5 Must see destinations in the Middle of Vietnam

In the past, the Middle of Vietnam is very poor and even hard to grow anything, but now, it has become so attractive destination to domestic and international tourists. Although it is not endowed as much as the North and the South of Vietnam, it still owns so many amazing places that you still want to come back to visit in your motorcycle tour in Vietnam.

Must see destinations in the Middle of Vietnam
The following five scenic spots are not only endowed with beauty of the Creator but also harbor many cultural values of Vietnam traditions within. Especially all of these destinations have been honored to be recognized by UNESCO as world cultural heritage sites.

Citadel of the Ho Dynasty (Vinh Loc district, Thanh Hoa province)
Vietnam Motorcycle Tours will start from Thanh Hoa, the origin of Bronze drum Dong Son. When you have a chance to visit Thanh Hoa province, please do not miss the Citadel of the Ho Dynasty in Vinh Loc district, about 50km from Thanh Hoa city. In the period of 1398 to 1407, UNESCO has described Citadel of the Ho Dynasty as the magnificent work of large stone art, the combination of unique traditional building in Vietnam in particular and Southeast Asia in general.

Phong Nha – Ke Bang National park (Quang Binh province) 
The complex of Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park stretches over 4 districts of Quang Binh: Quang Ninh, Bo Trach, Tuyen Hoa and Minh Hoa districts. From the center of Dong Hoi city, you just ride Vietnam Motorbike trip for about 90 minutes to get there. In addition to the value of geology, topography and geomorphology, the Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park also attracts tourists by the magnificent scenery with pristine nature formed in over millions of years.

Hue ancient capital (Thua Thien Hue province)
The Vietnam Motorbike Tours to the dreamy land of Hue would not be complete without visiting the ancient capital. It consists of three buildings to be nested as Citadel, Imperial City, and Forbidden City. This architectural complex is considered as the symbol of ancient and modern beauty of Hue. It carries within itself the intangible value when witnessing the rise and demise of the Nguyen Dynasty.

Hoi An ancient town (Quang Nam province)
Hoi An in the past was a trading center and now, it still almost intact in its buildings ancient architecture. This scenic destination is not only the most attractive tourist spot in the Middle of Vietnam but also the big pride of the local people in Quang Nam – Da Nang. It is the truly evidence of interference between ancient culture features and modern Western oriental features. .

My Son sanctuary (Quang Nam provine)
If you do not know anything about My Son sanctuary, you should book Vietnam Motorcycle Tours to this scenic beauty because this is one of the main temples centers of Hinduism in Southeast Asia and it is a unique heritage of its kind in Vietnam. Although nature is pretty much devastated the sanctuary, overall it is still quite untouched. These relics left over today reflect the level of architecture and sculpture of the Cham people in particular and Southeast Asia in general at the time was very sophisticated.

Things that you should bring when joining our motorcycle tours Vietnam

Here are some things that you should bring when joining our motorcycle tours Vietnam.

1. Bluetooth Headset

Adding a bluetooth headset to your helmet is both easy and fairly cheap. Adding the ability to have turn by turn navigation or to talk with your buddies when your gas light comes on or when you're looking for a bite to eat when you pull into town is well worth it.

2. Ear Plugs

Most of riders never like riding without ear plugs. They are ESPECIALLY nice for road trips. It's amazing how loud the inside of a helmet can be, and subjecting your ears to that for hours on end can lead to a greater level of fatigue much faster than when wearing ear plugs. Plus, if you're using a good bluetooth headset, it helps to diminsh some of the tingy sound of the cheapish speakers.

3. Second Pair of Gloves

There is NOTHING worse than soaking a pair of gloves and having a long day of riding ahead of you. Anytime you go on any kind of Vietnam motorbike tours, you should always take a second pair of gloves (usually to fit some other kind of temperature range). Your hands and neck are two of the biggest places where you can control your body temperature and having the appropriate gear for both is very important.

4. A Physical Map

Yes, please use online maps whenever you are planning motorbike tours in Vietnam. That doesn't mean that won't leave you stranded when you make a wrong turn and don't have service, which is why it's important to always bring a physical map. Their maps are designed for motorcyclists, by motorcyclists and are the best resource for the best roads for any kind of riding and they include some of the best places to stop along the way.

5. Tool Kit

Motorcycles break. It's part of life and being a motorcyclist (even if you're a journalist and spend most of your time on new bikes). Another part of motorcycling is riding for pleasure, which often includes remote and deserted roads. Combine the two and you have a wonderful recipe for sitting on the side of the road. We take a small toolkit anytime we venture away from our day to day riding, and we recommend you do the same. Ride something that isn't new? That toolkit is as necessary as your helmet.

6. Cash

Some places in the Vietnam motorbike rides don't accept credit. It's just silly not to keep a decent amount of cash on you should you need to buy something in some remote area that doesn't take card or need to bribe someone to open early, stay late, or help you out in whatever sticky situation you've gotten yourself into.

