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Day 1: SaiGon - CatTien National Park. (L,D)
07.30 Departure from your hotel. Take us about 1.5 hour to get out the busy traffic and head on to VinhCuu district - DongNai province.
09.30 Start cycling ~35km on quiet countryside road to CatTien park. This forest area used to be the head quarter of Vietnamese army during the war. We arrive at the ranger post, meeting our Cat Tien park ranger, transfer luggage & water to our 4wd jeep,  then climb up the challenging slopes, 20 km up and down.
Be careful: wild elephants!! We are cycling through the elephant activities area, so we should keep together and following instruction of our ranger.
Picnic lunch break. We keep on cycling to TaLai ethnic minority village, then going through the buffer zone to head quarter of CatTien park. Maximum cycling distance today ~ 75km.

Day 2: Ficus Benjamina route (CaySi) - Trek - Saigon (B,L)
07.00 Start cycling 16km through forest to DakLua area. From here we start trekking 2km to this interesting eco-system of semi-evergreen forest and wetland-flooded-evergreen forest: the Ficus benjamina group. Located in an area of 3 ha, the highest level belong to family of Moraceae (Dau tam) such as: F. benjamina, F racemora, Flacourtiaceae, Hychaearpus etc..
The trek path has a lot of tuff rocks – product of vocalnic craters million years ago.
We also see huge trees of Lagerstromenia ovalfolia and several kind of birds.
Then we cycle 16km back, with a short stop over Cycas rumphii (Thien Tue), Ancistrolandus tectorius (Trung quan), Afzelia cyclocarpa (Go~) and BenCu rapids.
Shower & late lunch at park center, ferry crossing the river. We goodbye CatTien park, transfer by car to Saigon.

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