Cooking Class and Market Tour in Hanoi

Departure Time: 09:00, 15:00

Duration: 4.5 hrs

Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is a bustling city waiting to be explored. It is home to ancient sites, peaceful parks, busy marketplaces and more. Enjoy the amazing scenery through the eyes of a local as you’ll get more than a delicious meal in this experience!

You can choose between a morning and an afternoon cooking experience. After getting picked up from your accommodation, you will have a walk through a local market to buy all the ingredients for the cooking class. You will have the hands-on experience on how to cook a real Vietnamese traditional meal under the guidance of a professional cook. Enjoy what you have created while also tasting unique local wines! At the end of the experience, you will be dropped off at your accommodation!

Meals: Snacks

Hanoi to Hue

Type: Train (Overnight)

Time: 05:50, 08:40, 13:50, 19:20, 22:15

Duration: 13 Hours

Transfer from Hanoi to Hue

Please make your own way to the bus station to catch your bus to Hue.

Hue City Tour

Departure Time: 08:00

Duration: 8 hrs

Between 8 and 8:30 AM your tour guide and driver will pick you up from you Hue Accommodation. Today will be filled with exciting visits and stops, and during the day you will get to learn a lot about Vietnamese history and taste some local food! Your first stop of the day is going to be Dragon Boat Tour - we start with dragon boat trip on the romantically named Perfume River (Huong River) to visit Hue’s best-known religious sites, Thien Mu Pagoda (Pagoda of the Celestial Lady). Next, you will visit Thien Mu Pagoda. Pagoda was first built in 1601 by Founder of the Nguyen Family in the region (Nguyen Hoang). Here you will have chance to learn about history of Vietnamese Buddhism and how important it is to our local community. Continue by bus to discover Imperial Citadel - this is now the Best Place in Vietnam to learn about life of the Nguyen Emperors, their wives - concubines - eunuchs. Your tour continue with a short walk to visit Royal Antique Museum dedicated to Vietnam's imperial past and arts of that era. After that, our tour guide and driver will take you to visit lively Dong Ba market to have some fun bargaining with local sellers there before our delicious lunch served with some Vietnamese Food. We continue with a visit to the elaborate Tomb of Minh Mang built from 1841 - 1843. The Tomb is famous for landscape and Oriental Architecture. Tomb of Khai Dinh was built from 1920 - 1931. This is the smallest tomb (48.5X117m) of the Nguyen Emperors, but took the longest time and cost a lot of money to build. Our final Stop for today will be conical hat and incense making work shop. Here you will have chance to see how local make for their living before driving back to your hotel. And we expect to finish our tour at 4.00PM- 4.30PM.

Meals: Lunch

Hue to Hoi An

Type: Public Bus

Time: 8:00, 12:00, 16:00

Duration: 2.5 Hours

Transfer from Hue to Hoi An

Please make your own way to the meeting point to catch your bus to Hoi An.

Hoi An Bicycle Day Trip

Departure Time: 08:00

Duration: 5 hrs

This morning you will be picked up at your accommodation to go pick out a bike before heading out on your unforgettable day tour to Cam Kim island. We will cross the Thu Bon river along with plenty of locals heading to school or to the central market. Here we will make a stop in the Kim Bong carpentry village and take a look at the fishing boat builders on the riverbank. Here there are several families famous for generations of boatmaking and carpentry. They also contributed in building Hoi An's beautiful wooden houses for Chinese and Japanese traders that make the town such a charming destination today.

Leaving the town, we will cycle past a scenic rice field and small river branches where you can see large fishing nets hanging over the water. We will visit a family on a small local island to see the most common local occupation: weaving sleeping mats, a tradition hundreds of years old.

Finally, we will cycle through the tranquil countryside to another family's house for a homemade local lunch. After a great meal with even better company, we will cycle back to town. After returning your bike you will be dropped off at your hostel in the afternoon.

Meals: Lunch

Hoi An to Nha Trang

Type: Public Bus (Overnight)

Time: 17:00

Duration: 13 Hours

Transfer from Hoi An to Nha Trang

Snorkelling Day Trip

Departure Time: 8.30

Duration: 8 hrs

We will pick you up and then it’s a short ride to the harbor, where we will take the boat to Mun Island (Ebony Island). Here, we will stop for one hour of leisurely snorkeling, swimming and sunbathing. The snorkeling equipment is provided free of charge and you will see abundant marine wildlife and stunning coral reefs.

At about 11:00 am we will continue to Mot Island where you will enjoy excellent fresh cuisine for lunch. After lunch, we will enjoy the floating bar with complimentary red wine and fruit. At around 2:30 pm, we make our way to Tam Island.

Here, you can relax and sunbathe or choose to do the optional water sports activities such as jet ski, catamaran, wave killer and canoe. Then you can also visit a fishing village where you can see the villagers at work catching cuttlefish, shrimp, flower crabs. At 4:30 pm we make our way back to the harbor and then we will bring you back to your hotel

Nha Trang to Dalat

Type: Public Bus

Time: 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:30, 15:30, 16:30

Duration: 8 Hours

Transfer from Nha Trang to Dalat

Please make your own way to the bus station to catch your bus to Dalat.

Countryside Motorcycle Adventure

Departure Time: 08:30

Duration: 8 hrs

Take an exciting motorcycle tour around Dalat with an English speaking driver/guide. Ride on the back of a motorcycle to admire the beauty of this region filled with natural wonders such as lakes, waterfalls, lush green forests and floral gardens. Take a break at the Truc Lam meditation center and see the beautiful Paradise lake, Elephant waterfall and Linh An pagoda. Immerse yourself in the local way of life at a Chicken minority village (K' ho people) and learn about the local industry as we stop by a vegetable farm, a mushroom farm, a coffee farm and a silk factory. Arrive back to Dalat around 16:00 pm.

Dalat to Ho Chi Minh City

Type: Public Bus

Time: Every hour 5:00 to 19:00

Duration: 8 Hours

Transfer from Dalat to Ho Chi Minh City

Please make your own way to the bus station to catch your bus to Ho Chi Minh City.

Ho Chi Minh Street Food Experience By Scooter

Departure Time: 13:30, 18:00

Duration: 4 hrs

During this exciting tour, we will try really tasty Vietnamese dishes at 6 local places that are locals' favorite areas throughout 4 hours. You will have a chance to see decorated colorful streets on the back of a scooter, wandering around 5 lively and sparkling districts, and enjoying a fresh atmosphere. Our first stop will be The Venerable Thich Quang Duc Monument, a memorial to the monk who set himself on fire to protest the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam.

Then, we will continue to Ho Thi Ky Flower Market, which is the place that supplies the fresh and beautiful flowers at quite a low a price in Ho Chi Minh City such as chrysanthemum, marigold, gerbera, auspicious flower to orchid, rose, sunflower and so on. Flowers are from Dalat, Hanoi and other countries such as Japan, Italy and China. Not only blossoms, but also garment tools and materials are also sold there.

After this, we will drive through the District 10, a part of Chinatown with many small alleys where we will learn more about the colorful city at night. We will also stop for you to take pictures and give an explanation about this place.

Finally, if you want to learn about the "snack culture" of Saigon, then we will definitely have to visit Xom Chieu market (also known as Market 200). The dishes' taste remains unchanged throughout the year and especially the price does not change either on weekdays or holidays.

Please note that all food and drinks will be included in the price

Meals: Snacks