Hạ Long Bay, located on Việt-Nam’s northeastern seacoast in the Gulf of Tonkin, is about 105 miles from Hà Nội and an UNESCO recognized World Heritage site for its magical landscape of rocky formations and crystal blue waters and geomorphology. Its name means "descending dragon" and the bay has over 2,000 limestone islands and [Read More ...]

Highlights. Who You’ll Meet. Where You’ll Sip & Savor. Coffee Making Class, A Taste of Hà Nội Food Walking Tour, and Tea Tasting Ceremony. Coffee is more than just a drink in Việt-Nam, it’s deeply woven into the social and economic fabric of the country. Việt-Nam is the 2nd largest coffee exporter and its [Read More ...]

Highlights. Who You’ll Meet. Where You’ll Sip & Savor. Mai Châu Local Cooking Class and Lunch. Mai Châu’s cuisine is very different from what you have experienced in Hà Nội. We’ve designed a special cooking class with a tour of the local market as a wonderful way for you to learn more about Mai [Read More ...]

Mai Châu, 90 miles southwest of Hà Nội, is a remote village in a lush valley with terraced rice fields surrounded by green mountains. It is home to 7 of the 54 Vietnamese ethnic tribes whose ancestors immigrated from Southern China in the 13th century and who have their own languages, distinctive cultural customs, [Read More ...]

Highlights. Who You’ll Meet. Where You’ll Sip & Savor. Market Tour, Cooking Class, and Lunch We will begin our first full day in Hà Nội with a delightful Local Chef who will guide us on a tour of a Ha Noi market to purchase seasonally fresh ingredients for our hands-on cooking class of traditional [Read More ...]

We begin our Việt-Nam Culinary Escapade in Northern Vietnam, the cradle of Vietnamese civilization. It was here that after a millennium of Chinese domination, the first truly independent state of Việt-Nam was created in 938, and it would take centuries of conquest and migration for the country to reach what we now consider Central [Read More ...]