Overview

VIETNAM BACKSTREET TOURS is focus on Learning & Discovery experiences for travelers who want to see the Real Lives in HANOI. Besides showing beautiful famous Hanoi signatures, we’d love to Experience you the Living museum of Hanoi with the Good- the Bad & the Ugly though your 5 senses.

Highlights

Be Local: The best way to see Hanoi is riding motorbike like millions of Hanoian on daily works, pick up school kids, and go to local market… It will be your life time experiences.

Riding vintage Russian Minsk Motorcycle & Legendary Russian Gaz69( from Subsidized era): through zigzag Backstreet alleys, Black Market to beautiful romantic French Boulevard & West Lake area… Our uniqueness!!!

Touching Local Culture with the first hands testimony of home visits & tasting local street foods will be the Wow for local culture experiences that you will never forget.

Itinerary

Morning Tour

8AM – 8.15AM: Pick up from hotels and give a brief introduction for safety and tour

8.15AM – 9AM: Drive through black market, walk around the wet market to see the local life and then have a light breakfast with banh cuon/banh mi.

9AM – 9.45AM: Arrive Dong Da District’s area which is the most crowded part of the city: over 40 thousand person/square kilometer. Stop at trainstreet and wait for the best moment of the day by seeing the train passing through the street. Enjoy a beer or another drink!

9.45AM – 10.30AM: Move to French Quarter’s area and pass some famous places like Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Embassy Area, Phan Dinh Phung Street and Long Bien Bridge. Stop on the bridge to capture some interesting pictures before heading down to the Middle Island to see a totally different life down there without any electricity or water supply.

10.30AM – 11.30AM: Continue ride to another island of the Westlake where we will treat you an authentic Hanoian food as: pho cuon, pho chien phong…

11.30AM – 12PM: Head to a coffee shop where we will have a “HAPPY ENDING” so-called EGG-COFFEE. Our guide will recap everything about the tour.

12PM – 12.30PM: Return you back to the hotel.

Afternoon Tour

12.30PM – 12.45PM: Pick up guest from hotels and give a brief introduction for safety and tour

12.45 – 1.30PM: Drive through black market, walk around the wet market to see the local life and then have a light lunch with banh cuon/banh mi.

1.30PM – 2.40PM (train at 2.30PM): Arrive Dong Da District’s area which is the most crowded part of the city: over 40 thousand person/square kilometer. Stop at train street and wait for the best moment of the day by seeing the train passing through the street. Enjoy a beer or another drink!

2.40PM – 3.20PM: Move to French Quarter’s area and pass some famous places like Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Embassy Area, Phan Dinh Phung Street and Long Bien Bridge. Stop on the bridge to capture some interesting pictures before heading down to the Middle Island to see a totally different life down there without any electricity or water supply.

3.20PM – 4.20PM: Continue ride to another island of the Westlake where we will treat you an authentic Hanoian food as: pho cuon, pho chien phong…

4.20AM – 4.45PM: Head to a coffee shop where we will have a “HAPPY ENDING” so-called EGG-COFFEE. Our guide will recap everything about the tour.

4.45PM – 5PM: Return you back to the hotel.

Sunset Tour

5PM – 5.15PM: Pick up guest from hotels and give a brief introduction for safety and tour

5.15PM – 6PM: Head to the Long Bien bridge to capture some interesting pictures before heading down to the Middle Island to see a totally different life down there without any electricity or water supply.

6PM – 7PM: Drive to residence area, and walk around the wet market to see the local life and then have a light snack with banh mi.

7PM – 7.30PM (train at 7.30PM): Arrive Dong Da District’s area which is the most crowded part of the city: over 40 thousand person/square kilometer. Stop at train street and wait for the best moment of the day by seeing the train passing through the street. Enjoy a beer or another drink!

7.30PM – 8.20PM: Continue ride to another island of the Westlake where we will treat you an authentic Hanoian food as: pho cuon, pho chien phong…

8.20PM – 8.40PM: Head to a coffee shop where we will enjoy famous EGG-COFFEE.

8.40PM – 9PM: Go to Ba Dinh Square for the most solem moment: flag ceremony.

9PM – 9.30PM: Return you back to the hotel.

PRICE: 70USD/ 1 PERSON

INCLUDED

Vehicles (Minsk or Jeep)

Tour guide and drivers

Meals and drinks

Helmets

EXCLUDED

Travel insurance

Tip and gratuities