Travel to Cat Ba island in weekend by motorbike

Cat Ba island is located in the Southeast of Hai Phong city. The island is an ideal place for a memorial backpacking motorcycle tour in Vietnam.

Cat Ba island has sea, forests and passes, therefore, you can absolutely discover this island by motorbike because of convenient system of roads and ferries.

How to get to Cat Ba island?
From Hanoi, you can get to Cat Ba by 1 of the 2 following ways:
First way: From Hanoi, you can ride Vietnam motorcycle tours to National road No.5 Hanoi – Hai Phong to reach Dinh Vu ferry station. The distance from the ferry station to Cat Ba island is 130km, therefore, you have to catch the two different ferries, so it takes a little bit much time. The first ferry is from Dinh Vu station to Ninh Tiep (Cat Hai island) and the second ferry from Got ferry station to Cai Vieng to reach Cat Ba.
Second way: You can ride along the National road No.18 via Bac Ninh province and Hai Duong province to Ha Long city. From Ha Long, you can catch a ferry at Tuan Chau. Although the distance is longer, about 150km on the way of your Vietnam motorcycle travel but you have to take  only 1 ferry to reach Cat Ba island, so it takes only 40 minutes.

What to eat and where to sleep
Cat Ba island started to develop tourism from long time ago; therefore, all the tourist services are available. There are so many hotels and resorts in this island, so our tourists joining Vietnam motorbike rides and very easy to reach the beautiful beaches and famous landscapes on this island.
The island is a paradise of seafood, so you can enjoy different kinds of seafood here. However, to have cheap and fresh seafood, you can ask the hotel staff to cook for you. In Cat Ba, you should try Tu Hai, octopus, Cat Ba shrimp noodle soup, squid…

Vietnam motorcycle tours’ itinerary in Cat Ba
Cat Ba has both forests and sea; therefore you will have many choices for you trip. To discover the whole island, you should spend from 2 to 3 days.

First of all, spending 1 day to discover Cat Ba national park, the biosphere reserve of the world is good. This is the primary forest on the island, in the form of unique and rare park in the world. A lot of foreign tourists choose Cat Ba National Park for an ideal trekking spot. You should come here to enjoy the fresh and cool air on the island and enjoy the unspoiled scenery.

The beaches in Cat Ba island is so wonderful that can captivate all travel enthusiasts. The most popular beaches are Cat Co 1 and Cat Co 2.

The 2 beaches have blue clear water, strong waves and soft white sand stretching till the high cliffs near the sea.

Interestingly, the two beaches have beautiful trails through the cliffs which are very close to the sea. You can walk along the trails there to see the beaches and stunning coastline below. It is also one of the special features in Cat Ba point that you can not find in anywhere else.

Besides the very close beaches, you can rent a boat to visit Lan Ha Bay - equally beautiful Halong Bay, then can kayak on the bay with hundreds of islands and islets around, visit and experience the monkey Island…
Besides, Cat Ba also has many interesting place that you should not miss such as Café Bastion where you can have the island panoramic view from above to the lighthouse, fishing villages along the bay or visit some Floating Fish Houses. Here are all new experiences that you can have in this Vietnam motorcycle trip.

Cat Ba island is well-known as a pearl island in Hai Phong city. It is not difficult to make up a plan for Vietnam motorbike tours to this island.

5 reasons that you should visit Hoi An in rainy season

Hoi An is a must see destination on Vietnam tourist map. This beautiful ancient town has 2 distinctive seasons. The dry season from January to July and rainy season from August to December, and it rains mostly in October and November.

Tourists love coming here because the old town looks fantastic in all seasons; however, riding Vietnam motorbike tours to Hoi An in rainy season is a great experience to any rider. Not noisy and animated as in summer, Hoi An in rainy season is very peaceful and quiet.

And here is 5 reasons that you should visit Hoi An in rainy season:

Cheap accommodation
Hoi An has a lot of amazing hotels, and home-stay with variety of prices. Because it is rainy season, hotels and home-stay prices are reduced to very reasonable prices to attract more customers. Home-stay is about 200,000vnd and hotel room is from 400,000vnd. It is very important if you can save more money for the Vietnam motorcycle trip to Hoi An.

Cool and comfortable air
In the North of Vietnam, the weather in winter is very severe with prolonged cold spell; however, the weather in Hoi An is much more comfortable. To tourists who love to discover Vietnam by taking part in motorcycle tour in Vietnam but afraid of the coldness in the North and the heat in the South, Hoi An is an ideal place.

Enjoy the peaceful old town, no hustle and bustle of tourists
Because it is not tourist peak season, most of tourists visiting Hoi An is international tourists. Rare domestic tourists come here this time. Therefore, the ancient town is not so crowded and becomes very quiet. Tourists will feel very comfortable to walk or ride bicycles to discover the hundred-year-old town. Although you do Vietnam motorbike tours from Hanoi to Hoi An, but you should not discover this town by motorbike because you will break the quietness of the ancient town.

You can see many couples hand in hand walking under the small drizzling rain in the romantic atmosphere of rain and aloeswood smell. So, it is easy to understand why famous foreign magazine has voted for Hoi An as one of the top 10 most romantic destinations and also worth for your Vietnam motorbike rides in the world.

A walk by the winter sea

Enjoying the feeling of being the only person in front of the immense sea, or sitting in a coffee shop which is located near the coastline, drinking a cup of hot tea, reading book, enjoying the cold and salty air atmosphere is one of the most interesting feeling of tourists when doing Vietnam motorcycle tours to Hoi An.

Discover the town by boat
Lying at the Thu Bon river downstream, in rainy season, many areas in Hoi An town are underwater. Hoi An look even more attractive in rain because of the luxury sadness of the old town and night rain.

In the flooding season, you can see many foreigner groups renting boats to start their adventure of visiting the old town. They can stand long in rain to take photos of green moss roof of the old houses that they can not be easy to see in the other places. Rainwater is on their faces but they all look very excited when sitting on the boat to discover all small streets. To foreigners, travel is to experience the new things.