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

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 Mrs. Thuan house to the local homestay with your Tiger Guide; leisurely drive (if you didnt have chance to try popular Saigon motorbike tour then let's try this short 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 green pepper farm on cashew fruit farm on the way.

After arrived the hoemstay; relax and free time (please bring a book for a relaxing time on the hammock)
6:00 p.m. Enjoy dinner time with local family. Free time at night.

Day 2 (B, L, D)

You can choose both by bicycle or by motorbike to go to breakfast place (3 to 4 km). Enjoy Pho (noodle soup) and Vietnamese coffee that popular in the local village, short walk through a local market and cycling through the sand dunes of Ho Coc beach by yourself (if you want to). Enjoying the ride and listen to exotic birds and monkeys. You never know what you will see here.

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. Back to the homestay for lunch.
In the late afternoon, motorbike 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). 
In the evening 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)
In the morning, choice of fresh Vietnamese breakfast (noodle, bread etc.), coffee, tea.
Motorbike rice to visit Binh Chau Port Market (fishing village); basket boat ride to small island (depend on the weather and tide), shopping, selecting and bartering for lunch foods.

10:00 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. The bus will pick you up at homestay, directly drive back to HCMC (or to Mui Ne if you want us to arrange bus ticket for you for your next travel destination).
5:00 p.m. Arrived the hotel in HCM city. Tour finished.