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![](/Skins/Extend/Images/button2.jpg) | OverviewIf
cooking were painting, Vietnam
would have one of the world’s most colorful palettes”. The great diversity of
its climate and terrain can produce almost anything that can be eaten. The
Vietnamese ourselves have no culinary inhibitions and are always willing to try
something new. When you combine the two, nothing is ruled out. The picture of
Vietnamese cuisine is vast and varied, always subject to innovation, and always
vibrantly colorful.
Savor delicious Vietnamese
dishes from North down South is always a wonderful experiences, apart from that
we also have chance to experience a hands-on cooking class in different cooking
class with variety of recipes. The trip will take you to visit many highlights of the
country such as: Hanoi, Halong
Bay, Hue,
Hoi An, Mekong Delta and Ho Chi Minh
City. It is really great for the food lovers and
someone who love and want to cook their own Vietnamese dishes. ItineraryVietnam
Cooking Tours( 12 days/11 nights)
Savor delicious Vietnamese
dishes from North down South is always a wonderful experiences, apart from that
we also have chance to experience a hands-on cooking class in different cooking
class with variety of recipes. The trip Visit the many highlights of the
country such as: Hanoi, Halong
Bay, Hue,
Hoi An, Mekong Delta and Ho Chi Minh
City. This trip is a great for the food lovers and
someone who want to cook their own Vietnamese dishes. Comes and enjoy!
Day 1: Hanoi
arrives (D)
- Aiport pick up and transfer to your hotel. If time
permit, enjoy pleasant walk around the lake area for a glimpse of the
city.
- In the evening, we will enjoy our Welcome Dinner
at Tonkin restaurant
- Overnight at your hotel in Hanoi old quarter.
Day 2: Hanoi City
tour (B, L)
- We start with a cyclo( pedalised rickshaw) ride
around the old quarter and French quarter of Hanoi and stop at Hochiminh complex and
queue with local to walk solemnly to visit his mausoleum
- Short drive to Ngo Si Lien market for authentic
local street food market and keep on to visit Temple
of Literature – the first Emperial
college of Vietnam and symbol of Vietnamese
education traditions.
- Have lunch in a authentic local restaurant called
Quan An Ngon for best traditional Vietnamese dishes
- Visit Museum
of Ethnology – the best museum in
Hanoi for
an overview about Vietnamese culture
- Enjoy walk along Long Bien historical steel bridge of Hanoi
to see local life, visit Dong Xuan central market and old authentic hidden
street of Hanoi
old quarter
- Overnight at your hotel in Hanoi
Note: Lunch at Cha Ca La Vong
“Cha ca” is a favourite dish of
Hanoian. Located in Cha Ca street,
Cha ca La Vong (”cha ca” means grilled fish) is the famous restaurant to many
Hanoian as well as visitors from all over the world.
Day 3: Hanoi – Halong Bay
(B, L)
- We are met at the lobby of hotel at 08:00AM, then
transfer to Halong
Bay. After more than
3 hours driving including a stop-over in Hai Duong city, we arrive in Halong Bay at around 11:30.
- We will enjoy a delicious, fresh, seafood lunch
after that and spend about 4 hours cruising on this secluded bay. During
the time we will have the opportunity to visit the spectacular Heaven Palace (Thien Cung) and Dau Go
caves, those caves crammed with thousand of stalactites and stalagmites
with different colors, shapes and size.
- We keep cruising to see many lime stone islands
and islets, which dotted around the bay including: Incense Bowl islet,
Cock Fighting islet, Sail islet, Turtle Island...
- Transfer back to Hanoi in the late afternoon.
- Overnight at your hotel in Hanoi
Day 4: Hanoi – Cooking
class – Fly to Hue
(B, L)
- 08.30 – 8h45 Meeting our guide and chefs at Viet
Kitchen Spring and enjoy a special “Banh Giay”, and Vietnamese welcome
“Thai Nguyen” tea.
- After the welcomes, we will walk to see the “Hom”
fresh market nearby our center. The ‘Hom” market is divided into different
sections such as Flower, Seafood, Dry herb, Vegetable which is very
interesting to go through. It is also considered as one of the most
typical market in the Old Quarter of Hanoi with the way of setting out,
where the local go and shop daily.
