Ho Chi Minh City-based tourist firm Viking Travel & Media has launched a special package tour allowing travelers to pedal across Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand through a total distance of 960 kilometers.

On the first trip, to kick off on March 15 in HCMC, guests booking the tour will spend the first day riding for 111 kilometers to southern Tay Ninh Province’s Moc Bai international border gate and Cambodia’s Svay Rieng, Thoi Bao Kinh Te Sai Gon (Saigon Economic Times) reported.

Under the highly-challenging 11-day itinerary, the travelers will continue pedaling through 395 kilometers from Svay Rieng to Cambodia’s most southwestern province of Koh Kong.

The group will ride for another 110 kilometers to reach Thailand’s Trat Province near Cambodia border before traveling through the Thai provinces of Chanthaburi, Rayong, tourist hot spots Pattaya and Bangkok.

The travelers will spend one day exploring the Thai capital city before flying back to HCMC.

The tour is offered for US$550 per traveler, excluding the airfares between Bangkok and HCMC which are estimated to cost $200 to $250 per passenger.

Tourists will travel with their own bicycles, according to Viking Travel & Media director Tran Xuan Hung.

“We currently have 12 passengers to departure on March 15,” Hung told The Saigon Times Daily. “Most of the travelers are businessmen who love biking tours and have experience in biking.”

The director said the travelers had traveled by bike to central Vietnam and Hanoi and they wanted to test their strength on the new routes.

“This tour is really challenging,” Hung said. “On certain days, the travelers will have to start at 5a.m. and ride all day long for about 150 kilometers.”

The HCMC-based company only accepts bookings from travelers who are in good physical conditions and have experience in biking.

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