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  Book with Realisticasia.com and just enjoy a fully planned trip to Vietnam and Thailand. This firm, especially Kate Tran, makes traveling to Asia easy, enjoyable and affordable. Every single... read more connection was perfect, even if our airline was late. Every excursion is well thoughtout and gives the traveler opportunities to visit real people where they live, eat and work in addition to seeing all of the popular sites.

Our trip only had one other participant, so every excursion was like having a private tour guide. We went in December 2019 and the weather was fine. One suggestion is for travelers to bring some mosquito wipes. Another tip is to bring lots of one dollar bills for tips. They seemed to be appreciated by everyone.

The first and perhaps best excursion is traveling from Hanoi to Ba Vi. Our guide, Christine, introduced us to several families, arranged a cooking class, foot baths, bike riding through small villages, brought us to where tofu being made, brought us to where we picked and crushed tea leaves readying them to be dried, brought to lunch where we ate some of the food we had helped to make. This day-long adventure would never be available on any other trip.

The other most memorable guide was Roger in Bangkok. He bought us reliably good street snacks and gave us excellent insight into Buddhism.

Every guide and every driver Realisticasia selected spoke clear english, introduced us to the cultural issues in each venue. Every hotel (we selected the upgraded hotels) was absolutely wonderful. Every buffet breakfast included Asian as well as Western foods. Speaking of food, ready yourself to taste delights unlike those you get at home. The flavors and varieties just are better than those available in the USA.

The trip includes an overnight trip through ERA Cruises on the memorable Ha Long Bay with beautiful accomodations, a cooking class, first rate food, kayaking and unforgetable views. This side trip would have been enough to justify the entire trip, but the other excursions offered so much more.

We biked through rice paddies, we rode in Sampans with locals, we rode in a Tuk Tuk, went to the floating market, rode in bamboo boats, fished with a local and still had several unprogrammed days to spend on a beach in Phuket.

Realisticasia makes ALL of the arrangements and is available to solve any problems that might develop during the trip. The price is incredibly low, the value is incredibly high and the memories are indelible. Book ANY Asia trip through Realisticasia with absolute confidence that you will get much more value than you can possibly expect.

If I could rate Realisticasia higher than 5 star I would!

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  This was a wonderful experience for us, I was assigned a travel consultant when I reached out to them, they was very responsive and easy to work. we were in... read more Hanoi for 2days with great hotel and the room very clean. After Hanoi we heading...More

  My wife and I traveled from the U.S. for our honeymoon and did an 11 day tour of Vietnam through Realistic Asia (S Viet Travel). It was set up perfectly.... read more We went in late October which was ideal weather. The entire trip was between 70(F)...More