- 8h45– 9h30: In the market, our guide and chef
will give you the chance to discover the traditional Vietnamese market and
explain for you all different kinds of food and vegetable which you may
see or not see them before. You have lots of opportunities to take photos
and also chat with the local people.
- 09h30 - 11h30: After shopping for our own food,
We walk back to Viet Kitchen Spring Restaurant to prepare for your amazing
experience with chefs. At get kitted out in your chef's outfit whilst our
chef talks you through today's dishes. Then our chef will lead you through
each dish, giving you plenty of opportunity to get involved in and hand on
reproducing the flavors and enjoy on the dishes you have just prepared. We
will also supply you with a recipe booklet containing all the information
you need to reproduce an authentic taste back home
- 11.30: On completion of the cooking class, enjoy
the meal with the food we cooked while chatting with the chef about Viet
foods and cooking
- Back to your hotel after lunch and free at
leisure till transfer to the airport for your flight to Hue
- Overnight at your hotel in Hue
Day 5: Hue
– City tour & boat trip (B, D)
- AM: Be met and transferred to the Wharf where we
will cruise along the Perfume River to visit:
- Thien Mu Pagoda (The Heavenly Lady pagoda), from here we will have a
good view of Perfume
River and
surroundings.
- Tu Duc King’s tomb, which is one of the most beautiful works of Royal
Architecture of the Nguyen Dynasty. The tomb lies in a boundless pine
forest.
- PM: Visit
the Citadel and the Forbidden
Purple City;
and Dong Ba market.
- Enjoy our royal dinner at a finest local
restaurant called Royal Restaurant
Note: Royal Restaurant is decorated as a Royal Dining Room, the Royal
Dining Room will surprise you with its authentic cuisines of Hue’s royalty. Just
imagine that you are the King, beside you is the Queen accompanied by
Mandarins, all wearing traditional royal clothes. All the food served is
royal including dishes symbolizing the dragon, phoenix, or peacock…..All
meticulously prepared to the finest details for a sumptuous dinner that
fits for royalty.
- Overnight at your hotel in Hue
Day 6: Hue
– Cooking class – Hoi An (B, L)
Y Thao Restaurant is an ideal place
for lunch or dinner: great food, a congenial host, and an unhurried meal in an
attractive setting of gardens, ceramics and artworks. The main attractions at Y
Thao garden house are the vegetarian and non-vegetarian Hue specialty dishes. The owner is a skilled
chef and the food is delicious. Her recipes have been handed down through the
family for many, many years. She includes at least one of the Hue ‘Royal' dishes in the menu. This half day
cooking experience at this restaurant is a great experience to get to learn
about Hue
cuisines.
- At 8.30 am our guide will meet you at your hotel
and then we will shop for fresh food at the Dong Ba market, the most
hustling market in Hue.
- Then starts the cooking class with Ms. Vy, the
famous chef at Y Thao.
- Enjoy eating the delicious foods that were just
cooked.
- After lunch, we take
a scenic drive on one of Vietnam's
most spectacular routes, the Mandarin
Road, to Hoi An passing the Hai Van Pass (Ocean Cloud
Pass), a mountainous highway
offering splendid views over the South China Sea
and also stop at Lang Co beach to visit fishing village with real local
fishermen life.
- Overnight at your hotel in Hoian
Day 7: Hoi An (B)
- AM: Enjoy walking tour around the ancient town to
visit the Japanese Covered Bridge, the Pottery Museum, Tan Ky old house,
the Cantonese congregation, the silk street of Hoi An, the temples and
pagodas of Chinese appearance.
- PM: we will take 3 hour boat trip to Thanh Ha
Pottery village, where we can see old men who produce jars, bowls, vases… and
enjoy local life on the water as well as in the village
- Overnight at your hotel in Hoian
Day 8: Hoi An – Cooking class – Saigon
(B, L)
- Meet the chef and enjoy a welcome drink at Hai
Scout Café (98 Nguyen Thai
Hoc Street, Hoi An Ancient Town, Tel:
3863210) – our meeting point.
- Visit Hoi An’s colorful market, and experience
the amazing sights, sounds and aromas of this busy market. We will have
the opportunity to interact with the local sellers and purchase some of
the ingredients to be used in the cooking lesson later.
- We board the Red
Bridge boat for a leisurely
cruise (25 minutes) along the Hoi An River to the Red Bridge
Cooking School.
