15 Vietnam Chocolate Tours Worth Booking

1.A Real Mekong Tour, Floating Market, Cacao & Life’s

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 574 reviews · from $25Our pick

Start at 5:00 AM with an English-speaking guide such as Hieu, Duy, Lam, or Chris. Cruise Cai Rang market, eat breakfast by boat, visit a noodle house, fruit garden, cacao farm, and quiet village canals. Small groups keep the morning personal, with no souvenir shops.

“What can I say about this trip, and particularly our guide Hiêu, other than FANTASTIC?! We started off early, visiting the amazing floating market. It was clear immediately that Hiêu was incredibly knowledgeable, engaging and had established good relationships with the local people. Eating a breakfast pho by boat was a particular highlight, as was being invited on to another local boat for tea and fresh fruit. The day continued with visits to a cacao farm, a fruit farm and a place where rice noodles are made the traditional way. I genuinely can't praise this trip enough, and I think that was mostly down to Hiêu and how great he…”

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2.Largest Floating Market, Wild Small Canal System & Organic cocoa

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 564 reviews · from $38Top rated

Start early with breakfast and coffee at Cai Rang Floating Market, then cruise narrow Mekong canals, learn traditional rice noodle making, and visit Muoi Cuong Cocoa Farm. Guides such as Sasa, David, Lam, and Ngan add local insight. Hotel pickup may be available from selected Can Tho properties.

“Enjoyed the whole experience! Breakfast on the floating market was delicious and we loved seeing all the different boats selling their wares. We even got to climb onto one of the boats and see how they live aboard. The noodle factory was a Read more”

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3.Authentic Floating Market, Wild Canal system, Cocoa

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 398 reviews · 5h 30m · from $26

Start at 6:45 AM at An Binh Market for a small-group boat trip to Cai Rang, where you eat noodle soup and drink coffee afloat. Guides such as Sasa, Hannah, Clara, and Lam lead you through quiet canals, a family cocoa farm, a noodle workshop, and local fruit villages.

“Our guide Hannah was a delight. Very enthusiastic and informative. We had a great day”

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4.Cai Rang floating market, Cacao & hidden small canal

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 244 reviews · from $33

Start at 5:30 a.m. with a boat ride from Ninh Kieu Wharf to Cai Rang Floating Market. Eat rice noodles and coffee on the water, make noodles at a family workshop, cruise narrow canals, visit My Khanh village, and taste chocolate at Muoi Cuong Cocoa Farm. Small groups reach 15 people.

“Even if there are not many merchants left, the visit is still worth the cost. Excellent breakfast in the Boat and fun to participate in the making of noodles. A very nice and careful boat captain. A very interesting young guide with a very good French vocabulary.Auto-translated”

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5.Floating Market, Canal, Cacao Farm & Mekong’ Life

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 45 reviews · from $24

Start at 5:45 AM with guide Nick or another English or French-speaking guide, then take a small boat to Cai Rang Floating Market. Enjoy breakfast, fresh pineapple, a rice noodle workshop, water coconut canals, village paths, and an organic cacao farm in a group of up to six.

“Nick was a funny and informative tour guide, I highly recommend this tour as it gives you such a great insight into life on the Mekong delta.”

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6.Cai Rang floating market, see sunrise, CaCao orchard, small canal

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 44 reviews · from $42

Start before sunrise with a small-group boat ride from Can Tho. Guide Dai can help explain Cai Rang Floating Market, breakfast on the water, rice-noodle making, Muoi Cuong’s cacao orchard, and the peaceful canals of Phong Dien. Hotel pickup and return are included.

“Interessante Abwechslungsreiche Tour. Leider gab es an diesem Tag so gut wie keinen Sonnenaufgang- so etwas lässt sich eben nicht planen.”

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7.Floating Market, Canals, Nature Reserve & Forest

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 42 reviews · from $59

Start at 5:30 AM with hotel pickup, then see Cai Rang Floating Market at sunrise, cruise small canals, visit a family rice noodle workshop, and explore Lung Ngoc Hoang Nature Reserve. Nick may guide the English tour, with breakfast, fruit, drinks, boats, entrance fees, and transport included.

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8.Phu Quoc: Bittersweet Chocolate Factory Tour & Workshop

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 38 reviews · 2 hours · from $21

Spend two hours at Phu Quoc’s Bittersweet Chocolate Factory, where you’ll see cacao trees, learn the bean-to-bar process, make hot chocolate, mold a 10-piece box, and sample chocolates. English-speaking guides, including Teebi on some departures, lead this family-friendly workshop.

