The World’s 6 Best Bike Workshops

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.Paella Class, Winery & Bike Ride – Free Hotel Pickup from Sitges

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 69 reviews · 5 to 6 hours (approx.) · from $119

Alex leads a 5 to 6 hour outing from Sitges into the Penedès wine country. You’ll cycle through vineyards, visit nine-generation Caves Romagosa Torne, taste cava, and prepare your choice of seafood, meat, vegetarian, or black paella. Pickup, bikes, helmets, water, lunch, and one drink are included.

“Easy cycle ride around the vineyard followed by winery tour, cava tasting and paella making. Alex and our hosts at the winery were sociable. The tours were interesting and we learnt a lot about the wine making process.”

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

★★★★★★★★★★4.4 · 36 reviews · from $36Best value

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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4.Oaxaca City: Bike Tour with Professional Guide+Art workshop

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 23 reviews · 2 - 4 hours · from $37

Ride through six Oaxaca City landmarks with a bilingual guide, stopping at the General Cemetery, Jalatlaco, El Llano, Xochimilco, Santo Domingo, and La Soledad. The small group is limited to eight, with safety support behind the riders. On 8:00 am departures, add an art workshop where you create an engraving to take home.

“Génial ..!! Balade en vélo 👌 Une autre façon de découvrir le centre-ville de Oaxaca de s’arrêter au monument historique avec un super guide !!👍 Attentif et très gentil 🙂 Ensuite nous avons été à l’atelier d’art, Très intéressant si attentive et explicite ligne avec à la clé notre chef-d’œuvre😁 nous avons beaucoup aimé cette activité👌👌”

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5.Alberobello: e-bike tour and orecchiette class

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 13 reviews · 4 hours · from $55

Ride with local guide Rocco from Alberobello into the Valle d’Itria, passing trulli, vineyards, dry stone walls, and olive groves. At a family-run mill, Pasqua shows you how wheat becomes flour. Then make orecchiette by hand, cook it, and enjoy lunch with wine. Bring your own e-bike or rent one locally.

“This tour was the best tour we have ever taken! The e bikes were fantastic, the countryside beautiful and the stop at the flour mill to learn how to make and eat orrechietti was amazing! Rocco was personable and entertaining and genuinely cared about all of us on the tour. We will be back again with our family next year and will definitely be doing it again. Grazie Mille!”

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6.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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