Activities in Vietnam
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Mekong Delta Discovery Small Group Adventure Tour from Ho Chi Minh City
8 hours (Departs Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
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Travel to the heart of the Mekong Delta on this small group adventure tour from Ho Chi Minh City. You'll board a private longtail boat, experience the diversity…
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Halong Bay Overnight Junk Boat Cruise
2 days (Departs Hanoi, Vietnam)
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Imagine waking up surrounded by the tranquil beauty of Halong Bay - one of Vietnam's most spectacular natural wonders. Dotted with limestone islands in a sea of…
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Red Bridge Cooking School
Red Bridge Cooking School offers the most full-blown experience – going to class involves a relaxing 4km cruise down the river. There are half-day (US$23) and full-day (US$39) courses, both of which include market visits. The half-day class focuses on local specialities, with rice paper–making and food decoration tips thrown in for good measure. The full-day class takes on a more ambitious menu, including making pho (rice-noodle soup). Students are given recipe print-outs to take home and, as an added sweetener, there is a 20m swimming pool for their use.
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Cat Cat Village
The nearest village within walking distance is Cat Cat, 3km south of Sapa. Like everywhere in this area, it's a steep and very beautiful hike down; if you're too exhausted or unfit to hike back up, there are plenty of xe om ready and willing to cart you back to your hotel.
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Handspan Adventure Travel
If you’re really keen on kayaking in Halong Bay, contact specialist operator Handspan Adventure Travel, which runs professionally organised trips, has qualified guides and operates two beach camps; trips start from US$159.
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Glow
Trendy spa in the heart of downtown, set in a mall that used to be an old French cinema. It’s almost like a little boutique hotel, and offers an array of aromatherapy facial treatments, body treatments and therapeutic massage.
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Phat Tire Ventures
Phat Tire Ventures is a reputable operator, with trekking programs from US$20 as well as adventure programs from US$30. It also has one-day (US$72) or two-day (US$155) rides to Mui Ne and Nha Trang.
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Cham Island Diving Center
You can book dives at Cu Lao Cham Marine Park with Cham Island Diving Center. It has also opened Dive Bar and Restaurant at the same address as its office.
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SF Salon & Spa
In the Old Quarter, head to SF Salon & Spa for Swedish or Thai massages (US$12) and plenty of reasonably priced spa treatments.
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Dam Sen Park
If there is one place every family should take kids to in this city of Ho Chi Minh, then Dam Sen Park is it. It includes a wide variety of amusements, such as paddle-boat rides around a lake lined with dragons. There are rides that include a monorail snaking through the park – a good way to get your bearings – plus a roller coaster, Ferris wheel and bumper cars. There are also plenty of parks and theme areas, such as orchid gardens, an aviary and a dinosaur park. On weekends the bandstand sees a range of shows, which feature singing and dancing warriors, rabbits and hip-hop stars all under the age of 12. Fishing is allowed in the lakes. There’s also a water park on the gr…
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Mekong Delta Discovery Small Group Adventure Tour from Ho Chi Minh City
8 hours (Departs Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
by Viator
Travel to the heart of the Mekong Delta on this small group adventure tour from Ho Chi Minh City. You'll board a private longtail boat, experience the diversity…
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Cu Chi Tunnels Small Group Adventure Tour from Ho Chi Minh City
5 hours 30 minutes (Departs Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
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Experience the world of the Cu Chi freedom fighters with a visit to their famous tunnel system. This network of over 200 km of tunnels became legendary during t…
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Ta Phin Village
Another popular hike is to Ta Phin village, home to Red Dzao and about 10km from Sapa. Most people take a xe om to a starting point about 8km from Sapa, and then make a 14km loop through the area, passing through Black H’mong and Red Dzao villages.
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Youth Action Travel
Youth Action Travel has individual adventure activities (biking from US$20, adventure activities from US$28) as well as team-building activities and paragliding (US$80).
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Cable Car
Dalat's newest attraction, the Cable Car, dangles along a 2.3km wire to Quang Trung Reservoir. Needless to say, the views are stunning but it's not for the faint-hearted.
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Café on Thu Wheels
Immensely popular cycling and motorbiking tours around Hué with a large dose of laughs.
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Sinh Café
Sinh Cafe Offers bargain basement local tours as well as open-tour buses.
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Vietnam Cookery Centre
This Cookery Centre offers a half-day initiation course for lunch or dinner involving five dishes and a souvenir handbook to remember the tricks of the trade. Lunch classes from 9.30am, dinner classes from 3.30pm. See the website for full details of the address and how to get here.
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Do Son Beach
Do Son Beach, 21km southeast of central Haiphong, is a honky-tonk seaside resort that is popular with Vietnamese for karaoke and massage. The 4km-long promontory ends with a string of islets, and the peninsula’s nine hills are known as Cuu Long Son (Nine Dragons).
There are plenty of colourful fishing boats on the water and a long promenade, but the beaches are disappointingly small and disappear completely at high tide. The final part of the peninsula, lined with pine trees and small hotels is the most attractive stretch of beach. This is also where you’ll find (Vietnam’s first) casino, the Doson Resort Hotel; www.dosonresorthotel.com.vn), which is open to foreigne…
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Vinpearl Land
Nha Trang’s answer to Disneyland (well, sort of) the island resort of Vinpearl Land has fun-fair rides, a water park, arcade games and plenty of other attractions to keep the kiddies amused. There is also an Underwater World aquarium here, but that costs another 60,000/45,000d per adult/child. It’s certainly not a world-class adventure park, but it will keep children amused for a full day, and includes the world’s longest over-the-sea cable car (oooh!) and the biggest wave pool in Southeast Asia (ahhh!). The leading attraction is undoubtedly the water park, with more than 20 serious slides for adrenalin-seekers.
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Thap Ba Hot Spring Center
If hot muddy water is your thing, Thap Ba Hot Spring Center is one of the most fun experiences on offer here. For 180,000d you can sit in a wooden bathtub full of hot thermal mud, or for 60,000d per person you can slop around with a group of friends in a larger pool. The centre also has private mineral baths (50,000d) and a large outdoor heated swimming pool complete with thermal waterfalls (free with a mud or mineral bath, 30,000d otherwise). To get here, follow the signpost on the second road to the left past the Po Nagar Cham Towers and follow the winding road for 2.5km.
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Dai Nam Theme Park
There have been many attempts at theme parks in Vietnam, but few have come close to the real deal. However, this has all just changed with the arrival of Dai Nam Theme Park, located about 30km from Ho Chi Minh City on Hwy 13. The roller-coaster is serious stuff with corkscrews and loops, plus there is a sky dive and a log flume. There are plenty of rides for smaller kiddies and a safari park–style zoo with white tigers, white rhinos and other big animals. Plans are afoot to open a huge water park here during 2009. Local bus 18 runs from Ben Thanh to Dai Nam daily.
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Cong Vien Van Hoa Park Sports Club
The park has an active sports club that is possible to visit. It has 11 tennis courts, a passable swimming pool and a clubhouse, all of which have a faded colonial feel about them. The tennis courts are available for hire at a reasonable fee and hourly tickets are on sale for use of the pool. The antique dressing rooms are quaint, but there are no lockers. There are also Roman-style baths and a coffee shop overlooking the colonnaded pool.
Other facilities include a gymnasium, table tennis, weights, wrestling mats and ballroom-dancing classes.
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