7. Battery Pack

If you're reading this and under 30, you probably feel the need to Instagram/Tweet/Facebook every single part of your trip. If you're over 30....I don't know, we're all too immature to act like real adults but I'm sure you have to check in with someone to let them know you're ok or heading home or something. Either way, having your cell phone or bluetooth headset die mid trip is a bummer when you get into a new town.

8. Headlamp

Well sometimes those things happen at night. Make sure you have some spare batteries as well.

9. Another things that you find them necessary

A towel, bandana, good book, sense of adventure, rain gear, fishing pole, visor cleaner, a support truck with a spare bike, a hat to hide your helmet hair, a fake mustache, and whiskey (for after you've finished the day's ride obviously)…

Bring them from your country when joining our Vietnam Motorcycle Tours for they are better in quality than you get them from Vietnam

Today, we will introduce you about the funeral of the Red Dao

One of the main reason for customers who want to book our Vietnam motorbike tours is that they want to learn more about the traditional customs and habits of the local people in the North of Vietnam to have the best adventure.

After hard day Vietnam motorcycle tours, they always spend their days on walking around to see more and learn more about the ethnic hill tribes. Sapa attracts visitors a lot for it has a beautiful scenery and friendly people. And you will find many Red Dao women who come to center town for working and selling things.

Today, we will introduce you about the funeral of the Red Dao, and you will learn more during your Vietnam motorbike rides:

In every funeral, there is always a man who called thay tao playing an important role in the funeral. Any family has a death, the family members of the death will invite him to supervise the rituals and fine a piece of land for the grave. The deceased will be wrapped in a mat and placed in the coffin inside the house. Then it is carried by strong men to the grave which built of earth and lined with stones. In many different places where the Read Dao live, the dead body is cremated if the deceased is older than 12 years old of age. Funeral rituals will be celebrated to ensure that the deceased rests in peace. It will be taken in many years after the burial. The ceremony usually coincides with initiation rites for a Dao man of the family. Each celebration will be lasted for at least three days. The first day is to liberate the spirit of the deceased (which like the death will break from jail. The second day is to worship deceased in his/her house.

The last day is for the man’s initiation rite take. It is so special and so different from other hill tribes is that the man has to sit on a throne at the highest place in the village until he falls into hammocks hanging below him. This represents him falling down from the sky to be born on earth, another symbol of the Dao belief that they are the direct descendents of God.

For more details, join our motorcycle tours Vietnam and you can asked directly about the Red Dao funeral procedure.

Long Tong festival

By joining one of our Vietnam motorcycle tours, you will be a part of helping maintain the Vietnam’s Nature and Traditional Villages. It’s a great participation of cultural exchange and an insight view on Vietnam lifestyle.

Today, we would like to introduce you one of the biggest and most important events of Lang Son, Lao Cai, Cao Bang, Tuyen Quang..., the provinces in our Vietnam motorbike rides. It is Long Tong festival held annually on the 4th day of the year (according to Lunar Calendar).

Although the festival has different names in different places in these provinces, it has the same procedures and parts: worshiping the God of agriculture, traditional games, folksong singing contests, etc. Most of local people here live on agriculture so this festival is mostly to thank for the God of agriculture. the God of agriculture is the one who looks after the fields, gardens. He can conjure up the wind, the rain to make a bountiful harvest and give the villagers a peaceful year.

First, Pu Mo, the head of the festival worships the gods and the kings in the main temple of the village. After that, he leads the people of the village to the paddy fields to worship the God of agriculture. Here, people prepare many gifts such as fresh fruits, wine, boiled chicken, and other traditional dishes to send to the God and pray for the good crops.

After the worshiping, local people gather to enjoy the food and after that it is the time for traditional games. Occasionally, people even invite the Lion dance team from adjoining villages to take part in a contest. They believe that if a lion comes in the spring, good luck and wealth would come to the whole family during the whole year

Joining our Vietnam motorbike tours in the time of the festival to learn more about the tradition and culture of the local people in the North of Vietnam.

Vietnam is a just small country in the Southeast Asia but owns a lot of World Heritage Sites

All our customers for Vietnam Motorbike Tours agree that Vietnam is a beautiful lush country offering a rich variety of historical sites, sounds, cultural traditions and friendly people for its visitors. From the French Colonial architecture to the intriguing scent of the Perfume River, from to the hustle and bustle of the markets in Saigon to the war memorials, Vietnam has much to be discovered especially with Vietnam motorbike rides. As you know, Vietnam is a just small country in the Southeast Asia but owns a lot of World Heritage Sites. Vietnam is a country of tourism. From the North to the South, any province has its own advantages to attract visitors.

