One day to join an on-road motorbike tour Vietnam to Perfurm pagoda

If you have only one day and want to join on-road Vietnam motorbike tours, ride to Perfume pagoda is a good choice.

The Perfume Pagoda, known locally as Chua Huong or ‘inner temple’, is located in Huong son (Perfume mountain), My Duc hamlet in the province of Ha Tay, sixty kilometres southwest of Hanoi the Red River Delta where steep-sided limestone hills rise from the paddy fields. This place is one of  Popular Destinations for motorbike tour in North Vietnam. It comprises a complex of pagodas and Buddhist shrines built into the limestone cliffs of Perfume Mount.

At the heart of this complex lies the Perfume Temple or Perfume Pagoda in the Huong Tich Cave. Inside the cave are many statues carved from green stone which decorate an intricate shrine, including one of Lord Buddha and another of the Buddhist goddess Quan Am. The legend declares that the site was actually discovered over 2,000 years ago by a Buddhist monk who meditated nearby. There are many pagodas to visit in this vietnam motorcycle travel, each offering a different shrine, most of which are Buddhist although one or two are animist.

The very first starting point of the pilgrimage is Ben Duc (Pier Duc). Normally, it takes more than 2 hours for motorbike tour in North Vietnam to ride from Hanoi to Ben Duc. One-hour boat ride on the Yen Vi Stream from Pier Duc is actually the highlight of the trip, and inspiration sources of quite a few famous poets. Sitting on the wooden or iron boat o reach the temple complex and enjoying the surrounding landscape, you may feel that the stream is endless. If you are short of time its best to head straight to Huong Tich Cave, not visit other pagodas along the stream. The next point of interest would be a visit to Thien Tru Pagoda (chùa Ngoài – Outer Pagoda). Thien Tru Pagoda is famous for Thuy Tien tower, a granite monolith. Coming here, the pilgrims have chances to admire the pagoda’s beauty and wonderful local landscapes. After that, pilgrims would climb up hundreds of stone steps, and then down 120 stone steps to Huong Tich Grotto.

Perfume pagoda is not only a religious site, but a great sight-seeing spot in Vietnam as well, so you will never regret if joining our tours  to visit this sacred land. Many customers choose bus tours, however, Vietnam motorcycle tours to Perfume pagoda would be the best.

O Quy Ho, the highest pass in Vietnam, connects two northern provinces of Lao Cai and Lai Chau

Our Vietnam motorbike tours Vietnam to Sapa will lead you to O Quy Ho, the highest pass in Vietnam and it connects two northern provinces of Lao Cai and Lai Chau. Pass O Quy Ho is one of the supply lines pass long and dangerous and the most majestic mountain in northern Vietnam. O Quy Ho Pass running around Hoang Lien Son Mountain Range, so It is also known as Hoang Lien Pass, but travelers having a strong love for the Northwest region prefer using the name O Quy Ho. O Quy Ho was used as the name for the wild mountain pass that is 2,000 meters above the sea level.

Only traveling by joining motorbike tour in North Vietnam, you can have a chance to stop and enjoy the stunning scenery here, feeling like a bird and looking at the sea of cloud beneath your feet. Tourists can also admire the breathtaking Fansipan – the rooftop of Indochina. O Quy Ho Pass, the unorthodox “King of Northwest Pass” holds the record for a length of up to 50 km and the top of the pass at an altitude of nearly 2.000 m, known as “Heaven Gate”. The pass encompasses two thirds of Lai Chau’s Tam Duong District, and one third of Lao Cai’s Sapa District.

O Quy Ho Pass is a major challenge for long-distance riders. If you are novice and joining our Vietnam motorbike tour, you will find the roads dangerous, deep abyss in one side and other side, high mountains. However, if you are confident and overcome fears and ride through the pass, you will have the opportunity to admire the clouds floating like a fairy realm.

Coming to O Quy Ho in the afternoon always brings peace to tourists. That is not important at all wether you start from Binh Lu or Sapa, tourists themselves are taking part in a seesaw with the sun and enjoying colorful sunset behind the mountains on the horizon.

If you can not wait to discover our longest and highest pass in the North of Vietnam, do not hesitate to contact for the best Vietnam motorcycle tours of your life.

Sitting at a street corner of Ta Hien in Hanoi old quarter with a beer glass

Before joining our Vietnam motorbike tours, our customers always spend at least one day free to discover Hanoi. And a frequent question is that: Can you recommend some interesting places in Hanoi?

And the place we highly recommend is Ta Hien street. This small street in the heart of Phố Cổ – ‘the Old Quarter’ – hosts dozens of sidewalk ‘bia hoi’ (draught beer) so it attracts many customers, especially who are intending to join motorbike tour in North Vietnam. Sure, sitting at a street corner in Hanoi old quarter with a beer glass, chatting with your freshly made friends while watching people pass by might be one the most memorable pages in your travel journal.

