Mountain biking from Dalat to Mui Ne

After a few days in Dalat my friends continued north to Na Thrang. I had a flight in a few days from Saigon so I needed to make my way back there. I heard that you could do a mountain biking trip from Dalat to Mui Ne so I asked about it in the various tourist offices. You needed a minimum of 2 people to do such a trip so I left my email address with them and asked to be contacted if they had someone else looking to do similar.

The following day I got an email saying that they had someone else wanting to do the trip and that we'd leave at 7am the following day. The trip from Dalat to Mui Ne is about 200km but we did the start and end of the journey by car so we cycled a little over 100km. There were a few downhill sections, one of which lasted for about 15 minutes but the rest was relatively flat with a few climbs every so often.

View of mountains on way to Mui Ne

Every time we passed through a village people would come out to wave at us and shout hello.
Later I asked our guide how frequently they ran these tours and he said it had been about 2 months since they last did one. This explained how we were a novelty for the locals :)