Best Vietnam Adventure Tours

When it comes to adventurous tours, Vietnam has a lot to offer due to its various amazing landscape and cultural wealth:

• Varied geography: Featuring both lowlands and mountainous regions, the country will provide adventure seekers with exciting activities and one-of-a-kind experiences.
• Countless adventurous activities: You can enjoy many thrilling activities such as rock climbing, canyoning, biking, ziplining, kayaking, hiking, and water rafting.
• Captivating sceneries: The country processes different enchanting natural beauty from North to South that will amaze every traveler right at first sight.
• Diverse culture: With 3 distinct regions, Vietnam is considered a worth-visiting destination to discover, from its long history to lifestyles, customs, and traditions.

Vietnam offers a wide range of adventurous activities, such as:

• Mountain Biking: There are many biking routes from easy to hard levels in mountainous places in the North, allowing adventurers to discover natural sceneries.
• Motorbike Loop: Famous for its extreme motorbike loop, Ha Giang is an ideal spot for experienced motorcyclists due to its challenging drive and thrilling experience
• Trekking: North Vietnam offers active travelers many trekking routes to remote hill tribe villages to witness breathtaking terraced rice fields and local lifestyles.
• Rock Climbing: If you love climbing, you can consider some exciting tours in several famous destinations of Vietnam, including Huu Lung, Cat Ba, and Quoc Oai.
• Water Rafting: Though this is quite a new and interesting water-based activity in the country, you can still try exhilarating whitewater rafting in Da Lat and Nha Trang.
• Kayaking: This is the most popular aquatic game in Halong Bay, Ba Be Lake, as well as famous beaches like Phu Quoc, Mui Ne, Nha Trang, etc.

Overall, adventure tours have 3 levels, and this is the first thing you should notice before joining any trip, in order to see if the journey is suitable for you. :

• Easy: Suited for everyone. It simply takes you to walk for 2 - 3 hours at a moderate pace with intermittent pauses, travel trails in excellent condition, and at a relatively low height.
• Moderate: You have to hike for 4 hours at a moderate pace with stops, greater heights, and rough terrain during the trails. The trip may combine with climbing or camping outdoors.
• Challenging: Hikers will spend 5 - 7 hours covering 12 - 20 km daily with high, uneven terrain, and may sleep outdoors in low temperatures (usually multi-day excursions).

Here are our recommended tours with different levels from easy to challenging:

Vietnam is a worth-visiting country for every adventure seeker as the country offers many things to explore, from significant landscapes to rich culture and hospitable people. Here are some best places in the country for thrilling adventure tours: 

• Northeast & Northwest regions: With challenging landscapes, North Vietnam is a popular destination for adventurous trips, where you can join various exciting activities, including trekking in Sa Pa, biking in Ha Giang Loop, kayaking in Ba Be Lake, etc.
• Quang Binh: This province is where the famous Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park is located, allowing every thrill seeker to try a huge range of stimulating sports - trekking, kayaking, and ziplining.
• Hoi An & Da Nang: You can book a walking tour around the ancient Hoi An Town at night to witness this alluring town decorated with colorful lanterns, and head to Da Nang (42 km from Hoi An) for beach relaxation and water games like surfing and parasailing.
• Da Lat: If you love aquatic activities, Da Lat can be an excellent choice since the place has numerous intense things to do - hiking, water rafting, and canyoning.
• Ho Chi Minh City: As the ‘city that never sleeps’, Sai Gon’s traffic is quite chaotic, renting a motorbike and passing by every nook and cranny of this vibrant city will be the most adventurous way to explore the city you should not miss.
• Phu Quoc: Famous for the endless coastline of pristine beaches, Phu Quoc Island offers a diversity of experiences possible for adventurers, including snorkeling, scuba diving, sailing, and night fishing.

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