“After several value packed activities throughout Vietnam, to say this was a disappointment is an understatement. Our guide left us twice to manage late comers when it clearly states come 15 minutes early and constant reminders on my phone making sure we were on time. About five minutes going through cacao process so didn’t really see anything other than what we could read on the board outside. Once inside it was very cramped with a full room, my apron and other hats were filthy dirty. We put chocolate in the molds and sprinkled two toppings on and that was it for the chocolate making. For the remainder of the time…”

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9.Floating Market, Cacao & Canals with French Guide

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 37 reviews · from $37

Meet at 5:30 AM in central Can Tho for a French-guided Mekong morning. Cruise to Cai Rang Floating Market, eat breakfast aboard a sampan, visit a rice noodle workshop, walk through villages, and finish with cacao milk and wine at an organic farm.

“The guide was very kind and explained everything very well and answered all our questions. She speaks French very well. We were able to see the floating market, discover how noodles are made, and visit a cocoa plantation.”

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10.Full Day Experience to Farm and Chocolate

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 22 reviews · from $16Best value

Travel from Ho Chi Minh City to BINON CACAO PARK in Ba Ria Vung Tau for a guided farm-to-factory tour. Taste cacao pulp and nibs, learn bean-to-bar methods, make and decorate chocolate, enjoy lunch, then browse the cafe and souvenir shop.

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11.Explore Mekong, Floating Market, Cacao & Local Life

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 21 reviews · 6 hours - 390 minutes · from $24

Start at 5:00 AM in central Can Tho for sunrise, Cai Rang floating market, river breakfast, local markets, quiet canals, fruit gardens, and an organic cacao farm. English-speaking guides such as Lam, Jade, Duy, and Hieu bring the Mekong to life in a six-hour small-boat tour.

“Wir starteten um 5 uhr - etwas verschlafen in Richtung Floatingmarkt und unserer erster Stopp war bei einer Kaffedame am Wasser um wach zu werden und danach kam ein Highlight nach dem anderen. Essen direkt vom floatingmarkt, flussfahrt im wildwasserkanal, besuch des Marktes, Besuch einer kakaofarm usw. Während der kleinen wege zum nächsten Ziel, gab es Früchte direkt frisch vom Markt. Man konnte in die Welt der einheimischen eintauchen und unser guide hat einen super Job gemacht. Dank Tom&Jerry vergingen die 6 Stunden wie im Flug- alles wer perfekt.”

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12.Alluvia Hoi An Chocolate Making Class

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 12 reviews · from $21

At Alluvia Chocolate House in central Hoi An, you’ll learn how Vietnamese cacao becomes chocolate, temper dark chocolate, make a 30-gram bar, and shape pralines and truffles. The two-hour class hosts no more than six people and includes one free drink, water, equipment, and ingredients.

“Fun couple of hours for those who like chocolate or want to learn the basics. You walk away with plenty of chocolate and learn some cool things about Vietnams chocolate farms and trade. Small classes. Great for solo, couple and group travellers.”

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13.Bean to bar Chocolate Workshop in Ho Chi Minh City

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 10 reviews · from $32

At Ban Cacao in District 1, you will follow local cacao from fresh pod to finished bar in about two hours. Taste cacao fruit, husk beans, grind paste with a granite mortar, mold and decorate your own chocolate, then take home two bars. A drink is included for each participant.

“Very interesting exploring the various stages of chocolate making. It was good fun. And you go home with your own bars of chocolate, with personally decorated wrappers.”

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14.Group Tour: Floating Market, Rice Noodle, nursery vegatable

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 8 reviews · 5 hours · from $24

Start at 6 AM in Can Tho with an English-speaking guide such as Tom, then cruise to Cai Rang market, taste floating noodle soup and coffee, make Hu Tieu noodles, visit a vegetable nursery and dragon fruit garden, and row a small canal in a group of up to six.

“Great guide, very knowledgeable and friendly. Explained what we were seeing, and what was being made. The noodle factory was very interesting. Loved the small canals, benefit of being in a small boat. We were the only ones, just the two of us, so it was a nice intimate tour.”

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15.Ho Chi Minh City: Premium Bean-to-Bar Chocolate Workshop

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 8 reviews · from $35

At Alluvia Chocolate on Le Loi Street, an English-speaking guide leads you through Vietnamese cacao, a 30g dark chocolate bar, and six decorated truffles. This joint workshop suits solo visitors, couples, and families, with an iced chocolate included and handmade treats to take home.

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