Today, we would like to introduce you the list of World Heritage Sites from the North to the South of Vietnam as follows:

1.    Dong Van Karst Plateau Geo-park.
2.    Buddhist Sutra Woodblocks of Truc Lam Zen
3.    Xoan singing
4.    Worship of Hung King.
5.    Quan ho Bac Ninh folk songs.
6.    Ha Long bay
7.    Trang An landscape complex.
8.    Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long – Hanoi.
9.    Stone stele records of royal examinations of the Le and Mac Dynasties.
10.    Giong Festival at Phu Dong and Soc temples.
11.    Ca tru singing.
12.    Imperial Records of Nguyen Dynasty.
13.    Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park.
14.    Complex of Hue Monuments.
15.    Nha Nhac, Vietnamese Court music.
16.    Hoi An Ancient Town.
17.    Mỹ Son Sanctuary.

18.    The Space of Gong Culture in Central Highlands.
19.    Woodblocks of Nguyen Dynasty.
20.    Don Ca Tai Tu.

Please come and join the adventure with us for one of the most Vietnam motorcycle tours in your life. Sure, with our beautiful landscapes especially of the World Heritage Sites, you will have a good deep impression of our country.

Kinds of flowers that used to decorate Vietnamese houses in the occasion of Tet holiday

Our customers booking Vietnam motorbike tours were so surprised with the beauty of our country, especially, flowers everywhere. Today, we would like to introduce you 2 kinds of flowers that used to decorate Vietnamese houses in the occasion of Tet holiday.

Peach Blossoms in the North of Vietnam:

Symbolic of the Lunar New Year that you can easy to see in your Vietnam motorcycle travel, peach blossoms are an essential part of the Vietnamese folklore and heritage. The peach flower plant grows only in North Vietnam. It is the special flower of the Vietnamese New Year because of its red colour, which is believed to bring many favourable opportunities throughout the year. The other main reason is the characteristics of the plants because they grow well in cold weather. Northern people say that peach flowers blossom in spring – during Tet holidays while most other flowers still stay silent, symbolizing the strong vitality and a brave heart.

You can visit Nhat Tan (Hanoi) where the delicate art of growing the trees is passed from generation to generation.

Apricot Blossoms in the South of Vietnam

if one does not have Apricot blossoms in the household during the Lunar New Year celebrations then that means they have not really prepared for Tet. The golden yellow of the flower means the noble roots of Vietnamese (folktales said that the ancestors of Vietnamese is a couple of dragon and fairy). In addition, the high rate of blossom of the flower in Tet holidays also symbolizes the wealth and passionate love among people. Although apricot blossom are planted mostly in the southland, now you can easily buy one in Hanoi when doing Vietnam motorbike rides in this city. Apricot blossom is more commonly used for this ceremony in the South because of the warm weather. The value of these flowers is determined by the number of petals - the more petals, the more expensive the flower.

Lunar New Year or Tet is a fete of the family, and the time for family members to gather at home to enjoy warm atmosphere. Enjoy this wonderful time with us when traveling Vietnam motorcycle tours.

Pieu scarf of the Thai women is a specialty of their costume

Vietnam Motorbike Tours with us to the North of Vietnam, you can sometimes meet some Thai people on the way.  Every ethnic group of Vietnam has its own cultural identity which presents via daily activities, customs, especially costumes. To Thai people, the identity is known for the traditional scarf Pieu. Pieu scarf of the Thai women is a specialty of their costume.

It takes about two or four weeks to complete a scarf Pieu because Thai girls only embroider it when they have free time. Therefore, if you want to buy the scarf when doing Vietnam motorbike rides up North, you have to pay more money for it than to buy the other popular scarves. The basic material is cotton thread. Every step of the process of making pieu scarf is done by hand, from spinning and dying to weaving and embroidery. Since early childhood, these women have been taught how to weave brocade. A Pieu scarf is also a mark of skill. Most Thai ethnic girls at 15-16 years old have to embroider their own Pieu scarves to prepare for future marriage because the Pieu scarf is a gift the bride must give to her groom’s family, so the Khan Pieu is like a connector of Thai boys and girls. Perhaps in the thought of Thai people, a beautiful scarf Pieu is the standard to evaluate the quality of Thai women; hence, from young children to the elderly, they all may embroider impressive Pieu scarves.

Using yarn to make the decoration patterns, each has their own style depending on their view of the world as well as their characteristic. When Thai girls embroider their scarf, they often copy other designs, make their own changes, or create completely new designs according to their creativity. Simple designs are worn for everyday working and doing the chores, while more elaborate versions are worn for festivals that mark the defining stages of life. The scarf’s patterns feature animals such as deer, butterfly, bird, elephant or tiger, the moon, and trees such as fern. These same patterns are also seen on the hems of Thai costumes. The colors and unique patterns are cleverly combined. It is the blue of the mountains, sunshine yellow, white and pink rice cultivation of fragrant flowers. With rich color in each pattern, scarf pieu be regarded as gods protect the soul every Thai woman.

Besides conquering new routs of motorbike tours Vietnam, our customers also want to buy souvenirs for their family and friends, scarves Pieu is considered as a good choice.

Learning a lot of traditional customs and habits of the local people is the main reason that makes our Vietnam motorcycle tours become so amazing.