North West Vietnam Motorbike tour offroad

It takes around two hours to truly leave Hanoi city. There is no way around this. Use these two hours to get used to the machine because we quickly find ourselves in a remote jungle, where clever locals have secret trails through a national park.
This means the terrain goes off the map, and we find ourselves alone in a jungle.

When we hit civilization again, we drive along tarmac roads along pretty little villages.

A few hours later, it is time for some very challenging terrain to make the customer understand that Tigit is serious about offroading. However, much to your surprise, you find out that this section of brutal offroading is actually relatively short, and it isn’t long before we connect back to roads.

The day finishes with a spectacular offroad drive into Phu Yen, views you will never forget, and you will be begging for more.

By road Phu Yen to Ta Xua is around a 40 minute drive. But we are taking the backway into Ta Xua, and that means climbing into the clouds on steep but spectacular terrain.

We will pass through some major dam and construction projects as we go. Witness locals go about farming and run into villages that rarely see a foreigner.

The day closes with the famous dinosaur backbone, which you can choose to hike, or if you are brave enough, you can drive it.

This is where the three and four-day tour options part ways. If you choose the three-day route, you will be going directly to Nghia Lo.
For Tigit Jon and his Enduro crew, Nghia Lo is “packs off heaven”. We check into a hotel, leave all our gear, and proceed to do all the trails around the area. A guide can have you lost in this area for days; there is no shortage of phenomenal trails.

The four-day route will continue to Son La City and goes into areas of Vietnam that Jon thinks he is the first white guy to have driven through! There isn’t any infrastructure for the entire day and nothing on the map.

However, the trail between Ta Xua and Son La is relatively busy, with plenty of remote villages going about their daily lives. These villages are not really connected to mainland civilization, though; there are no real roads in the area at all.

To connect back to mainland civilization, we take a very small boat over a very large river!

It is probably the best drive on the tour, and for many people, it will be the best drive of their entire lives. It is hard to top a day like today.
We do single-track trails through stunning corn fields before connecting into a single cement track that winds over a very large mountain. Only in Vietnam would you find a piece of road engineering this bizarre.

We see plenty of rickety wooden bridges and a few river crossings.
This is the kind of day where the terrain changes each hour, and there are so many small obstacles that you go to bed with everything in your mind being one big blur of fun. “What did I just do?”

If time allows, the tour comes to a two-hour road drive between Mu Cang Chai and Nghia Lo, basically the only road section on the entire tour!
If you make it to Nghia Lo, you will be rewarded with a hot spring bath.

There is no pleasant way back into Hanoi city, but we do have trails that can break up the drive a bit. In terms of road, it is around a five-hour drive.

Alternatively, we can arrange a truck (2.500.000vnd) and a taxi (2.500.000), totaling 5.000.000vnd.

Please note that if you choose the truck and taxi option, we will not charge tour guide or bike rental fees on this day.