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Our Cycling Route Through Vietnam

March 11, 2025

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Our Cycling Route Through Vietnam

Our Cycling Route Through Vietnam

The map above shows the route we cycled through Vietnam. We entered Vietnam from the northern border with China and exited firstly into Loas and then to Camboda in the south west.

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Vietnam is quite an easy country to bike tour through, the roads are excellent (much like China) and the road side facilities such as shops, restaurants and hotels are plentiful.

The north of Vietnam is much cooler than the south and rain showers are not uncommon. We spent a couple of weeks in Hanoi in January and we were wearing long trousers, fleeces and coats. This is not to say it was “freezing” but at night especially there was a chill in the air.

As you progress south the temperature slowly increases and by the time you reach Ho Chi Minh it’s unbearably hot.

We ended up visiting Vietnam 3 times in all, firstly we entered from China and exited into Loas before later returning back from Laos much further south. After re-entering from Laos we made it down to Nha trang when the covid pandemic went into overdrive and we were forced to go home as everyone was closing their international borders.

In 2025 we returned back to the exact hotel we left from in Nha trang and continued our journey. Quite a few things changed in Vietnam while we were away, most notiably there are far more cars on the roads in 2025 than in 2020 and I’m happy to report that people in Vietnam now take much better care of dogs. Gone are the packs of stray dogs that would regularly chase us and in their place are dogs appropriately contained inside peoples properties or kept on leads.

The roads in Vietnam are well built for cycling, nearly all roads have a dedicated shoulder for motorbikes and bicycles which allows you to keep away from the much faster moving trucks, cars and buses. However you always need to keep an eye and an ear out for the buses because those drivers are absolutely insane.

Before visiting Vietnam we had heard several stories of police “corruption” involving foreigners, however we did not experience any of that. If you follow the rules of the road you should always be fine in Vietnam. Many other road users do not follow the rules and frequently ignore traffic lights, direction of travel, etc. My recommendation is not to follow what they are doing and do what you know if right.