This is a chance to view local river life, so make sure your camera is
handy.
On arrival, we explore the cooking school’s herb and vegetable garden,
before learning about some of Hoi An’s and Vietnam’s well-known dishes.
The cooking lesson runs for about 2 hours – each dish is first
demonstrated by the Red
Bridge chef’s,
before we prepare the same dish ourselves. Included in the class is a
brief introduction to Vietnamese food carving (plate decoration).
After the lesson, we sit down and eat exactly what we have cooked.
- Back to Hoian and free at leisure till transfer
to the airport for your short flight to Saigon
- Overnight at your hotel in Saigon
Day 9: Saigon
city tour & Cu Chi Tunnel (B, L)
- Morning
start with city tour of Saigon. You will
be overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle of this lively place. During a
city tour you will visit Former Presidential Palace, Central Post Office,
the Notre Dame Cathedral, Ben Thanh's market and enjoy walking around Lam
Son square area where much much Frech colonial buildings still remains.
- Keep on to visit Giac Lam pagoda – one of the most
beautiful and sacred pagoda in Saigon
- Have lunch with the most traditional and popular Vietnamese
food called PHo
- Afternoon drive to Cu Chi tunnels in the west of Saigon to visit this amazing tunnels networks used
during the war and get to know incredible history of the areas.
- Overnight
at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh City
Note: Phở is a Vietnamese noodle soup, usually
served with beef (phở bò) or chicken
(phở gà). The soup
includes noodles made from rice and is often served with Vietnamese basil, mint
leaves, lime, and bean sprouts that are added to the soup by the person who is
dining. It is listed at number 28 on
World's 50 most delicious foods complied by CNN Go in 2011
Day 10: Saigon – Mekong
Delta (B, L)
- 08:00 hrs pick up at your hotel in Saigon and transfer to Cai Be.
- Upon embarkation, clients are welcomed with fresh
cotton towels.
- The tour will begin with the visit of Cai
Be colorful floating market, cruising among local barges full of
fruits and vegetables… Cruising further, your sampan will bring you to see
some local home factories to discover traditional rice paste making, rice
pop corn, coco candies, and longans drying process.
- A delicious lunch will await you at a superb
Indochinese villa, Le Longanier, located in a luxuriant garden by the
river…
- After lunch, your sampan will proceed the cruise
to Dong Hoa Hiep. On the way, you will be able observe the
typical Mekong delta rural life. These
evergreen islands among the Mekong
River still remain
unknown to many people.
- Visit at an ancient mandarin house dating from
the 19th century where the family will welcome you with a cup a tea. We
will proceed to Vinh Long, passing beautiful landscapes
along Dong Phu canal, Binh Hoa Phuoc and An Binh islands famous
for their fruit orchards.
- Stops on the way can be made at An Binh
ancient Church or at Tam Ho bonsais garden.
- After crossing the Co Chien River, the
excursion will end at Vinh Long pier around 4pm, where your own
private transportation vehicle will await you for your transfer back to Saigon.
- Overnight at your hotels in Saigon
Day 11: Cooking class (B, L)
- Enjoy market visit with our chef through the
colorful and vibrant Ben Thanh market to purchase the ingredients what are
used during the cooking lesson.
- Cooking class from 10:00 to 13:00 with typical
southern dishes
Enjoy lunch with delicious food we cooked while chatting with the chef about
Vietnamese southern food
- Free afternoon at leisure or doing your own
things
- Overnight at your hotel in Hochiminh city
Day 12: Saigon
departs (B)
- Free at leisure or doing your own things till
transfer to the airport for your outgoing flight
RatesAll Travel Authentic tours are private and specially arranged for
you. You will not join a group when you arrive at your destination.
This price is indicative (low-season) pricing only, and is
the price per person, based on two people travelling together and sharing a
twin/double room in standard hotel accommodation.
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Prices include:
all accommodations with daily breakfast, transfers and land tranportation in
private air-con vehicle with driver, local & international flights in Indochina, professional English speaking guide, other
meals as detailed in the tour itinerary, all entrance fees and boat fees.
Price does not include: visa fees, airport departure taxes where not
included in air fares, tips and other personal expenses
The exact price of your holiday depends on the date of
travel, number of travelers, your special needs and request. Our quotation will
be sent to you by email and will include prices for standard accommodations, 3
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