Meet a local in Vietnam | Pyala local travel experience

Enhance your travelexperience in Vietnam and meet a local with one of our specially designed meet-a-local excursions, from cooking classes to city walks.

Meet a local in Vietnam


Personal Encounters while travelling
Our Meet-a-Local activitites are especially recommended. Visit local people to share a cup of tea or even cook a meal together. You visit people in their private homes, see how they live, share their traditions, and exchange information and ideas. Or just have fun together! Eating and cooking together is one thing, but there's even more!

Take a walk through the city and see it through the eyes of a local, get to places you thought you never could visit, meet people, and smell and taste the local food during one of our street food tours.

All these meet-a-local activities are meant to give you a once-in a-lifetime experience!

Some meet-a-local activities might already be included in the tours. Missing something? You can request our local partner for more information!


Meet a local in Vietnam - Streetfood tour Vietnam

Meet a local in Hanoi- eat with a family at home!


You will be picked up at 16:30 at your hotel to walk with your local guide through the Old Quarter known as the "36 Guild Streets." It's quite an experience to walk through the narrow, ancient streets, many of which are named for the products that are sold there. You visit the Dong Xuan market and will eventually cross the Dormer Steels Bridge (sometimes called Long Bien Bridge). You will notice that the neighborhood on the other side of the bridge is much calmer compared to the Old Quarter. Here you visit a local market where the guide will tell you all about the various products and the preparation of Vietnamese food. After a short walk, you arrive at the house of the Vietnamese family. You will be introduced and then cook together. Then you eat the meal you made with the family, a truly unique experience!

€20,- PER PERSON
VIETNAM - MEET A LOCAL! – EAT WITH A VIETNAMESE FAMILY IN HUE

At 16:00 you will be picked up at your hotel. Today, you will discover Hue in a very special way, namely by bike! Together with your guide you bike to the Trang Tien Bridge and the Don Ba market through a beautiful and quiet landscape. En route you visit a local market where the guide will tell you all about the various products and the preparation of typical Vietnamese food. Then you arrive at the home of the Vietnamese family where you are going to cook, a unique experience! Together you prepare a delicious Vietnamese meal to eat together. During dinner you'll get a good picture of Vietnamese culture and history.
VIETNAM - MEET A LOCAL! – EAT WITH A VIETNAMESE FAMILY IN HO CHI MINH

A unique experience! You will be picked up at 16:00 at your hotel and then walk with your guide to a local market. The guide will tell you here all about the different products and preparation of typical Vietnamese meal. Then you walk on to the house of the family where you are invited to help in the kitchen! Together you prepare a delicious Vietnamese meal. What a special and personal way to get to know the Vietnamese culture and cuisine. An experience you will never forget!