Travel to Hue by bicycle

Have a nice trip! Remember to take a raincoat!

Thank you. I will buy it tomorrow.

Interesting idea, can you post a blog for your journey, like experiences, good place and bad 1 any troubles and good place to stay at night   

Travelling north is the 'uphill' route, much harder to cycle than southwards.

AVOID HIGHWAY 1A - Open Tour Buses are killers - whether you are a passenger or another road user.

Buy decent flags, and appropriate poles/mounts, and attach them to the rear of your bicycle. And use lots of flashing lights on your rear end (back/bicycle).

Carry spare inner tubes - most roadside repair types only have motorcycle tires/tyres. ALSO buy three of metres of Inox (stainless steel) chain and a German lock. Things walk fast here. Lock your bike to anything - signposts, tree, manhole covers even on a post on a traffic island. (PM me and I will give you addresses where you can buy stainless steel chain. Remember any self-respecting handyman has an angle grinder in their tool box)

REMEMBER, when you find your time estimate is way off (and it is) BUSES will happily carry your machine as checked baggage.

At Da Nang you have the choice of a free ride THROUGH the tunnel OR damn great hills OVER the Hai Van Pass. Take the truck - there are so many thieves (robbers) on the Hai Van Pass.  But your reward is a flat road after Hai Van all the way into Hue.

I recommend the Nguyen Tri Phong Hotel on Nguyen Tri Phong Street, Hue - they will help you in securing your bikes.

I ride a Dahon Mountain bike with 17-gears and I can guarantee you cannot make a HCM >> Hue >> HCM trip in 10 days! Just the Hue >> Da Nang stretch took me a day.

Interesting adventure.

The distance from HCM to Hue is 593 miles taking the most direct route.

593 miles divided by 10 days = 59.3 miles per day worth of cycling.

Mr Jatich above says it can't be done.

Well I beg to differ.

I've cycled just under 2000 miles in the past 7 months so know what I'm talking about.

I have no doubt it can be done.

But you will be spend approximately 10 to 12 hours each day on your bicycle.

Therefore leaving you with little time to do or see anything.

Not to mention the fact that you'll be exhausted by the end of it.

I think 15 days is a bit more realistic, perhaps even 20.

This will enable you to take in the sites at a leisurely pace.

After all, what's the point in rushing ?

It's not a race is it ?