2-Day Live Like A Saigonese - Overnight Homestay Experience in Ho Chi Minh City
2-Day Live Like A Saigonese - Overnight Homestay Experience in Ho Chi Minh City
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2-Day Live Like A Saigonese - Overnight Homestay Experience in Ho Chi Minh City

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Gain your deeper insight to Vietnamese Culture and local life style by a unique exeperience when you stay with a local family. During 2-day homestay tour you will have chances to enjoy the intimate interactions with local people including 2 cooking class with the hostest, explore the streetfood tour by Honda or public bus, visit a home factory where people make furniture, have breakfast with local noodle and stop at a quaint coffee shop and one of the famous hair salon to enjoy hair wash and facial massage.





  • Spend 1 night overstay in a local family and have cooking class with the hostest
  • Visit a local market to buy the ingredient for home cooking class
  • Experience a street-food dinner with honda tour
  • Stop by a local kindergarten
  • Relax at a famous hair salon with hair washing and facial massage
  • Pick up and send-off to hotel in the city by air-con vehicle

Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City (L, D)

In the morning, your guide will meet you at the hotel than lead you to a local market where you learn about local ingredients and buy vegetables, spicies and other ingredients for your home cooking class. Practise your bargaining skill to get the good price of your purchase.

From the market, go to your homestay, meet with the hostest, have a cup of of tea and fruit then take a short rest in your room before your cooking lunch instructed by the hostest.

This is a lifetime experience that you learn about the Vietnamese cuisine and gain more skills of cooking. Have lunch with the food you cooked then take a short nap.

In the afternoon, discover Saigon as a local with a honda or a bus roaming around city. First stop is at a local coffee shop to have a cup café in the Saigonese style. Next, explore the variety of Vietnamese streetfood stalls in Saigon. You may stop at Banh Xeo (Southern Vietnamese cripsy rice pancake ) where you learn how to roll this rice pancake in a large mustard green leaf, or visit a Hue ‘s speciality food stall. Hue is the old Royal city of Vietnam located in the Central. Hue’s cuisine is famous with Com Hen (rice with mussels), Bun Bo (Hue style beef noodle soup) and many kinds of steamed rice cake coved by banana leaf. Continue with Hanoi style grilled pork with vermicelli called Bun Cha – a typical favourist dish of Northen people. Tasting all those delicious food, even with a mall bite of each, you may be filled up for dinner.

Continue to visit the flower Market Back to your home stay to prepare and cook a Saigonese sweet dessert “Che chuoi” – a seet banana soup cooked with coconut milk.

In the evening, Roam around the local’spot such as Nguyen Hue walking street where you will see youths, families, children enjoy their leisure time outdoor, or drop by the beer clubs on the river banks have some drinks with top DJ playing the colorful laser lighting. Overnight in your homestay in Ho Chi Minh city.

Day 2: Ho Chi Minh City (B, L)

Enjoy breakfast as local with a bowl of “Phở”, a very popular Vietnamese noodle in one of the most famous Pho Noodle shop in city. After breakfast, take a stroll through the mall alleys where the real local daily life activities revealed. You may stop by a kindergarten to see the kids in the initinal stage of their school (one working days)

Experience a lunch in the longest time operated rice stall of Saigon. Come here you will witness a very unique way of doing business : No menu –No price indicated.All of cooked food placed in the stall, guests come and point out the dishs the want then food will be served at their table. After finishing their meal, the money collector comes and anounces the amount to pay, guests will pay without any questions. After your lunch, it’s time to unwind at a local hair salon with shampoo and facial massage. Return to your local house, say goodbye to your host and back to your hotel in Ho Chi Minh city. End the tour.


Inclusions

  • Transport as mentioned in the program
  • Overnight shared home stay accommodation
  • Meals as per itinerary (B=breakfast, L=lunch, D=dinner)
  • Professional guide
  • Entrance fees
  • Cooking lesson
  • Mineral water at home stay

Exclusions

  • Gratuities (optional)
  • Food and drinks which is not mentioned in the inclusion

Additional info

  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Please advise any food dietary request at time of your booking

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