Ho Coc Beach, Hot Springs & Tropical Rainforest (3 days 2 nights)

TIGER Tours invites you to come to Binh Chau with us, where you will meet, get to know, and overnight if you choose to, with a local family. Enjoy a scenic motorbike drive (or cycling) down the beach road; swim in the South Sea; take a mud bath at the natural hot springs and tour the virgin rainforest/jungle nature reserve.
Not enough for you? Want more? How about an ice cold beer, to go with the fresh seafood, you just cooked over the fire on the beach? There is a lot to see, do and taste on this tour.
Binh Chau is located 140Km east-northeast of Ho Chi Minh City, in the province of Ba Ria Vung Tau. It is a three to four-hour drive from HCMC depending upon vehicle type, time of departure and the unexpected.
Binh Chau is known for its natural resources. It is home to over 1,000 fishing boats, natural hot springs and virgin tropical rainforest/jungle, plus a whole lot more. There are plenty of dragon fruit, mango and pepper farms to see, as well as Phuoc Buu Nature Reserve, Ho Coc beach, Ho Tram beach, and Binh Chau Hot Springs. If you want to get out of the city and into Viet Nam, this is for you.

Day 1 (B, L)
6:30 a.m. Depart hotel with Tiger Guide; taxi to Mien Dong public bus station.
8:00 a.m. Depart Mien Dong bus station to Ba Ria Vung Tau province; includes light breakfast. After 2,5 hours drive, we arrive Mrs. Thuan’s house in Binh Chau, Ba Ria Vung Tau province. Mrs. Thuan has a big dragon fruit farm. You can chat with her and her family, culture exchange, walking around her dragon fruit farm, learn how the local people growing their trees and freshen up after your ride.

12:30 p.m. Delicious lunch with Mrs. Thuan and her family. All delicious Vietnamese dishes and fresh ingredients come from local farm

After lunch and short resting, we will depart local house to the hotel with your Tiger Guide; leisurely drive (motorbike drive with local driver or cycling by yourself; if you choose to) through Phuoc Buu Nature Reserve, to Ho Coc Beach. Enjoying nature; seeing pepper farm on cashew fruit farm on the way.

2:00 or 2:30 p.m. Arrive and check into the hotel; relax and free time, short walk to beach.
6:00 p.m. Enjoy dinner time with sea view at restaurant. Free time at night.

Day 2 (B, L, D)
9:00 a.m. Watch the sunrise and cycling through the sand dunes of Ho Coc beach by yourself (if you want to). Enjoy local breakfast in Nature; Vietnamese coffee and tea are always be served; wake up and listen to exotic birds and monkeys. You never know what you will see here.

10:00 a.m. Pick up by Tiger Guide by private car. Visit Phuoc Buu Nature Reserve; Rare Wood gallery collection, Animal Rescue Center, Virgin Rainforest/Jungle tour, Truong Son mountain, 750 botanical species and 212 different animals.
Drive to Binh Chau Mineral Hot springs; therapeutic hot spring, body massage ** and mud bath** (if you want too), cook an egg without fire, go crocodile fishing, short walking to check out part of the natural springs (total of the area is thirty-five hectare). Lunch at local restaurant, try some of delicious Vietnamese dishes.
5:30 p.m. Drive back to the town. Taking the picture of dragon fruit farm at night. Dinner at local restaurant then return to the hotel; free time.

Day 3 (B, L)
8:00 a.m. Choice of fresh Vietnamese breakfast, coffee, tea. Check out.
9:00 a.m. Pick up guest by Tiger Guide by private car, Binh Chau Port Market (fishing village); basket boat ride to small island, shopping, selecting and bartering for lunch foods.

11:00 a.m. Vietnamese Cooking Class at Mrs. Thuan’s house or Ms. Tran's house; learn how to make at least three different traditional Vietnamese foods, using the fresh ingredients you chose at the market.
12:30 p.m. Enjoy the foods of your labor.
2:00 p.m. Depart Mrs. Thuan’s; drive back to HCMC.
5:00 p.m. Arrived the hotel in HCM city. Tour finished.