Want to know more about the White Thai in Mai Chau, come and join with us

Joining our Vietnam motorcycle tours to Mai Chau, you will have a chance to learn more about the White Thai ethnic group here.

To help you know more about the Thai people before starting your Vietnam motorbike rides, we would like to provide some information for you.

The Thai is the third largest ethnic group in Vietnam. In Vietnam, there are 2 different Thai groups: White Thai and Black Thai.

The Thai usually use bamboo to build their stilt houses. The roofs of the houses are traditionally thatch. Beneath the stilt houses, families keep their livestock and their looms. You will find stacks of colorful painted chests, mattresses, hand-woven blankets and pillows, rattan tables, bamboo stools, and numerous baskets in every Thai’s houses.

Mai Chau valley and its Thai ethnic culture and architecture has become a popular tourism destination. Vietnam motorbike tours to Mai Chau, where you will see a lot of Thai women on your way. Thai women are very famous for their beauty. Thai women are very easy to recognize because of their traditional dresses.  Thai women’s dress is a close-fitting skirt like a sarong and a blouse with silver clasps. The Black Thai make a traditional headscarf called a pieu. The pieu is a length of hand-woven black cloth, which is decorated with bright embroidery on either end. The black color is produced naturally from cham, or indigo. Another popular natural dye color is canh kien, which is a deep red color commonly used to make a cloth with supplementary weft called khuyt. Vietnam motorbike tours to Mai Chau, you will be very easy to recognize them.

Thai girls have to learn how to raise silk worms and to make natural dyes when they are very small. They are very skillful weaving and embroidering. If they want to marry someone, they have to make blankets, mattresses and pillow to bring to her new household.

In Mai Chau, you only see The White Thai who have a long tradition of weaving fine textiles for mattress covers and blankets. Like the black Thai they have also produces decorative pillows and trim for mosquito nets. Now women in many villages are using traditional skills to produce bright cotton scarves, the production of which has transformed the economy of their villages. Tourists of Vietnam motorcycle travel
come here like to buy the embroidered products for souvenir.

If you want to know more about the White Thai in Mai Chau, come and join with us for one of the best motorbike tours Vietnam with one night home-stay in Mai Chau.

Traditional unique customs and practices of the Black H’mong tribe are well-preserved in Cat Cat village

Sapa, Vietnam the home of many different hill-tribes such as the Black H’mong, the Red Dao, the Day, the Xa Pho…and there are many villages around the Sapa town you should visit. One of them is Cat Cat village.

Just about 1 km from Sapa town, you can easy to reach Cat Cat village by Vietnam Motorcycle Tours or just on foot, an age-old village of the Black H'Mong ethnic tribe. The local authority try their best to preserve the traditional unique customs and practices of the Black H’mong tribe here that are lost in many other villages. Rice and corn were grown in terraced fields, while traditional handicrafts such as twisting flax and weaving fabric have been well-kept.

Visiting Cat Cat, tourists will be impressed by the peacefully picturesque sceneries. What you can see during your adventure in Cat Cat village is a lively and unique colorful cultural picture. Many young women sitting by looms with colorful pieces of brocade decorated by hand with designs such as flowers and birds. The color used to dye these brocade fabrics is made from plants and leaves. And then they roll around and smooth section of wood covered with wax on fabrics to polish them, making their colors durable.

You can see that the Black H’mong girls wear a lot of jewelry. Many residents in Cat Cat are good at making gold and silver jewelry. Their products are fairly sophisticated, especially the jewelry for women. You can see many small wooden houses of the Black H’mong along the way, the houses have three rooms with three doors and covered with po mu wood roof. The walls are made from sawn timber.

It is also a good opportunity during your Vietnam motorbike rides to purchase some traditional souvenirs and handicrafts right from the craftsmen.

So, what you are looking for, both scenery and the local people, are all here in Cat Cat village. Join our Vietnam motorbike tours to this village to learn more a lot of things

Pha Din, the place where the sky meets the earth

Vietnam is very famous for it has many passes. Our Vietnam Motorcycle Tours will lead you to the Northwest of Vietnam where you can see a lot of beautiful passes. Northwest slopes are well-known for the rugged passes, favorite places for backpackers, especially the young ones, to discover through an off the beaten track Vietnam dirt bike tours.

