An amazing cycling day!!

Feb 2023 • Couples

Review of: Bike from Dalat to Nha Trang

A fantastic day!! This is an amazing experience that first took us by car up the mountains over Dalat with stunning views. Then we hopped on comfortable bikes with our very friendly guide Vinh. It was the just the two of us and the guide, really ideal! One of us liked the uphill (at the start) and the flat (in the end) effort very much, and loved the intensity of the 3km slope taking us more and more into a cold and windy fog, only to then be richly awarded by the gorgeous landscape opening up when the fog dissipated on the way down. The other one in our couple is a fast descent rider, loving the thrill of the very, very long descent, but finding the hot flat bit in the end once you reach the coast more challenging under the sun. Overall, you should probably be in good shape and be ready both for cold and rainy, hot and sunny weather, but most of the day is definitely spent going downhill! During the whole time on the mountain winding road, I only counted 10 buses and about 5 trucks, and they and the few cars passing by were surprisingly respectful and slow, so no fear to be had about traffic. I felt safe and could really enjoy the experience the whole time. This is a superb way to break free from long distance bus and train rides in Vietnam, do some exercise, have some fun and take in the landscape!

an awesome biking trip

Review of: Bike from Dalat to Nha Trang

I’d like to highly recommend this beautiful area to cycle. It was a challenging itinerary for a biking beginner like me. On the way to Nha Trang from Da Lat , we passed by a national forest park with an awesome scene. Besides, the several uphill sectors made me almost gave up . Jack who is the tour guide had tried his best to encourage me, so I could completed the whole trip and enjoyed the great awesome view from the top of mountain. The bikes were pretty nice and in perfect working order. After all, even I finished this itinerary with my whole body sweating and sore muscles everywhere. I have to say it’s worth to have a great scenery like this.

We keep coming back year after year

We did our first adventures with PTV in 2011. Since then, we have come back to Vietnam in 2015 and again in 2019, always making sure to come back to Đà Lạt so we can do more adventuring with PTV.
Our trips with PTV are always the absolute highlight of our vacation in Vietnam. They provide the safest and most fun trips around. The equipment, service, and food is always top quality. The guides are super knowledgeable and genuinely nice, fun people. We always enjoy spending time with them.
This year (2019), we did Jungle Boogie trekking with Khanh and Northern Exposure mountain biking with Tuyến. In previous years we’ve done many other day trips with PTV: canyoning (twice), hike and kayak, white water rafting, bike and raft, and other mountain biking trips. All of them were so much fun! Experiences and memories to last a lifetime!
I am a beginner mountain biker. The Northern Exposure biking day (2019) was super fun for me; I was able to bike the whole trail and have a great time! It was challenging, but not so technical that I couldn’t do it.
Jungle Boogie (2019) is a great hike with beautiful scenery; it makes for an awesome, active yet chill hiking day.
We cannot recommend PTV highly enough. If you go to Vietnam, go to Đà Lạt and do some adventuring with the PTV crew! It will be the best part of your entire trip!

Canyoning

I could not recommend a day of Canyoning with Phat Tire Ventures highly enough. It was our first time doing such an activity so we were nervous about safety.

The equipment seemed very new and well maintained. Our guides Tuyen and Kanhn were so personable, spoke exceptional English explained each obstacle in great detail but also in a way which made us feel safe the whole time. 

To top it off we all sat together and had a lovely lunch to finish the day.

What a buzzz.

Canyoning tour

Awesome adventure for my 14 year old son and I with Phat Tire. The guides are amazing - patient instructors, committed to safety, and fun! All of the gear is top quality and in excellent condition. The guides are very experienced and love what they do. Highly recommended!

Hikiking, biking, canyoning - Phat Tire is Awesome:

Experienced, friendly, and safety conscious guides set phat tire apart from the other companies. We were traveling with an 11 and 14 year old. The bike from da lat to nah trang was really an experience. Kids made it the first 50 k then opted for the van after lunch. They had good books with them and didn't at all mind waiting for us to finish the ride!

Highly recommend phat tire.

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This was the first time my wife and I had properly abseiled and we had the time of our lives! My wife was concerned about the safety standards but she was put quickly at ease as our guides were very professional and spoke English well....More

Just went canyoning,myself plus girlfriend, with phat tire and cannot recommend the company and tour more. Most people go to Da Lat to see the waterfalls, and why just look at em when you can rappel down and jump in! Guides were real professional, knowledgable...More

Best thing I did in Vietnam. We rode on quiet roads first over Hai Van pass through rainforest with great coastal views then a van transfer through the busy roads to the next section where we rode on narrow concrete paths past farming and fishing...More

We have just completed a 5 day cycle from Hoi An to Nha Trang. Phat Tire exceeded our expectations on every step of the trip. Tao our cycle guide spoke excellent English and paced the ride incredibly well. Through out the trip he was informative...More