It is very good for Ta Hien is the first street that backpackers visit when they arrive in Hanoi and the last place they see before they leave. Although the Old Quarter is a very center and also the place where all services are mainly for foreigners with hotels, restaurants, shops…and you can pay in US dollars, Australia dollars, Thai bat…, however, to visitors, Ta Hien is always the most attractive point with “bia hoi”. The street corner of Ta Hien street and Luong Ngoc Quyen are very crowed from morning to late evening, before doing vietnam motorbike rides, you should go there for beer. It is for walking only so no cars, no motorbikes. You can drink very cheap draught beer of 3000 to 5000/glass – very cheap, eat with some snack and cheap street food and chat with your friends. It is customary for Vietnamese to have beer with boiled or roasted peanuts. Try it and love it

The Ta Hien bia hoi sites become more and more crowded as the night grows late. The restaurants here are very small so many customers cannot find a free seat, so they have to stand and wait for others to leave.

Sure, after coming back from hard day motorbike tours Vietnam, you will come here to drink some beer and enjoy the atmosphere here.

For the bia hoi here is very famous, so the sellers can sell over 100 liters of beer per evening. Though all the bia hoi venues are small and cramped, the young Westerners like them very much and pass along their favorite addresses.

Drinking beer is your favourite, so please do not wait to contact us for the best Vietnam motorcycle tours. Just come and we will treat you some beer in Ta Hien street.

The Flower Hmong and their unique culture will continue to bloom well into the future

Motorbike tours Vietnam to the North of Vietnam, you will see a lot of different minorities. One of the ethnic minority groups that our customers feel most excited to see in the Vietnamese Highlands is the Flower H’mong when they ride Vietnam motorcycle tours there.

Do not like Black H’mong, the Flower H’mong are called that because of their multiple-colored outfits. The Flower H’mong’ is one of the numerous sub groups of the H’mong ethnic group, originally from southern China.

The Flower H’mong inhabit both sides of the Chinese and Vietnamese border and are largely undocumented. Motorbike tour in North Vietnam will help you approach many H’mong people. The clothes made by Flower Hmong are mainly distinguished by their use of deep indigo and brown. The decorative patterns are ornate, delicate and harmoniously combine batik motifs, intricate stripes and sophisticated appliquéd dots. The name Flower H’mong alludes to the wealth of colour and texture of their intricately woven costume consisting of layers of skirts, embroidered tops, and a pillbox hat or scarf, all of which wonderfully represent their history and culture.

At first glance when doing Vietnam motorcycle travel up North, the bustling markets of Bac Ha and Can Cau recall a medieval age. Closer inspection reveals them to be thriving modern tribal institutions featuring a unique interpretation of the latest fashions and trends. With luck, the Flower Hmong and their unique culture will continue to bloom well into the future.

Please join Vietnam Motorbike Tours to Sapa and from there, take a little time to visit Bac Ha and Can Cau market, you will meet many Flower H’mong people there. They are very easy to be recognized.

The village of Ban Pho in Bac Ha town is the home of Flower H’mong. Sure, you will learn more about the culture and habits of this minority than only their cloths, especially how they make the best rice wine in the area.

Mèn Mén is made from glutinous corn through many stages

Joining Vietnam motorbike tours to Ha Giang, please remember to enjoy Mèn Mén, A Unique Dish here. This dish is made from glutinous corn through many stages to create corn meal which is then steamed. After many processed stages, Mèn Mén became a very unique and attractive dish with nutty and greasy flavour. Enjoying hot “Mèn Mén” is wonderful. And you should chew it properly to feel its sweetness.

Not hard to do but yeast (Mèn Mén) requires elaborate and time consuming. To cook Mèn mén, each Mong family has to steam Mèn Mén from early morning for the whole day. Processing Mèn Mén requires much time with steps: split, grind corn into flour and sift to remove corn skin. It is required 2 times of steaming. In the first steaming, corn flour absorbs water to keep the flour non – glutinous. After that, the flour is left to get cold before the second steaming. “Mèn Mén” was regarded as the main dish of ethnic highlands that you should try in your motorbike tour in North Vietnam because this dish was made from corn, a kind of food available.

If you ride motorcycle tours to the North of Vietnam right in the festivals, holidays or fairs of the H’mong, you can see that Mèn Mén is an dispensible dish of Mong people.

“Mèn Mén” is enjoyed in different ways in different highland provinces. Mèn Mén is a dry dish; thus, a bowl of soup is necessary in the meals (such as pumpkin soup, soup of chicken or cabbage soup).You can enjoy it with pumpkin soup when do Vietnam motorbike rides. In Lao Cai, “Mèn Mén” is served with bean brain and Bac Ha  corn wine. In all festivals, holidays or fairs of the H’mong in northern highland, this unique dish can not be missed.

Please do not hesitate to ask us any questions about Vietnam motorcycle tours. We are very happy  to ride with you to all of the worth to see places in Vietnam.

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