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Welcome to Biking Around Vietnam and our unmissable Hanoi Bicycle tour, the "Real Hanoi Bicycle Experience"! This experience is the brainchild of Sidney and Thao the owners & founders of Friends Travel Vietnam; a Vietnamese & Dutch couple who loves Vietnam, its travel industry, and most of all, creating amazing stories through setting up unforgettable bicycle tour experiences.

We guarantee that this website will be your one stop shop when it comes to the best guided bicycle tours in Hanoi!

If you want to explore the ancient city of Hanoi in a unique and authentic way you need look no further. From the chaotic to the peaceful. From the modern and sleek to the traditional and laid back. From the bustling streets to the hidden banana and guava plantations, we’ll show you a side of Hanoi that few people ever get to experience!!!

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Why Bike With Us?

It’s simple: we know our stuff, we don’t mince our words, and we are obsessively passionate when it comes to quality and going the extra mile. This enables us to create unforgettable local experiences here in Hanoi for our travelers! That’s why Friends Travel Vietnam has spent an astounding combined 1750 hours perfecting our Real Hanoi Bicycle Experience with our team in Hanoi - Vietnam.

This ensures that the Real Hanoi Bicycle Experience can draw on a wealth of local knowledge and experience when delivering our cycling tours for out travelers.

We’ll always go above and beyond the travel industry standards to guarantee that our clients have an unforgettable experience .

Our international tour operating license serves as proof that we know how to do our job, together with our reviews on Facebook, Google Reviews, & TripAdvisor serves as proof that we are great at it!

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Twice a day, we cycle away!

"Departing daily from 8:30AM & 13:30PM at our office."

We believe in creating experiences that will stay with you for a lifetime. And with the Real Hanoi Bicycle Experience that’s exactly what you’ll get. If you are looking for a standard bike ride, which explores Hanoi’s standard sights and experience her standard activities, we recommend that you seek out one of the many companies imitating us.

The Real Hanoi Bicycle Experience is anything but standard. We venture off the well trodden, or in this case cycled, path to show you the Hanoi that even local residents seldom get to see. Join us today and take in all the wonderfully strange sounds, sights, and smells that makes Hanoi an unforgettable experience.

We’d love to tell you more but you’ll just have to join us and discover Hanoi’s magic and the charm for yourself!

Are you visiting Hanoi in a group?

Great! At The Real Hanoi Bicycle Experience we specialise in creating exceptional memories for travelers travelling in a larger group. We accommodate groups of up to 12 people without breaking a sweat!

There may be strength in numbers, but there’s also a whole lot of logistics that goes with that strength. We are proud to say that at the Real Hanoi Bicycle Experience we’ve figured out the logistics part and are ready to provide you an amazing experience! More people equals more fun!

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Don't Take Our Word For It…

It’s quite easy to go around saying that you are the best bicycle tour in Vietnam . Anyone can do that, and unfortunately they do. But at The Real Hanoi Bicycle Experience we do not only make the claim, we back it up with our guests’ reviews!

If you take some time and scroll through our reviews on Facebook, Google Reviews, & TripAdvisor you’ll notice one common thread: Our guests really enjoy our services, and frankly, if you take a look at the extra services we offer, no one can blame them!

Family & Kids Friendly Bicycle tour

Our Real Hanoi Bicycle Experience is for everyone, young & old! Where youngest was 6 years and the eldest was 84 years. Especially designed around families & children, it’s a kid-friendly safe bicycle tour. Learning and making new discoveries while having fun is our main goal.

Our guides have many years of experience and received an amazing training. Our expertise is key to transform our family tours into a unique and fun experience.

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Tay Ho - Hanoi’s (other) lake of myths and legends

By Sidney van Meenen • March 26, 2020

So much about your experience in Hanoi depends on where you decide to explore the city from. Don’t get us wrong, the Old Quarter is definitely a must-see when visiting this beautiful city, but it’s rather difficult to escape the chaotic beauty when you’ve booked a 4-night stay in said same chaotic beauty. That’s why more and more travellers are forsaking Hoan Kiem lake for it’s bigger, but lesser-known brother – Tay Ho. And at Friends Travel Vietnam we are always looking to enrich people’s journey through Vietnam. That’s why we’ve gathered some of Tay Ho’s legends and myths for your reading pleasure – you know, just to give you something to think about while you’re watching a majestic Tay Ho sunset!

What’s the point of a street food tour, anyway?

By Jakus Eloff • March 26, 2020

A while back I was sat at one of my favourite Bia Hoi (If you want to know more about the glorious institution that is a Bia Hoi, check out our “What is a Bia Hoi, exactly?” blog post) having a few beers with some of my friends. This weekly meeting has become somewhat of an unintended tradition, due to the fact that this particular Bia Hoi is on the way to each of our respective homes. So it almost always happens that one of us stops for some quick refreshment on their way home after a long day’s work. The next punter on his/her way home would then see one of our merry little crew already having a beer and join them. This process will repeat itself until we are a party about ten or fifteen souls strong. What happens next is inevitable, given the constant flow of beers and good company – someone will order some food. This will create a chain reaction during which we all suddenly realize that we are a bit peckish, with our bellies now sufficiently lined by the light and refreshing Vietnamese lagers.

A Pedestrian's hands on guide to Hanoi's Traffic

By Sidney van Meenen • March 26, 2020

There are certain things that stand out when one visits a foreign country. For brevity’s sake, let’s call them destination idiosyncrasies. These idiosyncrasies may contribute either positively or negatively on one’s travels in a foreign country. To avoid leaving a destination with a load of negative emotions a traveller needs to accept one cardinal rule: “Foreign countries are full of foreigners…” That is to say that people tend to do things differently in different cultures. Differently does not mean right or wrong, it just means different. This seems obvious, but when one scours the TripAdvisor and google reviews of certain travellers, the only thing that is really obvious is that this feature of travelling to strange and different lands needs to be explained at length to some people.

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