Cycling Tours
Upon arrival in Hà Nội Airport, you will be transferred you to your hotel. Rest of the day is at leisure. Please be aware check-in time is 14:00pm. Early check-in cannot be guaranteed and is subject to availability.
Today, the full day bike tour takes us around Hà Nội‘s most interesting sites, including the Hồ Chí Minh Complex, Hồ Chí Minh's Mausoleum and his Stilt House, Presidential Palace, the One Pillar Pagoda and Trấn Quốc Pagoda. We continue to the Temple of Literature, Ngoc Son Temple and one of the city's Museums. We also visit the Old Quarter known for its 36 streets and former craft guilds. After that, we will move to the Hà Nội Old Quarter Area to start the journey discovering the local food world and local life of Hà Nội. You will have the chance to enjoy a Green Papaya salad, Hà Nội bread, Banh Cuon 'steam stuffed pan cake', Pho 'Beef or Chicken noodle', Hà Nội Draught Beer and Egg Coffee. During the tour, you not only have a chance to enjoy wonderful local food, you will also get to know the ingredients and the cooking method of all the local tasty dishes but also to widen your local knowledge by visiting some destinations of culture, history including Hoan Kiem Lake, St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Local Market, Kim Ngan Temple and The Old City Gate of Hà Nội’s Old Quarter. We then return back to the meeting place. Please Note: • Hồ Chí Minh Mausoleum is closed on Monday, Friday and afternoons in week for maintenance. • The Classic bike tour in Hà Nội is 6-7 hours with a break along the way. The distance covered is approx. 8-10 kms. Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Street Food
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Today, we travel 2 hrs driving along green fields and villages along the two side of the Highway No. 1. Your first stop is Hoa Lư, the 11th Century former Capital of Vietnam. We visit a Temple of Dinh & Le Dynasty and learn about the history of Vietnam in the war with China and about the first Vietnamese Government. You will have great views over the rice paddy fields and lots of fresh air. We then travel to Tam Cốc by bike and see some of the local Temples amongst the Karst Mountains and also paddy fields, where the rice can turn the fields yellow during the harvest. Upon arrival, we enjoy a boat trip to visit the Tam Cốc Grottoes with some spectacular scenery en route, while gliding along the river amongst rice paddies and limestone Mountains the peak like towers over you. We return back to Hà Nội in the late afternoon. Meals: Breakfast
After breakfast, fly to Đà Nẵng. Upon arrival, transfer to Hội An fand enjoy a half day walking tour of this ancient town. From the 16th - 18th Centuries, Hội An was a thriving international commercial port for Chinese, Dutch, French, Japanese, Portuguese and Arab traders. Some of the buildings in the narrow streets have remained unchanged for more than a century. We enjoy a half day walking tour through the narrow winding streets of the Ancient Quarter visiting Chua Ong Pagoda, Chinese Assembly Halls, the 200 year old Tam Ky Ancestral House and the Japanese Bridge. Meals: Breakfast
This morning, we travel to Tra Que herb village by bike. Take a short stroll around the vegetable garden and listen to the history of the village. Then join gardening activities in preparing the land, fertilising with seaweed, raking the ground, sowing, watering and picking vegetables. Enjoy a foot soak before getting to prepare lunch at a local restaurant inside the village. Join in a cooking class with ‘Tam Hữu’, ‘Spring Roll’ and ‘Banh Xeo’, a local pancake from the people in the middle region of Vietnam. After your morning excursions and lunch, you learn how to harvest and wrap the vegetables. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch with Cooking Class
After breakfast, transfer to Đà Nẵng Airport for your flight to Sài Gòn. Upon arrival at Tan Son Nhat Airport, our driver and guide will transfer you for check-in at hotel. Please be aware that check-in time is 14:00pm. Early check-in cannot be guaranteed and is subject to availability on the day. This afternoon, we visit all interesting sites and landmarks in Sài Gòn City. First stop is Notre Dame Catholic Cathedral, French built Post Office, the Reunification Palace and War Remnants Museum, which primarily contains exhibits relating to the American phase of the Vietnam War. We take a walking street food tour and indulge in the dishes that have made Southern Vietnamese cuisine famous, like Bánh Mì Hồng Hoa, Bánh Xèo ‘sizzling cake’ paired with Saigon beer, Gỏi Cuốn, Summer Rolls, Bánh Tráng Trộn and Mixture Rice Paper. Sài Gòn is a true culinary master, legendary, in fact! We get right down to the soul of this beast of a food city and spend three hours eating like a local. It may seem like non-stop culinary decadence because that’s just what it is. And you're going to love it! Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with Street Food
This morning, we drive to Cái Bè in the heart of the Mekong Delta. We set off by motorboat to visit the Cái Bè Floating Market and watch the locals trading fruit and many other commodities onboard their vessels. We then wander into the small villages to visit the orchard and fruit plantations by bike. Keep cruising through a series of small canals to experience the charms of the Upper Mekong Delta. Back Sài Gòn for some relaxation and time at leisure. Meals: Breakfast
After breakfast, we visit the Củ Chi Tunnels, which were never discovered by the American forces, Stretching over 200 kms, this incredible underground network, dug by hand out of hard laterite, connected command posts, hospitals, shelter and weapon factories. Return to Tan Son Nhat Airport for your flight to Siem Reap. Upon arrival you will be welcomed by your tour guide and driver and transferred to your hotel. The rest of the day is free time at your own leisure. Meals: Breakfast
After breakfast, we cycle to the main Temple attraction for an extensive exploration of the magnificent 12th Century Angkor Wat. You will realise why this great Temple is simply unsurpassed by any other monument. We continue down to a little brick Temple called ‘Prasat Kravan’ where we will enjoy lunch in a local restaurant at Srah Srang Village. After lunch, we continue by car visiting the jungle covered Temple of Ta Prohm, which is an incredible sight. There are enormous fig trees and gigantic creepers, which embrace themselves in the stone foundations of the structure giving the impression of man's creation being reclaimed by the powerful forces of nature. We finish our day of exploring the wonderous ancient ruins with the South Gate of Angkor Thom, which is famous for its series of colossal human faces carved in stone, the impressive Bayon Temple, the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Elephant Terrace and the Terrace of the Leper King. In the evening, we will have chance to taste many Khmer local foods, snacks as well sweets. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
After breakfast, check-out of hotel and proceed to the Airport for your onward flight. Meals: Breakfast
Tour Prices are per person twin share in Australian Dollars. Conditions apply and group tours are subject to change and availability. Prices are subject to currency fluctuations. (lv)
