Cycle With a Purpose: Introducing Social CyclesTravGanic is pleased to announce another exciting partnership – get ready for an adventure with a purpose with Social Cycles!

Social Cycles host small group cycling adventures for travelers with a social conscience. They engage with local experts (NGOs) to learn about social issues, challenges, and strategies within the local communities they visit. In this way, they can gain the knowledge to make a positive difference in these communities. By doing so, travelers with Social Cycles can experience and understand the local communities at completely new depths.

Social Cycles offers cycling tours built on the backbone of social good. They currently offer tours in seven countries: Vietnam, Mongolia, Laos, Cambodia, Iran, Columbia, and Samoa. An experience with Social Cycles gives you the opportunity to explore a destination on a bike and at a slower pace. This allows you to truly get a taste of the local culture. You will be exploring the country, and giving back at the same time.

Why We Love Social Cycles

The core value of Social Cycles is to promote awareness and education about social impact issues in the destination country. Each tour engages with multiple NGO experts for the purpose of enlightening and empowering the guests to local challenges and solutions.

Social Cycles hires local NGOs to provide riders with education and awareness about the programs that are offered. This helps to improve the tourists’ understanding and experience of the local community. On every tour, all the riders have the opportunity to discuss the programs with each other at a ‘donation debate’ on the final night. The riders then have the opportunity to financially support one or more of the NGOs they have learned about on their tour.

Social Cycles supports approximately 20-25 different NGOs across the seven countries they operate in. So far over AU$84,000 has been donated!

Tours We Are Excited For

Social Cycles offers once in a lifetime cycling tours through seven different countries. Each experience gives you the opportunity to explore the countryside and connect deeper with the local people, food, and culture. Here’s one we’re really excited about:

12 Day Cambodia – Vietnam Cycling Adventure

Cycling from Cambodia and across the border into Vietnam is the best way to experience the contrast in culture between these two amazing countries! This 12-day adventure comprises of 6 days on the bike, covering up to 300 miles along carefully planned cycling routes.

In this tour, you will Cycle through the Mekong Delta along canals amidst rural home life. You will engage with and learn from local experts in their field from a variety of grass-root charities. You will visit cocoa farms, salt fields, crab markets, pepper farms, rice noodle factories, floating markets, and participate in local cooking classes. You will get to eat in social enterprise based restaurants that support local NGOs. On this tour, you will cycle six out of twelve days and ride up to 300 miles in total. 

You can learn more about this tour and see a detailed itinerary right here. Dates throughout 2022 are available to book right now!