Hanoi motorbike tour, Hoi An cooking class among top travel experiences in Asia

Hanoi motorbike tour and Hoi An cooking class have been selected by readers of US travel site Tripadvisor as two of the 25 best travel experiences in Asia.
Hanoi motorbike tour, Hoi An cooking class among top travel experiences in Asia ảnh 1The Hanoi motorbike tour takes more than four hours. (Source: Tripadvisor)
Hanoi (VNA) –  Hanoi motorbike tour and Hoi An cooking class have been selected by readers of US travel site Tripadvisor astwo of the 25 best travel experiences in Asia.

The half-day guided motorbike tour in Hanoiallows tourists to explore Vietnam’s capital city’s famous landmarks like LongBien Bridge, Hai Ba Trung Temple, the Presidential Palace Historical Site andtry some of the city's best street foods.

As part of the tour, visitors will have anopportunity to explore "Train Street", formed by railway tracksrunning alongside Dien Bien Phu and Phung Hung streets in the heart of Hanoi'sOld Quarter, with residential buildings just a few feet away on either side.

Meanwhile, the five-hour cooking class, organisedby Hoi An Eco Tours Discovery, is considered a fun and interesting way to experience the rurallife in Hoi An, a popular tourist destination in Vietnam’s central Quang Namprovince, and Vietnamese cuisine.

Hanoi motorbike tour, Hoi An cooking class among top travel experiences in Asia ảnh 2The five-hour cooking class is a good way to experience the rural life in Hoi An and Vietnamese cuisine. (Source: Tripadvisor)
Participants will visit CamThanh fishing village, about five kilometers from Hoi An, where they will betaught how to use basket boats, a dispensable part of local fishermen, andexperience a bamboo basket boat tour in Bay Mau nipa palm forest. After such eco-tour activities, they will be welcomed in the restaurant and participate in cooking around 2 hours with the chef. 

On top of the list is Thai and Akha CookingClass in Thailand's Chiang Mai, followed by the Khmer cooking class at aLocal's Home in Cambodia's Krong Siem Reap and sunrise tour of Angkor Wat.

This year, an Amsterdam open boat canalcruise was the world's best travel experience.

The selections have taken into accountreviews and ratings from solely the past 12 months, trawling through the datato figure out which experiences have gathered the most positive responses fromits online community./.

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