VIETNAM BIKING TOURS

Vietnam biking tours are the best way to explore wonderful nature in Vietnam. Vietnam Biking Tours will let travelers enjoy the most of beautiful countryside, landscapes in Vietnam. Vietnam Biking Tours also let travelers get close to local people and experience their daily life. 

VIETNAM BIKING TOURS

Truong Van Phuc has travelled to the northern provinces of Viet Nam by motorbike with his friends many a time. However, a 15-day Vietnam Biking Tours from Ha Noi to Ca Mau, the southernmost point of the country recently made the 24-year-old fall in love with Vietnam Biking Tours.

Borrowing a giant bike from a friend he met on Facebook, Phuc replaced the old or broken parts, and prepared the itinerary and expenditure for hí Vietnam Biking Tours.

The Thai Binh-born packed two sets of clothes, a repair kit and backup inner tubes on the back of the bicycle, and headed south with his friends on their Vietnam Biking Tours.

For him, this Vietnam Biking Tour was an opportunity to see the beauty of the country and meet locals in every place he set foot in. Phuc chose the itinerary of Vietnam Biking Tours based on his personal interests.

"I do not think that Vietnam Biking Tours like these are to conquer nature or something like that. Like Edmund Hillary, who is the first mountaineer to reach Mount Everest, said: ‘It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves,'" he said.

"I used to travel by train and by motorbike but with these two means of transportation, sceneries glide past so quickly that we miss the beautiful moments. Moreover, Vietnam Biking Tours increases our physical strength as well as challenges our perseverance and skill to solve break-downs on the road."

Phuc did not run into trouble on the road on his Vietnam Biking Tours, but the inner tube of his friend's touring bike broke a lot on their Vietnam Biking Tours because there were small rocks and sharp objects, sometimes even nails, on Vietnamese roads.

However, that was only a tiny part of their Vietnam Biking Tours, and could not diminish the excitement of the bikers. They had received a lot of support from friends and locals who he had just met on Facebook. Phuc still recalled that on numerous occasions they reached home at 11pm, when their parents would be waiting for them to have dinner.

Phuc, who is on an internship with Talisman Energy Inc. in Malaysia, intends to buy a new bike this month and improve his physical strength by Vietnam Biking Tours on short-distance trips and slopes around Kuala Lumpur. He will travel from the Malaysian capital to HCM City by bike in 20 days in September.

Earlier, in 2008, Nguyen Hoang Long took Vietnam Biking Tours more than 1,700km from HCM City to Ha Noi along with two friends. The Hanoian chose the itinerary for their Vietnam Biking Tours because "they would have driving power to pedal from there to get home".

However, he made one big mistake for his Vietnam Biking Tours. At the end of the year, the wind blows from north to south, and cyclists have to pedal upwind. This led to him falling off the bike when cycling from Khanh Hoa Province's Nha Trang to Binh Thuan Province's Phan Ri. He received six stitches, and the scar is still on his leg to remind him of Vietnam Biking Tours.

After the 15-day Vietnam Biking Tours, Long decided to join the Emong Group, which has about 50 members, and connect with others who shared his desire of Vietnam Biking Tours. Since then, he has taken part in various Vietnam Biking Tours with his friends in the group, but has never cycled across Viet Nam again.

Long, who is now an administrator of the Emong Group's forum, said that they only considered the bicycle as a means of transportation and regarded the feeling of bikers on the Vietnam Biking Tours as more important. He urged cyclists not to go beyond their limitations, and relax when they felt very tired during their Vietnam Biking Tours.

"Young people often like conquering the challenges. However, Vietnam Biking Tour is a trip, not a race. Our objectives are to enjoy cycling and completing the journey of Vietnam Biking Tours," he said.

Long said that during Vietnam Biking Tours, people should use mountain bikes for their trips and only need to bring necessary items such as two sets of water-resistant clothes, a bike repair kit and a medical kit. According to him, for those who want to take Vietnam Biking Tours, they should cycle every day to help their muscles get used to it.

Asked why a bike is the best choice for Vietnam Biking Tours, Long said, "Cycling does not make loud noises and that helps bikers hear birds and the winds sing. It is not as fast as travelling by motorbike and not as slow as going on foot. With a bike, tourists can pedal and enjoy the beauty of the areas around while taking Vietnam Biking Tours," he added.

He once took a Vietnam Biking Tour to Tay Con Linh, one of highest mountains in the north of Viet Nam. Although, sometimes they had to carry their bikes and walk through the grass and trees, all the members enjoyed themselves cycling on dirt roads and seeing clouds floating around them and liked Vietnam Biking Tours very much.