My Son UNESCO Site & Fresh Rice Noodle Making Class from Hoi An

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Duration6h

GroupUp to 15

LanguagesEN

PickupAt your hotel

Make phở noodles by hand, then taste what you built

A full-morning class combining a guided walk through My Son Sanctuary—a UNESCO World Heritage Site of ancient Cham brick temples—with a hands-on lesson in making fresh rice noodles at a family home, plus a traditional Cham dance performance and a 30-minute boat trip on the Thu Bon River. Pickup from Hoi An or Da Nang hotels is included; the tour runs 6 hours and ends with lunch featuring your handmade phở.

Step-by-step itinerary

My Son tour and noodle making

Hotel pickup at 7:30 AM
Walk around My Son Sanctuary
Watch traditional Cham dance
Lunch at local family home
Learn to make fresh rice noodles
Taste handmade phở noodles
Boat trip on Thu Bon River
Return to hotel by 1:30 PM

The Experience

Your guide picks you up at 7:30 AM and drives you to My Son Sanctuary, where you'll spend two hours walking among brick towers and temples built between the 4th and 13th centuries. The morning light is clearest then, and the site has fewer visitors. Your English-speaking guide explains the history and symbolism of each structure—what the Champa Kingdom built here and why—while you move through the ruins. Around 9:30 AM, you watch a traditional Cham dance performance: local dancers in period costumes, accompanied by traditional instruments, showing you how this culture expressed itself centuries ago.

At 11 AM you leave the ruins and head to a local family home, where the real work begins. You'll learn to make fresh rice noodles from scratch—the silky strands that give phở its texture. Your instructor walks you through each step: how rice flour and water become dough, how that dough becomes sheets, how those sheets become the noodles you'll eat. You make them with your own hands, and afterward you taste your phở, built from ingredients you just prepared. This is not a demonstration; you're doing the work.

On the way back to your hotel, you have 30 minutes on a traditional wooden boat on the Thu Bon River—time to sit, breathe, and watch the water before you're dropped off around 1:30 PM. The whole day is arranged: pickup, transport, the guide, entrance to My Son, lunch, and the noodle lesson. You don't book a separate boat or negotiate with drivers at the dock.

What’s included

Hotel pickup and drop-off in Hoi An (or Da Nang with the Da Nang option).
air-conditioned vehicle and English-speaking guide.
entrance ticket to My Son Sanctuary.
hands-on rice noodle-making class at a family home.
lunch featuring your handmade phở.
traditional Cham dance performance.
30-minute boat trip on the Thu Bon River.

Good to know

Easy physical levelPublic transport nearbyNot for heart conditionsInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Simply Vietnam Travel

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to move beyond watching—making the noodles yourself, tasting them fresh, and understanding how phở actually comes together is what separates this from a standard temple tour. The early start and fixed schedule mean you see My Son before the crowds arrive, and everything—transport, the guide, the meal, the boat—is arranged so the morning holds together without you organizing pieces of it.