Today, Vietnam Dirtbike travel will introduce you one of the most famous pass in the North of Vietnam: It is Pha Din pass, which is considered as the frontier between “Heaven and Earth.” and also the boundary between the two provinces of Son La and Dien Bien.

Known as one of the "four great passes" of the Northwestern region of Vietnam with total length of 32km. Pha Din, in the local language, means “Heaven and Earth” because, to them, it is the place where the sky meets the earth, at the highest point of the pass, 1.648m, compared with the sea level, visitors joining our Vietnam motorbike rides can have unforgettable experiences of the grandeur of nature between “heaven and earth”.

 1.000m, compared with the sea level.  One side is an upright cliff and the other side is a deep gulf. The Pha Din pass is always covered by clouds and at its foot there lie villages of ethnic minority groups. With it’s magnificent scenery, Pha Din is one of the most attractions in our Vietnam motorbike tours. The best time to spent some day tours in Pha Din is in spring. By this special time, you will have chance to see the valley in its new appearance, covered with pure white plum blossom.

Passing this mountain pass is a very interesting journey to a grandiose mountainous area for tourists who like adventures. Enjoying our motorbike tours Vietnam passing this mountain pass, you will have great opportunities to experience one of the most adventurous journeys, admiring imposing scenery and discover the daily life of the ethnic people. Oh, the tours are absolutely awesome.

Motorbike tours Vietnam are for tomorrow, now, it is the time to enjoy the dishes

Vietnam Dirtbike Travel is specialized in organizing custom Vietnam motorcycle tours covering every destination in Vietnam. All of our trips are designed to suit every rider with different preferences such as laidback sightseeing tours, intensive enduro tours and everything in between.

When riders first come to Vietnam, they really want us to provide some information about the food in Vietnam. Motorbike tours Vietnam are for tomorrow, now, it is the time to enjoy the dishes. What are the specialities?.

1.    Xoi:
Xoi is made from sticky rice and is commonly eaten for breakfast. Xoi can most cheaply be purchased from a street vendor. There are different choice for Xoi such as: Xoi xeo, rice topped with crushed yellow beans, crispy fried onion and pork floss plus a squirt of oil; xoi lac (with peanuts) and xoi do den (with black bean).

If you book hotel in the Hanoi Old Quarter, or need us to book the hotels before and after your Vietnam motorbike rides in this area, you can try it at one of the best restaurant named “Xoi Yen” at 35 Nguyen Huu Huan, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi. The xoi is served in a bowl and eaten with a spoon. Expect to pay 40,000 to 50,000 VND per pax. There are also Sweet versions of xoi: kem xoi — served with ice cream — and xoi dua, with coconut.

2.    Pho:
You can find “Pho” in many place in Hanoi. This hearty, noodle-forward meal is served as breakfast, lunch, or dinner in Vietnam. However, if you want to enjoy it, the best one is at No.10, Ly Quoc Su Str. “Pho” here is just as good or better than what you might just happen across elsewhere, and the hygienic standards are decidedly better.

Service is good and the menu's in both in English and Vietnamese. With a bowl of delicious Pho, the price will range from 30,000 to 50,000 dong, which isn't much more than on the street.

3.    Bun Cha
Bun Cha includes rice vermicelli, grilled pork and spicy, raw vegetables and well mixed fish sauce. The best place to enjoy the dish is No.1 Hang Manh, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi. For a dish of bún chả, you take a dish of rice vermicelli, a dish full of vegetables and a bowl of fish sauce combined with vinegar, sugar, hot chilly, garlic and pepper. You will find nowhere to enjoy this dish in your Vietnam motorcycle travel better than in Hanoi.

The sauce of the dish is very special for it is the mix of many different spices, so it contains essential tastes, sour, hot, salty and sweet. Grilles of well cooked pork would be opened and the contents dropped into the bowl of fish sauce.

There are two kinds of chả (grilled pork) used, depending upon the cut of the meat. If the pork is cut into small pieces, it is called chả miếng (piece of grilled pork). If it is minced prior to being shaped into small cubes, it is named chả băm (minced grilled pork).

You can enjoy these kinds of best street food in Hanoi before and after joining our Vietnam motorbike tours