Vietnam tours

Hanoi is a maze of streets, a hotch-potch of eras, a tangle of stories and your guide will take you into the backstreets to seek out the best stories that will bring the city around you to life.

Usually we don’t like telling people what to do, but we’ll make an exception here: you can’t visit Hoi An without exploring its rural outskirts – and this is one of our absolute favourite ways to do it.

Vietnamese art has thrived over the past two decades despite its turbulent history, maintaining a uniqueness that has put local artists on the international stage.

Every time we do it, cruising on Halong Bay feels almost magical – like we’ve accidentally sailed into a Vietnamese legend.

If you ask us, there’s no better way to kick off your trip to Vietnam than with this cooking class at the home of Vietnamese MasterChef finalist Chef Ai.

Saigon, the former capital of French Indochina, and the modern and dynamic Ho Chi Minh City combine their stories to produce a city flooded with landmarks and areas of cultural interest.

Let creativity take flight during this 60-minute workshop dedicated to painting the traditional conical hat, the nón lá.

Sipping a sweet iced coffee at a street-side café is an unmissable Vietnamese experience — but there’s more to it than just a few ground beans and some condensed milk: these days, Vietnam is a bona fide, world-class, bean-brewing pro.

Vietnam is notorious for its scooter-snarled streets, but we say — if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.

Join a passionate local food guide, exploring winding backstreets and hidden alleys, where a multitude of food vendors set up their stalls along the roadside.

With its picture-perfect rice terraces rippling down mountainsides and thatch-roofed stilt houses clustered in valleys, Pu Luong’s scenery is the stuff of pure romance — and there’s no better way to experience it than on a guided trek.