Da Lat Easy Riders: Motorbike Tour with Mr. Nghiep

7 stops · ~75 km loop · pickup at the hostel

A first-timer's day: the zen monastery and its lake, the mosaic pagoda, the old station and a pine-forest valley out of town.

1. 1

   Truc Lam Zen Monastery

   A peaceful hilltop monastery with flower gardens and big views over Tuyen Lam Lake. Cover shoulders and knees.

2. 2

   Tuyen Lam Lake

   A pine-ringed lake right below the monastery: still water, cool air and the best photo of the day.

3. 3

   Coffee plantation

   Walk between arabica bushes, see how the beans are dried and roasted, and taste fresh Da Lat coffee, weasel coffee included.

4. 4

   Linh Phuoc Pagoda

   Da Lat's mosaic pagoda: walls, towers and a 49 m dragon covered in broken pottery, glass and beer bottles. Climb the bell tower for the view.

5. 5

   Old French railway station

   The 1930s art-deco station with vintage steam locomotives on the platform. Great photos.

6. 6

   K'Ho minority village

   Meet a family of the K'Ho, the native people of the Lang Biang plateau, and see how they live, farm and weave.

7. 7

   Cu Lan village

   A green valley in the pine forest with wooden houses, a lake and a stream, far from the city noise.

7 stops · ~65 km loop · pickup at the hostel

For culture lovers: three very different places of worship, then the French-era tea hills on the high plateau.

1. 1

   Truc Lam Zen Monastery

   A peaceful hilltop monastery with flower gardens and big views over Tuyen Lam Lake. Cover shoulders and knees.

2. 2

   Tuyen Lam Lake

   A pine-ringed lake right below the monastery: still water, cool air and the best photo of the day.

3. 3

   Coffee plantation

   Walk between arabica bushes, see how the beans are dried and roasted, and taste fresh Da Lat coffee, weasel coffee included.

4. 4

   Cau Dat tea hills

   Rolling tea plantations started by the French in the 1920s on a high plateau. Walk the rows of tea and sip a cup with the view.

5. 5

   Linh Phuoc Pagoda

   Da Lat's mosaic pagoda: walls, towers and a 49 m dragon covered in broken pottery, glass and beer bottles. Climb the bell tower for the view.

6. 6

   Cao Dai Temple

   A colourful temple of Caodaism, Vietnam's own faith that mixes Buddhism, Taoism and Christianity. Look for the all-seeing Divine Eye. Next door to Linh Phuoc.

7. 7

   Old French railway station

   The 1930s art-deco station with vintage steam locomotives on the platform. Great photos.

9 stops · ~65 km loop · pickup at the hostel

The countryside up close: coffee, flowers, silk, crickets and rice wine, Elephant Falls and the Happy Buddha, then real-life Mario Kart and the Mongo Land rainbow slide.

1. 1

   Coffee plantation

   Walk between arabica bushes, see how the beans are dried and roasted, and taste fresh Da Lat coffee, weasel coffee included.

2. 2

   Flower farm

   Greenhouses full of the roses, chrysanthemums and hydrangeas Da Lat sends all over Vietnam.

3. 3

   Silk factory

   Watch cocoons boiled, unwound and woven into silk on clattering old looms, a craft hundreds of years old.

4. 4

   Cricket farm

   See how crickets are raised, then, if you're brave, try them crispy fried.

5. 5

   Rice wine (“happy water”)

   A family still making rice wine the traditional way. Free tasting, so go easy!

6. 6

   Elephant Waterfall

   Wide, thundering falls near Nam Ban. Climb down for the spray up close; the rocks are slippery.

7. 7

   Linh An Pagoda (Happy Buddha)

   Right next to Elephant Falls: a big laughing Buddha and a 71 m Quan Yin statue you can climb inside.

8. 8

   Mario Kart at Cao Nguyen Hoa

   Real-life Mario Kart: race your friends down a winding hillside track, helmet on, with the valley below.

9. 9

   Mongo Land

   Shoot down the giant rainbow slide on a tube, try grass sliding and meet the capybaras, rabbits and camels.

11 stops · ~110 km loop · pickup at the hostel

The best of Da Lat in one long day: the alpine coaster, the zen monastery, three waterfalls and the farms in between.

1. 1

   Datanla Waterfall + alpine coaster

   Ride the alpine coaster down through the pine forest to the falls, the most fun part of the day (coaster ticket not included).

2. 2

   Truc Lam Zen Monastery

   A peaceful hilltop monastery with flower gardens and big views over Tuyen Lam Lake. Cover shoulders and knees.

3. 3

   Tuyen Lam Lake

   A pine-ringed lake right below the monastery: still water, cool air and the best photo of the day.

4. 4

   K'Ho minority village

   Meet a family of the K'Ho, the native people of the Lang Biang plateau, and see how they live, farm and weave.

5. 5

   Mushroom farm

   Step inside a dark, humid mushroom house where the crop grows on hanging bags of straw.

6. 6

   Pongour Waterfall

   The widest falls in the region: water fans out over seven terraces of rock. At its best in the rainy season (May–November).

7. 7

   Silk factory

   Watch cocoons boiled, unwound and woven into silk on clattering old looms, a craft hundreds of years old.

8. 8

   Elephant Waterfall

   Wide, thundering falls near Nam Ban. Climb down for the spray up close; the rocks are slippery.

9. 9

   Cricket farm

   See how crickets are raised, then, if you're brave, try them crispy fried.

10. 10

    Coffee plantation

    Walk between arabica bushes, see how the beans are dried and roasted, and taste fresh Da Lat coffee, weasel coffee included.

11. 11

    Rice wine (“happy water”)

    A family still making rice wine the traditional way. Free tasting, so go easy!