Travel Activities Details
Country: | Laos |
City: | 4000 Islands |
Duration: | 2 Day(s) - 1 Night(s) |
Tour Category: | Cycling |

Package Itinerary
ISLAND-HOPPING BY BICYCLE ON 4000 ISLANDS
Cycling Roundtrip from Don Det/Don Khone, hopping 5 Islands with an overnight break on Don Khong in 2 days/1 night
Overview
Duration: |
Tour starts 07.45AM (day 1)
Tour ends 15:00PM (day 2)
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Depart/return location: | Green Paradise office in Don Det |
Including: | Mountainbike and helmet, day plan and map (with GPS- referring points), ferry transport, meals, drinking water, guide |
What to bring: | Convenient daypack, sport shoes, raincoat, sun crème and protection, repellents, mobile phone, ID-card, money, dry clothes for after cycling |
Itinerary
You will find the last ferry point after 4 km. On the other side you will arrive close to a Wat on Don Khong (Houay). Find the paved road and ride around 5,5 km to the north for Muang Khong.
In the afternoon it is time for relaxing and recovering in Muang Kong, or if you still like, cycle round the Island on fairly good road in the late afternoon (takes 20 to 30 km and 1 to 2 hours, depending the size of the loop you choose).
Day 2| Don Khong > Don Som > Don Det
Have a good and early breakfast and then pedal the same way south, as you arrived the day before, underpass the big bridge again. At km 7.5 from guesthouse find the ferry point. Cross over by small ferry to Don Som where you will see: local villages, rice-paddies, wooden bridges, fisherman village, Wat. A beautiful cycling rout about 19km on a quiet island. Then you go back with the boat from Don Som to Don Det.
Costs
Price on request
Tour: designed and tested by Oskar Ruch (SEC Swisscontact and cycling advisor)