Daily tours in Hoi An, Hoian tours, Hoian travel guide

HA 01: Tra Que vegetable Village – One day / half day

One-day tour
9:00: Reception at Hoi An Travel (6 Tran Hung Dao Street). Ride a bicycle to a local farm in Tra Que village. Introduction to the history of the village, the cultivation of the vegetables as well as discovering about the use of vegetables in traditional Vietnamese medicine. You will take a trip around the vegetable garden and join the farmers in preparing the land and fertilizing it with seaweed from the local lake. Continue doing activities su ch as: raking, sowing,watering greens, picking greens and many more gardening activities. Then spend the rest of the morning working the land in the time honoured way,before breaking to prepare lunch with a local family.Your lunch will consist of many local delicacies including ‘tam huu' spring roll, Banh xeo or the local pancake of the people from the middle region.
After your lunch and the exertions of the morning, take an even more traditional Vietnamese post-prandial nap before learning how to harvest and wrap the vegetables.
Around 15.00, bid farewell to your host family before riding back to Hoi An, on the way back stop at Nhat tomb and Ba Le well. The tour finishes at 16h00.

Half-day tour
The same itinerary as for the one day tour. However, the tour does not include lunch, but you are shown how to prepare ‘tam huu' meal.
Price: Starting from US$ 17 per person , twin share

HA 02: Thanh Nam Fishing Village

Thanh Nam is shaped by the Thu Bon River . Fishermen have come here since time immemorial to cast their nets and catch prawns, crab and fish at the place we now call "Con Chai‿ (Fishing Dune).
Go to the enchanting Thanh Nam Fishing Village , stay and work with the accommodating local people and learn how to catch fish in this traditional fishing area.
F i s h i n g V i l l a g e Thanh Nam is shaped by the Thu Bon River. Fishermen have come here since time immemorial to cast their nets and catch prawns, crab and fish at the place we now call "Con Chai"
(Fishing Dune). Go to the enchanting Thanh Nam Fishing Village, stay and work with the accommodating local people and learn how to catch fish in this traditional fishing area.

One-day programme
9 am: Our local guide will meet you at Hoi An Travel (6 Tran Hung Dao Street) and you will ride by bicycle to Thanh Nam fishing village. Here you will receive a brief introduction to the history of the village and a tour of the display room with its traditional fishing tools such as: basket, net, wooden boat and other original Vietnamese utensils.
After that, we will take you in a boat with some local fisherman to learn how to cast a net and hopefully catch some fish. After bidding farewell to the local fisherman, continue to Dai Chiem estuary to visit the peaceful waterways with their many boats and wharf.
You will have lunch at a local restaurant and return to Hoi An where our programme finishes at 3pm.

Half-day programme
Itinerary is the same as the one-day programme. However, there is no lunch nor boat trip, just return by bicycle.

HA 03: Hoian – My Son Sanctuary

Half-day programme 08.00: Depart from Hoi An Travel (6 Tran Hung Dao) for the ancient Cham ruins of My Son. Once there visit the Tra Kieu capital which was the former administrative center of the Champa Kingdom. Discover the majestic ancient ruins at My Son including the ancient towers, which were built in the fourth century.
Return to Hoi An, on the way visiting local people who breed silkworms and weave silk beside the Thu Bon river. The place is famous for its beautiful, high quality silk. Have lunch in a local restaurant before returning to Hoi An.

HA 04: Lantern Making - One day / half day
One day program
9AM: Our local guide will meet you at Hoi An Travel ( 6 Tran Hung Dao street ) and you will ride by bicycle to the home of a craftsman in the old streets. Here you will have a brief introduction to the history, shape, and colour of the lanterns as well as the many stages of making them. You can make your own lantern and keep it as a souvenir.
After that you will learn to cook traditional Hoi An food, have lunch and relax. After lunch you will be shown how to decorate and pack the lantern, before saying goodbye to your host and returning to Hoi An Travel by bicycle.

HA 05: Kim Bong Village Bycicle Trail

Trip details :
Pick up at Bach Dang port. Leaving for Kim Bong carpentry village by boat (15 min/1 way). Visit Mr. Huynh Ry's home and ship-building yard (20min).
Bicycle tour explores: Tien Hien temple, Kim Buu pagoda, Phan homestead; former French-styled constructed house , paddy-field, Huynh family’s temple, village school, coracle boats, mats weaving, bamboo bridge.
Seeing the local games played by chidden: shoot marbles, skipping, hop, Chinese chess, ong lang, co ganh ...
Have a snack with: corn, cassava, sweet potato and local season fruits such as watermelon, pine-apple.
Go back to the wharf. Optional sailing coracle boat (rowed by local people).

The tour programmes provided by Hoian Travel – the official Travel Agent in Hoian Ancient Town !

HOI AN TRAVEL
10 Tran Hung Dao st., Hoi An Town, Quang Nam Province, Central Viet Nam
Tel: (84.510) 910 444 - Fax: (84.510) 910 445

“Hoi An Eco Tour” of young fisherman 

 It is an interesting tour attracting foreign tourists in Hoi An ancient town, whose author is a young man, 29, originating from a fisherman. He ever worked as a receptionist for the Victoria Hotel in Hoi An.

Welcoming tourists at Cua Hoi ferry, the boat ran towards the Cua Dai (Big Gate) sea. The sun was rising over top of sea waves. At the sea gate, fishermen were collecting the first catch of fish of the day.

Tourists becoming fishermen

Boom! A coracle from the boat was released to the sea. The fishermen were skillful to perform by rowing the coracle. The little Ally, aged 5, daughter of the Chris from Singapore, felt very joyful.

Khoa said that this was the coracle fisherman used to catch cuttlefish in the middle of the sea. All the six tourists wanted to try rowing the coracle. Mr Chris, despite being big and strong, rowed the coracle but it turning round instead of going far. Two children of his laughed joyfully when they took the dar.

When the boat came near a fishing boat of Mr Mai Van Truc who was throwing a casting-net. Khoa explained to Ms Elliott that it was a kind of casting-nets local fishermen used to catch shrimps and fish.

She seemed to be moved and wanted to try with the casting-net. After Truc and Khoa showed her the way, Ms Elliott threw her fist casting-net. When she pulled the casting-net up but caught only seaweed, she was still happy and said: “I have learnt how to catch fish with a casting-net.”

When saying goodbye to Cua Dai fishing village, the boat ran toward the Bay Mau coconut forest, a special zone No 80 of people and soldiers of Quang Nam during the anti-US resistance war. The coracle glided past narrow canals amid green lines of coconut trees. Khoa told the tourists about heroic guerrillas of the Bay Mau forest.

After half an hour of taking part in collecting rubbish in the forest, the tourists enjoyed special seafood dished cooked by Mr Viet – Khoa’s dad.

Father rowing the boat, son guiding tourists

Hoi An Eco Tour Company,
Phuoc Hai Fishing Village Cua Dai District
 Hoi An Town Viet Nam
Tel:++84 510 927 808
Fax:++84 510 862 298
Cell:++84 914 082 850

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