3-Day Motorbike Tour from Dong Hoi to Hue via Phong Nha and Khe Sanh

• Pick up from the agreed spot and ride up to the East Ho Chi Minh Trail through local villages, passing rice fields as well as rubber and pepper plantations.

• Continue to Paradise Cave and explore geologically significant karsts that have been forming here for the past 400 million years. Trek 1.5 km through the area, take beautiful pictures, and enjoy the cool, fresh air inside the cave.

• Head to a local restaurant and enjoy a meal of BBQ meat and rice.

• Visit Dark Cave, where you can indulge in fun and challenging activities such as zip-lining, mud bathing, trekking in the cave, or kayaking and swimming in the Chay River.

• In the evening, ride back to Phong Nha town to relax and enjoy local Vietnamese life with beer and BBQ.

• After breakfast, start the journey from Phong Nha village and ride to Khe Sanh via the West Ho Chi Minh Trail - a favourite stretch of road among bikers. The Ho Chi Minh Trail is a legendary route, known as the road from which the Vietcong used to supply arms to the south during the Vietnam War.

• Travel along the banks of the Son River to the top of the national park, an area full of rice paddies and farmland cultivated by local farmers. Ride the first 100 km through old-growth jungle with amazing waterfalls and beautiful landscapes, and explore the backdrop of Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park and the West Ho Chi Minh Trail, a remote area that tourists do not usually get to see.

• Stop at a Van Kieu ethnic hill tribe village to see and understand how these people survive in one of the most remote places in Vietnam.

• Continue riding before stopping at another village for a scrumptious lunch.

• After lunch, ride another 100 km south to the town of Khe Sanh. Continue to follow the legendary Ho Chi Minh Trail through the tops of the mountain range and fantastic valleys, with stops at historic relics from the Vietnam War along the way.

• Visit the Khe Sanh compass base before checking in at the hotel.

• Upon arrival at the hotel, relax and enjoy a cold beer while toasting to a fantastic day of adventure.

Overnight stay in Khe Sanh.

• Set out early in the morning for the ride towards Hue. You will mostly travel from west to east along Highway 9, passing famous Vietnamese war sites such as Dakrong Bridge, Rock Pile, and the Doc Mieu base.

• Visit the Truong Son National Cemetery, the biggest cemetery in Vietnam, to pay respects to the soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the Vietnam War.

• After crossing the former border between North and South Vietnam at the 17th parallel, arrive at the Vinh Moc Tunnel, where villagers dug tunnels 23 meters underground to move their village and survive during the war.

• Stop for lunch at Cua Viet Beach and go for a relaxing swim.

• Drive along the coastline and arrive in Hue at around 4:30 pm.