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Vietnam Gourmet Express

Trip length:	10 days
Trip style:	Vietnam Comfort Tours
Trip themes:	Local life & Culture, Local foods
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Start / End cities:	Ho Chi Minh city / Hanoi
Price from:	Upon request
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This trip is designed for the travelers with limited time and an unlimited appetite for a culinary adventure. It features Vietnam's most popular spots, with many special opportunities to discover and savor the surprisingly varied tastes of this fascinating country.

From Ho Chi Minh city to Hanoi with fascinating landscapes and savoury food, the trip an ultimate gateway to meet your travel needs in gourmet style. Taste the feshness of the Mekong Delta, walk through busy market of Saigon and Hanoi, join in excellent cooking class in Hoi An and savor enomous seafood whilst you cruise the spectacular Halong Bay. Let's discover the real Vietnam with its most beautiful sights and appreciate the best taste it can offer.

Brief Itinerary

Days 1-2: Ho Chi Minh City

Soak up with sights, sounds, and smell of vibrant Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City. Touring featured landmarks and enjoy fresh ingredients of tropical land.

Day 3: Mekong Delta

Cruise the twelfth longest river of the World, visit luxuriant orchards, cottage industries and try elephant-ear fish with fresh herbs

Days 4-5: Hoi An

Shopping in quaint Hoi An, visit herb growing village and local market. Enjoy fun cooking and reveal the Vietnamese taste.

Day 6: Hue

Explore glaring royal past of the country and attend in a colorful royal banquest

Day 7: Hanoi

Marvel at thousand years old Temple of Literature and enjoy first hand experience of Hanoi cooking style

Days 8-9: Halong Bay

Cruise spectacular Halong bay, swim in emerald water, savor fresh seafood and overnight aboard under stars

Day 10: Departure

Enjoy fun shopping in Hanoi Old Quarter before departure flight. Safe travel and keep in touch!

Highlights

		
				Cyclo tour of Saigon featured sights

				Discover taste of the South with cooking class

				Cruise Mekong and enjoy freshness of tropical land

				Fun shopping in quaint Hoi An

				Hoi An country tour and cooking

				Hue Royal citadel and Royal banquet

				Visit to Hanoi's Temple of Literature and excellent market tou

				Cruise spectacular Halong and overnight on board

Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City arrival

Arrive in Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City. Get picked up and transferred to your hotel. Today, you will have a brief meeting with your tour guide / group leader for more necessary information and travel documents. Your gourmet experience will begins today with a savory dinner in an authentic local restaurant. Overnight in hotel.

Day 2: Ho Chi Minh City sightseeing and cooking

Your day will start with a buffet breakfast then take a cyclo tour around Saigon Center for visiting to War Remnant Museum, Notre Dame Cathedral, Centre Post office and so on. Lunch with Pho – a well known Vietnamese noodle soup - severed in Pho 2000 restaurant. This afternoon you will take the culinary discovery with a fun cooking class in Saigon. The experience begins with a fascinating visit to the market, where the expert chefs will introduce you about ingredients and ways of substituting them. Get fun ‘hands on’ cooking lesson and then it is the time to enjoy your delicious creations. Free at your leisure for the remainder of the evening to explore and enjoy the nightlife of Saigon. Overnight in hotel.

Day 3: Mekong Delta explore

Drive to Mekong delta for a full day tour. Enjoy the lush and evergreen scenery of the most fertile land in the country. Take a boat cruise on Mekong River, visit orchard garden and taste local fruits freshly picked from trees then visit some local cottage industry. Lunch is served with local specialties in a fresh garden before you take a sit on sampan for rowing to explore the mangroves of the Mekong Delta along meandering rivers. Boarding the big boat to get back to the harbor then bus drive back to Ho Chi Minh City. Free evening and overnight in hotel.

Day 4: Ho Chi Minh City – Hoi An discovery

In the morning you will take a flight from Saigon to Da Nang on the Central Coast then take a short bus drive to the Hoi An ancient town. In the afternoon, take a walking tour of this beautiful town for sightseeing, photos and shopping. Dinner is served in one of the best restaurant in town. Overnight in hotel.

Day 5: Hoi An country and cooking course

This morning will start with a tour to Tra Que, a small village in the suburb of Hoi An, that known for growing the country's best vegetables and herb. Joining with villagers and learn how they grow vegetables there on the dry sand. Followed by a walk around the village, taking photos and then visit one of local home to learn about their life. In the afternoon your local chef will take you to the market to have introduction about and get cooking ingredients before the cooking class where he will impart the secret of some special Vietnamese dishes with the flavor of Hoi An. Enjoy your savory creations and realize how wonderful a cook you are. Overnight in hotel.

Day 6: Hoi An – Hue - Royal style dinner

Depart Hoi An for a scenic drive along picturesque rice paddies, verdant mountains and spectacular beaches to Hue, the former imperial capital of Vietnam, city of historical interests and home to 'Royal Cuisine'. Spend your afternoon to visit the Imperial Citadel, a huge work built by the last feudal dynasty of the country and explore the ruin of the Purple Forbidden City. Tonight you will have a chance to attend a Royal Banquet style dinner, with dragon robe and crown put on, in one of Hue’s unique royal style decorated restaurant. Overnight in hotel.

Day 7: Hue – Hanoi touring and cooking

Today you will have a flight to get to Hanoi. After arrival in the capital city, in the afternoon you will spend your time to visit Temple of Literature, the first university in the country built in 1070 and the Ngoc Son temple, a Jade on the Hoan Kiem Lake. In the middle afternoon, you will have a stroll around local market with your local chef to learn about unique delicacies of North Vietnam and taste some of the ingredients used in the local cuisine and to watch the buying and selling rituals of a Vietnamese market before enjoying the hand-on cooking class and savor your creations. Overnight in hotel.

Day 8: Hanoi – Halong Bay cruise

Take a drive through beautiful rural scenery of North of Vietnam. Board your cruising vessel and enjoy a scrumptious seafood lunch as you cruise among thousand of dramatic limestone karsts into the breathtaking scenery of the World Natural Wonder. Visit a cave, go swimming, kayak and take part in a Vietnamese spring roll cooking demonstration or just simply relax as you wind through the Bay. Overnight on board in Halong Bay.

Day 9: Halong Bay - Hanoi

Further cruise and enjoy a wholesome brunch before getting back to harbor at noon. Drive back to Hanoi have a stop to visit a ceramic making village in Dong Trieu to learn how beautiful ceramic stuff are made. Free at leisure for the remainder of the afternoon for wandering around the Old Quarter for sightseeing, photos and last shopping. A farewell dinner will be organized this evening and it is the time to summarize the experience of the whole trip. Overnight in hotel.

Day 10: Hanoi Departure

Today is departure day so no activities planed. ?noy your free time until get a transfer to the aiport for your onward flight. Safe travel and keep intouch!.

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Pho 2000, Saigon

Rickshaw Ride in Ho Chi Minh City

Elephant Ear Fish, Mekong Delta

Rowing at a Creek in Mekong Delta

Hoi An City

Cooking Class in Hoi An

Hue Citadel

Royal Meal in Hue

One-Pillar Pagoda in Hanoi

Grille Fish in Hanoi

Halong Bay Cruises

Cooking Class Aboard in Halong Bay

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