Hoi An Tour: Experience Countryside Culture with Lantern Making, Basket Boating, and Crab Fishing

Immerse yourself in the culture of central Vietnam with this countryside tour in Hoi An. Experience lantern making, basket boating, and crab fishing, followed by a delicious traditional lunch.

Duration: 5 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Bay Mau Coconut Forest - Morning tour: 8:30am to 1:00pm Afternoon tour: 2:00pm to 6:30pm
    You will be picked up by car by local tour guides at the hotel. And take you to the Hoi An lantern making class. Lantern maker will guide you from the first to last step, how to make your own Hoi An lantern to take home. Once completed, these lanterns are easy…
What's Included
  • Life jacket, umbrella, and raincoat
  • Pick-up and drop-off at accommodation in Hoi An
  • Return to fisherman house and rest
  • Enjoy lunch or dinner
  • Rowing a basket boat and catching crab
  • Coconut village photo opportunities
  • A bottle of water
  • Basket boat ride and transportation
  • English-speaking guide (chef)
What's Not Included
  • if we pick you up in Danang,you pay extra 17USD per pax for pick up & Drop…
Additional Information

This experience provides a unique perspective on the rural traditions of central Vietnam. Discover another side of Hoi An through a rural tour where you will engage in actual crab fishing in the canals of the Bay Mau Nipa forest. Coconut Village, once renowned for its distinctive basket boat fishing technique, is now open for visitors to experience. Be…

Location
10 Đường Phan Bội Châu
Đường Phan Bội Châu
please arrive 1hour before your selected start time for pickup your operator can coordinate exact time and location
Cancellation Policy

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

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Murrayb373
Feb 18, 2025
Vietnamese cooking class in Hoi An Vietnam - One of the best cooking classes I have ever done. Our chef Tran was very friendly, showing us how to make some delicious Vietnamese dishes. After preparing the dishes we ate everything. Highly recommended for a different side of Hoi An. A must do for any traveller to learn some local skills. I can't wait to get back to Australia to try these amazing dishes out on friends and family. A truly scrumptious tour
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Chris
Jan 8, 2025
Great experience to learn some Vietnamese cooking - Great host Picked up hotel quick tour and most of time spent cooking a great meal Very outgoing and friendly host/chef Had a great time and received the recipes after
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Alejandro
Dec 19, 2024
Awesome half day 😍 - Very cool and personalized activity, awesome. I've been very lucky with Trump the guide. It is the best if you come is a must of the city 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽
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Carolinecv4615qh
Nov 21, 2024
Many different dishes 👌 - Amazing cooking class. We were a small group of 8 people and we cooked many different dishes (not only the traditionnal spring rolls 😉). I recommend this class !
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Bargainbinbec
Nov 4, 2024
Best day in Hoi An. Highly recommend this experience! - Had such a beautiful experience yesterday! First we started with making a traditional lantern. Which was harder then it looks and made me truly appreciate the craftsmanship involved. Next off to the coconut village. Sam our coconut boat captain was so much fun. Make sure you pay the tiny bit extra to spin fast on one of the coconut boats. Just make sure you don’t eat before haha. Sam showed us fishing techniques and we caught and released a little crab. To end the day we had an authentic Vietnamese home cooked meal. Every dish was so flavourful and fresh. Highly recommend this tour for anyone visiting Hoi An!
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Explore08343238246
Nov 4, 2024
Favourite day spent in Hoi An - From start to finish the whole experience was amazing, from making lanterns to catching crabs, enjoying the coconut boat ride, to eating the best traditional food Hoi An has to offer, the banana salad was 10/10, super fresh ingredients and the flavours were delicious. Would definitely go back!
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335giacomos
Oct 25, 2024
Best tour in hoi an - Tra is the best and food was great, not only because I cooked it, also experiencing the market was very interesting and different from whatever other market you can find in the center of hoi an
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C915lyadamb
Oct 12, 2024
Perfect day! - Absolutely recommend! Such a fun authentic day, beautiful people and food. The hosts throughout the day made such an effort to make us feel welcome. Cảm ơn Adam and Cassie
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Cessairk
Oct 12, 2024
Good food, fun day - Very nice day out :) the food was great. To be able to make a lantern to take home was very nice. The basket boat ride was fun. A lot of tourists but beautiful views
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David
Mar 3, 2025
Pick a different trip if you can. Not worth the cost. - We had to walk to the lantern making class which was fairly close to our hotel after getting directions by text message the night before. The class was good and the lady was lovely. We got picked up from there by car to go to the river. We went for a boat ride which was good but the crab fishing was not good. My husband got handed a fishing rod with a bit of bait on a hook and told to put it in the water which was for less than 1 minute. I didn’t get offered a fishing rod. We also only saw 1 net cast by a fisherman and he caught nothing. My husband was asked if he wanted to be spun in one of the boats which he did but he had to pay 100000 dong. We went back to the house where we left from and my husband & I sat in the yard by ourselves while two lovely ladies prepared us a lovely 5 course lunch at 11 am which was very early for lunch. We then got picked up and delivered to our hotel. I think this activity was very expensive for what you received however the lunch was very good.
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