Saigon Breakfast, History and Traditional Coffee
7:30 AM: Meet your Ho Chi Minh tour guide at your hotel and get to know each other. As a first gift, receive a survival guide in the form of a small book, including useful tips for travelling in Vietnam, such as how to avoid being robbed and places you may be interested in visiting. Then get ready for your first Saigonese breakfast dish.
Have your first breakfast (Stop 1).
At 8:50, visit one of the must-see historic sites (Stop 2). Here, you will hear many stories about Vietnamese history, architecture, and supernatural powers.
Continue to a local Vietnamese market (Stop 3), where you will be surrounded by a wide variety of street food. You will be shown how to buy fruit and bargain in the Vietnamese style. You will also try some special tropical fruits and Vietnamese signature dishes in the market (not Ben Thanh Market).
End the tour at one of the most popular and oldest Saigonese coffee shops (Stop 4), especially loved by Vietnamese youth. The coffee here is made by brewing with a cloth strainer and a clay pot, and this tradition has been preserved through different generations. There are other coffee shops available in case you are already familiar with sock coffee.
Head back to your hotel at 11:30 AM.
