CAT TIEN NATIONAL PARK CYCLING TOUR

(2 days, 1 night of Cat Tien National Park Cycling Tour)

Booking Code For Cat Tien National Park Cycling Tour: SBL15B

Day 1: Sai Gon – Cat Tien National Park. (L, D)

07.30 Departure from your hotel. Take us about 1.5 hours to get out of the busy traffic and head on to Vinh Cuu district of Dong Nai province.

09.30 Start cycling ~35 km on quiet countryside road to Cat Tien park. This forest area used to be the headquarter of the Vietnamese army during the war. We arrive at the ranger post, meeting our Cat Tien park ranger, transfer luggage & water to our 4WD Jeep, then climb up the challenging slopes, 20 km up and down.

Be careful: wild elephants!! We are cycling through the elephant activities area, so we should keep together and following the instruction of our leader.

Picnic lunch break. We keep on cycling to Ta Lai ethnic minority village, then going through the buffer zone to headquarter of Cat Tien park. Maximum cycling distance today ~75 km.

Day 2: Ficus Benjamina route (Cay Si) – Trek – Saigon. (B, L)

07.00 Start cycling 16 km through the forest to Dak Lua area. From here we start trekking 2 km to this interesting eco-system of semi-evergreen forest and wetland-flooded-evergreen forest: the Ficus Benjamina group. Located in an area of 3 ha, the highest level belongs to the family of Moraceae (Dau tam) such as F. Benjamina, Fracemora, Flacourtiaceae, Hychaearpus etc.

The trek path has a lot of steep rocks – a product of volcanic craters million years ago.

We also see huge trees of Lagerstroemia ovalfolia and several kinds of birds.

Then we cycle 16 km back, with a short stopover Cycas rumphii (Thien Tue), Ancistrolandus tectorius (Trung quan), Afzelia cyclocarpa (Go), and Ben Cu rapids.

Shower & late lunch at park centre, ferry crossing the river. We goodbye Cat Tien park, transfer by car to Saigon.

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CYCLING CAT TIEN – BAO LOC – PHAN THIET – MUI NE

(3 days, 2 nights of Cat Tien National Park Cycling Tour)

Booking code: SBL15C

Day 1: Sai Gon – Cat Tien National Park. (L, D)

07.30 Departure from your hotel. Take us about 1.5 hours to get out of the busy traffic and head on to Vinh Cuu district of Dong Nai province.

09.30 Start cycling ~35 km on quiet countryside road to Cat Tien park. This forest area used to be the headquarter of the Vietnamese army during the war. We arrive at the ranger post, meeting our Cat Tien park ranger, transfer luggage & water to our 4WD Jeep, then climb up the challenging slopes, 20 km up and down.

Be careful: wild elephants!! We are cycling through the elephant activities area, so we should keep together and following the instruction of our leader.

Picnic lunch break. We keep on cycling to Ta Lai ethnic minority village, then going through the buffer zone to headquarter of Cat Tien park. Maximum cycling distance today ~75 km.

Day 2: Ficus Benjamina route (Cay Si) – Dak Lua – Bao Loc. (B, L, D)

07.00 Start cycling 16 km through the forest to Dak Lua area. From here we start trekking 2 km to this interesting eco-system of semi-evergreen forest and wetland-flooded-evergreen forest: the Ficus Benjamina group. Located in an area of 3 ha, the highest level belongs to the family of Moraceae (Dau tam) such as F. Benjamina, F racemora, Flacourtiaceae, Hychaearpus etc.

The trek path has a lot of steep rocks the – product of volcanic craters million years ago.

We also see huge trees of Lagerstroemia ovalfolia and several kinds of birds.

Then we continue 5 km to the ferry, crossing Dong Nai river and cycling 2 hours more to highway 20. Lunch break & swim by Dam’ri stream.

We have ~35 km to go on highway 20 with a challenge climb up +10% at Bao Loc pass. Total cycling today about 90 km. O/N hotel in Bao Loc town (alt. +850m).

Day 3: Bao Loc – Da Mi – Ma Lam – Phan Thiet – Mui Ne. (B, L). End Of Cat Tien National Park Cycling Tour.

08:00 Start cycling outside the town, then gradually down to Loc Nam, we have 10 km climb up Mt pass, then mostly going downhill to Da Mi reservoir and to Dong Giang village. Swim & picnic lunch en route. In the afternoon, we keep on 30 km down the hill through the forest to Ma Lam. Our van picks us up for transfer to Phan Thiet and Mui Ne. Total cycling distance today about 90 km. Tour ends in Mui Ne.

B: Breakfast.
L: Lunch.
D: Dinner.

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