Vietnam Vespa Adventures Tour of Saigon
Carmen and Dave from go on a Vietnam Vespa Adventures Tour of Saigon. Join them for the ride!
From the blog: As you probably already know by now, Dave and I aren’t really tour people. We often like to go out on our own, and if you can experience something independently, then we feel that (for us) it’s better to do it solo.
But riding a scooter was not going to be an independent journey for us.
Enter Vietnam Vespa Adventures. Our friends who’d visited us from China the week earlier said they’d used this company to do a tour of the Meekong Delta and raved highly of it. “They really knew their stuff and it was a great day,” our friend Kevin said.
I logged on to their website and saw they had a day tour around Saigon’s centre called the Insider’s Saigon tour. They were going to take us on a highlight tour of the city. Mode of transport? A vintage Vespa.
We were in.
A park where the birds socialise
We were picked up from our apartment at 8am, still yawning. We woke up quickly as we jumped on the back of a Vespa and our guides manoeuvred into the thick of rush hour traffic. Intense! A bus nearly clipped our scooter, but my driver was non-plussed, I think near misses are far from a rare occurrence in Saigon.
We were taken to Tao Dan Park and found it busy with men drinking coffee on small tables as their caged birds chirped to each other above them.
“These birds aren’t for sale,” our guide explained. “They are owned by these men, who come to the park each morning between 7 and 9. They like to see their birds socialise with one another.”
But looking around us, it was clear that the men were enjoying the socialising, sipping on strong café sua das, just as much as their birds were.
Memorial to an amazing act that denies belief
Our next stop wasn’t so light-hearted. We hopped back on the Vespas and scootered off to the
Thích Quảng Đức memorial. Now, this Buddhist monk’s name may not have any recognition for you, but you probably remember this photo that was broadcast around the world:
Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death on the 10th of June 1963 in the middle of Saigon, without making a noise nor moving a muscle, deep in meditation. Why’d he do it? He was protesting against the government’s attempts to ban Buddhism throughout Vietnam.
“Thích Quảng Đức’s body was re-cremated at his funeral but his heart didn’t burn,” our guide explained to us. “Still intact, it was thought to be a symbol of compassion.”
My hairs stood up on end.
The memorial is built on the same site where Thích Quảng Đức sacrificed himself and it’s a striking tribute to someone willing to stand up for what they believe in – even through the most painful of deaths.
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Saigon After Dark Vespa Adventures Tours in Ho Chi Minh
We got to experience riding the local transportation, taste the authentic Vietnamese Food and experience the city night life aboard vintage Vespa rides!
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Saigon After Dark - Vespa Adventures
This is the quintessential night tour of Saigon. A combination of the best food, culture, and nightlife that Saigon has to offer. This tour remains to be a favorite because it shows all aspects of Saigon in a single tour.
This Saigon night tour is part night excursion, part street food adventure. Experience Saigon nightlife the way locals do, all from the back of a vintage Vespa scooter.
To start off this Saigon night tour, enjoy drinks at our Vespa-themed café, Café Zoom, to watch “as the world goes by” (as said in the Lonely Planet guide book). Throughout the night, try a variety of food and drinks at 2 local restaurants and samplings of Saigon’s best authentic local food. Zoom past the famous must-see sights of Ho Chi Minh City while in the bustling traffic. We’ll also go to a Vietnamese-style coffee shop with special live music, and then wrap up the evening at an exciting music bar where the new generation of Vietnamese unwind and flaunt their unique styles.
Guests ride pillion behind our drivers to enjoy and experience the Vietnamese nightlife with friends. This tour includes free flowing drinks and all you can eat, so come with an appetite!
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This day just made my Vietnam experience & Ho Chi Minh City even better! :) It was exhilarating, fun, heart racing & just an absolute awesome way to check out heaps of main attractions plus places that a bus or even by foot wouldn't have seen! A little more expensive then other tours but worth every penny!!
Vespa Adventures | Saigon After Dark
Vespa Adventures world famous Saigon After Dark Tour is a must do experience in the Vietnamese city. Featured in Lonely Planet, CNN Travel, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, Vogue and many more the Saigon After Dark Tour is an essential part of experiencing Saigon.
This is the quintessential night tour of Saigon. A combination of the best food, culture, and nightlife that Saigon has to offer. This tour remains to be a favorite because it shows all aspects of Saigon in a single tour.
