best scenery in the world, and, without a doubt, witnessing some of the funniest and best cultures in the world.
This is a tour you will never forget.
Watch the following video on our recommended motorbike choices and why we really don’t like 250cc+ motorbikes for this journey!
Tour Highlights
- Beautiful terrain, some of the best in the country
- Dinosaur backbone, walk it or drive it (if you are crazy enough)
- Plenty of cliff edges
- Hot Spring swimming
- River swimming if you like
- Offroad, more offroad and terrain you will have never seen before
Who this tour is for
Tour Guide Giang
With tour guide Giang, the route can be made relatively casual, and Giang combines a mixture of culture, swimming, scenic spots, and offroad into one tour. He is a master of manipulating routes to the client’s level and creating fun-filled action packed days.
Tour guide Ben
With tour guide Ben, the focus is on driving, and you will be pushed to your limits. Ben is a retired MX rider, and he will be teaching you along the way. Ben will also thoroughly entertain you with tricks, tips, and crazy stunts. He is very fun to watch when local villages and children go wild at his antics!
Needless to say, you will exit this tour 10 x the rider that you were when you entered. Ben teaches many driving techniques, and just watching his riding style will make you a better driver.
Learning to drive in one of the most beautiful places on earth whilst being deep in the wilderness is one amazing experience!
Tour Itinerary
Hanoi to Phù Yên
Mild offroad
- Meet at Tigit 8:00 and depart by 8:30am
- No escaping the reality that we must do some road to escape Hanoi
- We can offroad through Ba Vi National park
- We meander through road based national parks
- Hopefully an early lunch
- Afternoon filled with offroading, including one trail that has spectacular sunsets
- Hotel with softmatress and a BBQ style restaurant
Phu Yen to Ta Xua
Mild offroad to optional very hard offroad
- There is an area called Ta Xua, which is popular for Vietnamese tourism
- For beginner to intermediate riders we will do a loop that goes near to Ta Xua but doesn’t quite make it. We will then loop around to Ta Xua by road. The scenery regardless, is stunning.
- For intermediate riders to experienced riders, we will take a cliff edge oriented trail on a backway into Ta Xua. Doesn’t matter how much riding you have done around the world, this route will frighten you. The views are unreal!
- We stay in a town at the bottom of Ta Xua and eat at a local Vietnamese restaurant.
Ta Xua to Tam Tau
Beginner offroad, intermediate offroad or advanced offroad
- We start off the day with the Dinosaur backbone. Most people walk it, but some are crazy enough to drive it.
- From there we can do road to our hotel, and drop off the bag. We have trails that loop for hours around the hotel in beautiful terrain.
- More ambitious riders can go way off into the wilderness for views that make your mouth water. Although not massively difficult, it is so far from civilisation that the clients need to be good riders, fit, and healthy. There is very little out there, so if something goes wrong, the tour guide needs some support to get out of the wilderness.
- We finish the day in an amazing homestay with stunning views.
- We walk or drive down to the local hot springs for a swim. A perfect end to the day.
Tram Tau to Hanoi
Beginner, intermediate, advanced and the dam right insane
- For clients who are exhausted or newer to riding we can continue to do loops around the homestay before heading back to Hanoi.
- For intermediate riders we go hunting for a waterfall that requires some cliff edges to get to. Mostly tarmac, but still fairly knarly stuff.
- For the dam right insane, there are hiking trails through the mountains that kids use to commute between villages and schools. These go on for miles and miles, and very few riders have the skillset to tackle them. Even Tigit Jon has failed twice!
The drive back to Hanoi is a 4.5 hour grind into the city. There is no pleasant way back into Hanoi city.
Alternatively, we can arrange a truck (2.500.000vnd) and a taxi (2.500.000), totaling 5.000.000vnd.
Please note that this transition from bike to taxi is a quick one. We stop at the side of the road, change into the cleanest gear we have and jump in the taxi. There is no shower or other luxuries that take place with this system.
Tour Map
Tour Prices
Please read our full Tour Guide Disclaimer which describes all our terms and conditions for motorbike tours.
- Prices are in USD
- This is an all-inclusive tour
Duration : 3 day option, 4 day option (most popular), 5 day option.
Yamaha WR 155: All inclusive: 175 USD per person per day.
Minimum 2 riders per tour. For 1 rider, please read the rent a-guide section.
Trucks and taxi (optional)
If you wish to save the last day of driving back into Hanoi. We can arrange a truck (2.500.000vnd) and a taxi (2.500.000), totaling 5.000.000vnd.
Tour Info
Includes
- Motorbike Rental and Gas
- English Speaking Guide (1 guide for every 5 clients)
- Hot spring entrance ticket if we do this activity
- Private accommodation and no budget options
- All food
- Drinks (+ 1 welcome hotel beer and 4 beers at dinner)
- MX boots, Full Face Helmet, Water Bladder, Knee and Elbow Pads
- Damage Waiver (crashing the motorbike)
Excludes
- Personal Insurance
The Motorbikes we use
We use Yamaha WR 155 motorbike
- Weighing in at 134KG, they are lighter and have better power-to-weight ratios than 250cc dual sports.
- Rear tubliss tires equipped with Enduro tires for running at 0 PSI
- These motorbikes are the next best thing to a KTM. (not really a joke, the suspension actually works)
- Tigit sold off all our CRF 250’s as they were not good enough for Vietnam’s offroad terrain. The WR 155 is the right bike for this aggressive dual sport itinerary.
