Hoi An | Fun Cooking Experience (,L)
Today enjoy a delightful cooking session outside the ancient town at Hai Scout Café, led by a chef from Red Bridge Restaurant.

We start the day (8am) with a welcome drink at Hai Café – our meeting point.

Travel by minivan (10 mins) to Tra Que Organic Village, and walk through the market gardens where local farmers work their fields using the traditional methods of hundreds of years ago - no electrical machinery here. We pick fresh saw-tooth coriander and Vietnamese mint for our cooking lesson later, before trying a special herbal drink at a local home.

To the local village market and with shopping list in hand we purchase a range of local ingredients, including star anise, cardamom, sesame rice paper, water spinach and banana flower

Arriving at Red Bridge Cooking School we have a chance to freshen up before beginning our class. Working together with our Red Bridge Chef we learn the traditional ways of preparing and cooking Vietnamese food from scratch. Using the freshest ingredients and traditional Vietnamese utensils (still in use today) we cook 4 famous dishes, including the national dish ‘Pho’.  

After the class we sit down and a chance to savour the dishes we have prepared. 
Leisurely cruise (25 minutes) along the Hoi An River back to central Hoi An.

Dinner at a local Hoi An Restaurant. Hoi An’s niest one with a lush landscaped garden in a wonderful riverside French colonial house. Free at leisure and explore Hoi An night on your own way. Overnight in Hoi An.

    ·      HOIAN SIGHT-SEEING TOUR/CAMTHANH COCONUT VILLAGE (L) : After breakfast it is a full day excursion to go around tiny town of Hoi An for city tour. We would set the feet on narrow hundreds year old street lined with unique combinational of Vietnamese Chinese and Japanese architecture: : 400 years old Japanese Bridge, 300 years old Chinese temple, 200 years old Vietnamese former merchants' house. Then we carry on to most notable assembly houses, silk shops for your favorable goods.  Lunch at local restaurant.

Afternoon take a basket boat trip experience at Thu bon river. For being a fisherman at Cam Thanh eco water coconut village, you will enjoy experience from learning traditional fishing  technique and how to row unique Vietnamese bamboo basket boat while exploring the tranquil coconut palm waterways

  ·    HOIAN/SANCTUARY MY SON (L)  : Pick up from hotel in Hoi An and drive to the imperial city of the Champa Empire of the 4th to 12th centuries. My Son Sanctuary is a large complex of religious ruins comprising more than 70 architechural remains. UNESCO recognized the Cham architecture in My Son as a Cultural Heritage site in 1999. Back to Hoi An for lunch.