Best Bike and Cooking-Class Days Worldwide — Our Top 7

1.Cai Be Mekong Delta Tour: Cooking Class, Cycling & Craft Villages

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 1,881 reviews · from $39Our pick

Spend 9 to 10 hours exploring Cai Be by boat, bicycle, and air-conditioned van. You’ll see coconut candy and rice popcorn made by hand, visit antique homes, prepare Vietnamese dishes, and cycle through fruit groves. English-speaking guides have included Abe and Mark on past departures, with pickup available in central District 1.

“There were only two of us with our driver and guide. The car and the driver were by far the best we have experienced in Vietnam. The guide spoke very good English, was extremely helpful and polite. He had a broad knowledge of history, cultRead more”

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2.HCM: 2-Day Mekong Delta Floating Market with Cooking & Bike Ride

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 133 reviews · from $66

Travel from Ho Chi Minh City to My Tho and Can Tho for pagodas, river islands, coconut candy, honey tea, folk music, cycling, and an early Cai Rang floating market visit. Your package includes transport, boats, two lunches, breakfast, and a three-star hotel. Guide Hau has led some departures.

“The organisation was a mess. Received a message the night before demanding more money. The first day was with 1 tour company, then we got dropped off to a different tour company. After that I think we were on a different similar tour. Read more”

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3.HCM: 2-Day Mekong Floating Market with Cooking & Bike Ride

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 68 reviews · from $87

Travel from Ho Chi Minh City to My Tho, Ben Tre, and Can Tho for two full days of river life, local food, and village roads. You will visit Cai Rang Floating Market, ride a motorboat and sampan, make Bánh Xèo or Bánh Khọt, and cycle through the countryside. Guides may include Ry, Stephen, Sam, Robert, or Phil.

“Great!! Amazing to be able to interact that much with locals!”

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4.Rural Cycle, Market Tour, Basket Boat & Organic Farm Cooking

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 64 reviews · 4 hours · from $34Best value

Spend four hours cycling from central Hoi An through rice fields and villages, tasting unusual local fruit, riding a quiet basket boat, and helping an organic farm. Guides such as Kun, Khieu, Trang, and Nguyen add local stories before you cook a Vietnamese lunch from garden produce. Vegan and gluten-free meals are available.

“The whole day was packed full of different activities. This is definitely not just your average cooking class. The ONLY thing I would warn about is the bike ride through the city. I was completely fine, but there were kids below 12 in the class and they were very anxious riding through the parts of the city with all the traffic. We ended up stopping mid ride multiple times for them to be able to keep up which is totally understandable. But everyone we met at all the stops were so kind and the actual class itself was so fun and exciting! And of the food was top notch. It…”

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5.Bari: Bike Tour & Pasta Making Experience

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 56 reviews · 2.5 hours · from $98

Start near Piazza Mercantile with a bike, helmet, and guide, then pedal through Bari’s old streets, Basilica of St. Nicholas, squares, castle, and cathedral. At a local woman’s home, make orecchiette by hand, enjoy pasta with tomato sauce and a glass of wine, and return to Velo Service. Guides may speak English, French, Spanish, German, or Italian.

“Onze gids Frederica maakte de tour echt af. Al fietsend gingen we door Bari, terwijl zij vol enthousiasme vertelde over alles wat we zagen. Het zelf maken van de pasta maakte de tour af, al had dit wat ons betrof wel iets langer mogen duren.”

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6.Cai Be Mekong Delta: Cooking Class, Cycling, Craft Villages

★★★★★★★★★★4.4 · 36 reviews · from $36

Travel from Ho Chi Minh City to Cai Be for a small-group day of village walks, shared boats, canal paddling, cycling, folk music, ancient homes, and a hands-on Vietnamese lunch. Guides such as Peter, Min, and Jonathan have been praised for friendly English service. Allow roughly 2 to 2.5 hours each way by road.

“Very well organised trip. ‘Peter’, our Vietnamese guide, was excellent. He was very polite, helpful, friendly and spoke good English, and was easy to understand. (Prepare for a 2.5 hour coach journey from HCMC to Mekong delta/Cai Be floating market. But we stopped at a very nice refreshment station en route). . We did so much in one day - handling bees/drinking snake wine/preparing our own Vietnamese-style lunch plus extra food which never stop coming from the kitchen!/kayaking/ watching a traditional Vietnamese performance/and a fun bike ride at the end.Read more”

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7.Biking and cooking class in the rural tour at Can Tho

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 11 reviews · from $36

From central Can Tho, an English-speaking guide takes you by road and ferry to a rural fruit garden. You’ll cycle quiet country trails, see local fruit and flowers, then cook Vietnamese dishes with a host and eat lunch with lotus tea. Guides Gin and Thrin have earned praise for their warm, helpful approach.

“It was a very nice tour. Our guide (Gin) was extremely nice and lovely! She made the tour a thousand times better.”

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