Saigon Morning Tour: Explore Hidden Island & Local Life

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Ho Chi Minh City

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Experience the hidden gems of Saigon on a morning walking food tour. Discover authentic local life, taste delicious Vietnamese street food, and explore unseen historical places.

Duration: 4 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

AN Tours Vietnam - At 8:00 AM, your local guide will come to you hotel and pick you up at your accommodation by taxi and head up to district 7 where is non- tourist area for starting the food adventure. While staying at the first stop to start your day with Mini Cooking class : making “Banh Cuon Trung“ and also taste the best “Pho chua dac biet”…

What's Included

Private transportation
All meals included (breakfast, lunch, and snacks)
Complimentary bottled water, tea, and coffee
Selection of alcoholic beverages
Inclusive of all activities in the tour

What's Not Included

If you stay in district 1,3 and 4, we will free of charge. if not, it will be 5$ extra/person

Additional Information

Despite its vast size,
most visitors only get to experience the popular and easily accessible regions of Saigon. Hence, this MORNING WALKING TOUR is designed to guide you to a distinctive island in HCMC, impossible to locate unassisted. Over a period of 4 hours, you’ll uncover genuine local lifestyle, discover hidden historical sites and sample…

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AN Tours Vietnam

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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N2428bmmaryc

Jul 21, 2023

The greatest street food tour we have taken - (and we have been on plenty of them) - Henry was wonderful. Tour was wonderful, food was delicious and so much that we wound up taking our banh mi back to the cruise ship - just couldn't fit any more food in. When we told Henry we wanted to buy some coffee beans he took us to a special place and he was right the coffee beans were wonderful. The four of us agree we would repeat the tour. Henry and the food were just that good.

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Nickck8851yh

Jul 12, 2023

An Authentic Local Experience Like No Other - Highly Recommended! - We had the best morning with Henry exploring District 7 in Ho Chi Minh City! This isn't a usual touristy place, but it's so vibrant and busy you really feel like you're living like a local. Henry is the best guide! He's really friendly, easy to understand, and knows so much about the place and the food. He's originally from Central Vietnam, so we got to try a few of yummy dishes his home region. Every spot we ate at was delicious, with food like nothing we'd ever tasted before. We also got to see the local markets with Henry, which was super fun and colorful. We were looking for a traditional Vietnamese hat, and Henry found just the right shop for us when we couldn't find it. Talk about going the extra mile! If you have kids this tour is perfect for families. Our little ones had a great time and Henry made sure they were happy and having fun the whole time. If you're in Ho Chi Minh City and want to do something really fun and different, you've got to take a District 7 tour with Henry. We learned a lot, had a ton of fun and ate delicious food. It was an amazing day we won't forget. Thanks Henry - you're the best!

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Adrian

Jun 5, 2023

Fabulous food tour in Saigon - If you’re looking for an authentic experience walking the side streets and alleyways of Saigon eating fabulous Vietnamese street cuisine and immersing yourself in daily life of this fabulous city, this tour is for you. The food is delicious and safe to eat. Our tour guide was outstanding!

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Lynnns2018

Jun 5, 2023

Delicious Tour! You shound do this... - We had an awesome morning with Henry - Henry, our guide met us at the cruise port and took care of everything. We had more food than we could eat, got to try our hand at rice pancake making, and walked and ate happily. What a wonderful adventure, all of the food was delicious, interesting and offered by small vendors. Henry was personable, and answered all of our questions. Highly recommend.

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Voyager588293

Jun 5, 2023

Happy belly - A most illuminating food tour with a surfeit of variety and high quality victuals. Come hungry, leave unable to move except to breathe through your mouth

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Erictx2287vh

May 5, 2023

Awesome food tour at district 7 HCM!! - Awesome food tour ended up became a private tour all to myself. Thanks Lucie for the great accommodations!! Helped me to booked grab, buying me fruits to eat at hotel etc etc and also offer for helping me if I have any trouble communicating with others after this trip!! What a wonderful person and pretty girl too!! Highly recommended this trip!!

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Athycay

Jan 9, 2020

Get to know another area of Saigon! - Guide Sön was very good. We got to make little cakes. It was so much fun. All the food was delicious. Guide is so friendly and introduced us to many lovely people and dining experiences.

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W8270rrdanap

Dec 9, 2019

Walking Tour - My family had a walking food tour with Son in district 7 of Ho Chi Minh today. It was an AMAZING tour. Son was so friendly and we really enjoyed walking around with him. He knew so much about Vietnamese culture and we learned a lot about Vietnam that we wouldn't have known by just walking around on our own. He took us to an area that tourists rarely go to and we got to see the local markets. We tried food that we never would have known to order. We also got to cook food with a local at one spot! The food was all delicious and we had a wonderful time. We wish we had booked tours with Son for more than one day! 😅😅 We HIGHLY recommend A.N Tours to anyone new to Vietnam and who may be nervous about eating street food.

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Pavla_t

Nov 9, 2019

Great walk - Sunny my tour guide took me trough different districts and showed me Saigon. I have learned a lot of things and sampled some great food. I have also cooked. Highly recommend 10 out of 10. Thank you Sunny

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Mumsybear

Nov 5, 2019

Disappointing and poor value tour - A group of us (4 ladies) booked this tour being enticed by the PR blurb of going to a "unique island" and "mini-cooking class" thinking that we would be brought to lots of street food stops and enjoy some unique local experiences or places. Our guide was a young lady (Sunny) who spoke good English and was on time meeting us at our hotel. We then went to District 3 by Grab and were brought to a caramelized pork with rice stall to have what she calls a local breakfast. The food was quite OK and after the dish (which most of us did not finish knowing that there would be quite a number of food stops which is the norm for these type of food tours) and she asked how full we were (20%, 50%, more?) and 1 or 2 of us said about 30%. We then walked the local markets and she did point out some interesting things and brought us to a fruit seller where she bought a couple of local fruits "to eat later". We also had a cup of local orange juice takeaway. Probably the best part of the tour was when she brought us to the local public housing in the District walking along the corridors and getting an upclose glimpse of the units there. After that we were taken by Grab to District 7 (this is the so-called unique island) where we went to a shop that made Vietnamese rice rolls and the "mini-cooking lesson" involved us in making a rice roll pancake each. We then had a 2 types of rolls there. FInally we were brought to a Coffee ship which was a unused vessel surrounded by rubbish and flotsam and had a drink there. Sunny then went off to buy 4 tiniest caramel flan in a plastic cup each as dessert. Unfortunately, we did not really feel any charm about the place and the drink and the "sad looking" dessert was totally disappointing. After we left the coffee ship, we were told that that was the end of the tour and we took a Grab back to our hotel. Whilst Sunny is a nice girl, she appears inexperienced but perhaps the most disappointing is the very few food stops, all of which are not of any value in terms of cost and experience, and also the selection of such stops. We paid around USD50 per person and believe we got at max USD15 per person of food & drinks - an utterly waste of time and money. We had gone for another evening street food tour 2 nights earlier and paid less for 7 food stops and an informative tour.

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up to 15 guests

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