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The Insider’s Saigon - Vespa Adventures
Join the bustling streets of Ho Chi Minh City on the back of a Vespa scooter and see more than you could find on your own. This is the best way to see the city in a day.
See a Saigon local’s lifestyle. Our Vespa tour of modern-day Ho Chi Minh City will give you a view of the city unlike anything on a package tour, and much more than you could find on your own. We know Saigon, and exactly how to take in the must-see landmarks while getting you off the crowded tourist trail. Take a peek at the history, the streets and the sights that most visitors never even hear about or see. We’ll take you through the Chinese district of Saigon, stop to see a sweet smelling flower market, & visit a breathetaking yet hidden Buddhist pagoda. Also see the must-see landmarks such as the famous Saigon Opera House & Post Office which were designed by Gustave Eiffel. Depending on the time of day you wish to take the tour, we will begin or end with a lunch at Café Zoom.
Saigon After Dark tour - Vietnam Vespa Adventures
Part night excursion, part street/local food adventure. Guests experience the nightlife of Saigon the way locals do, all from the back of a vintage Vespa scooter. Stops include drinks at Zoom cafe to watch the world goes by (as said in the Lonely Planet guide book), food and drinks at local restaurants (one stop for sea food and one stop for Southern food), samplings of Saigon's best authentic street/local food, a Vietnamese-style coffee shop (with live music) and wrapping up the evening at one of the many local nightclubs (with live music) , where the new generation of Vietnamese unwind and flaunt their unique style. Guests ride pillion behind our drivers to enjoy and experience the Vietnamese night life with friends...
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Our Vespa tour of modern-day Ho Chi Minh City will give you a view of Saigon unlike anything you'll see from a package tour, and much more of the city than you could see on your own. We're longtime residents of Saigon, and we know exactly how to take in the must-see landmarks while also getting you off the crowded tourist trail for a peek at the history, the streets and the sights that most visitors never even hear about or see. Guests ride pillion behind our drivers. Check us out on TripAdvisor and see what others have said.
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Vietnam Vespa Adventures in Hoi An
Carmen and Dave from go on another Vietnam Vespa Adventures tour, this time in Hoi.
From the blog: Our tour would take in the verdant countryside surrounding Hoi An where farmers grow wide green fields of rice, long horned buffalos chill out in mud pits and all manner of ducks, geese, ducks and chickens chirp and peck amid the vegetable and herb crops. Out there, people work in the heat and the rain, unchanged traditions for hundreds of years.
We slapped on sunglasses, sunscreen and long trousers and packed our hats and plenty of water, then were picked up on beautifully presented Vespa scooters by our drivers at around eight am. I reckon the temperature was already hovering close to thirty degrees Celsius, and from the growing triumph of the sun it would get hotter still.
Our first stop was the ferry dock by the inlet river, and our drivers threaded us through the bright blacktop streets of Hoi An’s old town where you won’t find on air-conditioned building.
It’s all UNESCO heritage listed to protect the character of the French style stucco buildings. But the tree-lined boulevards throw plenty of shade, and we took a few short cuts through narrow laneways throbbing with cooler air and startled pedestrians.
Hoi An began its life many centuries ago as a trading post that took advantage of its natural harbour and reliable waterways. The French colonists developed it as a port town and the riches that flowed through it eddied into classical buildings, many painted yellow, and at night they are lit up with a kaleidoscope of colourful lanterns, making it all seem like a dream, even in the bright light of day.
The shade blinked away as we emerged into the unforgiving heat of the docks where a wooden ferry hip and shouldered the quay, swinging on the morning tide. Our Vespas were loaded on board and we boarded – “watch your head,” ringing in my ears as I bashed my head on the low beams of the sunshade.
The ropes were cast away and our venerable craft chugged away under the power of its clapped out marine diesel, brackish smells of tide and the day’s catch of fish following us. The bow aimed for Cam Kim island, and in no time at all the hull swung to port at the other side and docked with a nudge.
Back on the bikes, legs up and over onto hot seats, our drivers gunned us through a small village shaded by phalanxes of bamboo and willow trees then took us along a long canal where dredges were going hammer and tongs to create a new rice paddy. Everywhere people were working – digging ditches, threshing rice fields, sowing crops or riding scooters hither and thither. The temperature was pushing thirty degrees by now, but the morning’s work had only just gotten warm.
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