Green Apple Hoi An Bicycle Tours

Green Apple & Hans van der Broek

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Hans van der Broek started in 2005 with organizing bicycle tours for tour operators in Hoi An Vietnam. He was the first to do so!
With now more than 18 years of travel experience in Vietnam and 30 years world wide you can expect to experience a wonderful informative tour.

Linh & Hans in front of The Lighthouse

Within 2 years after the start-up of Lighthouse Restaurant & Bicycle Tours (the first business together with his wife in Hoi An), 24 tour operators knew Hans to find and booked his interesting tours.

Now in 2012, Hans just started 'Green Apple' in Hoi An. This company consists out of 3 branches: Green Apple Activities where the bicycle tours to belong. Green Apple Hoi An - www.greenapplehoian.com - what deals with the environment in Hoi An and promotes green activities. The last branche is Green Apple World Wide, an interactive platform for alternative energy (2013).

Booking a tour with Green Apple Bicycle Tours gives you not only amazing inside information but also with the stories told during the tour(s) connections are made with actual events world wide!

A Djoser (Netherlands) family tour group!

According more than 12.000 enthusiastic customers who booked the bicycle tours from Hans they learned much more about Vietnam in a informative and passionate way!

For bookings & information: greenappleactivities@gmail.com
Telephone: 0084-(0)510-2241503
Mobile: 0084-(0)9-14136477

Bicycle tours start from: Cam Nam Island, The Lighthouse (Hai Dang) at 8 am unless otherwise is agreed.

All bicycle tours are 'join in tours', unless otherwise is agreed!

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Agriculture Tour incl.Traditional Food Tasting

6 hours (22 km)

Gac Fruit!

Experience the rural countryside life around Hoi An! You will getinformation about horticulture andricefields. A diversity of fruits and vegetables will be shown to you: peanuts,jack- and lipstickfruit, sweet potatoes, cotton, mulberry (a plant which iseaten by the silkworm), Lemon grass, Betel nuts and more. You can see how thesefruits and vegetables grow and be taking care of by the locals (depends of theseason).

A real country side experience!

You are being welcomed in the vegetablegarden Tra Que with a localherbdrink, which is made of basilicum, mint, honey and water. Otherspecialities of Tra Que which are being served are: Tom Hu (rivershrimps withmeat, mint and onion) or Banh Xeo, a pancake with herbs, vegetables and meat.Enjoy!
This tour will give you a good impression of the localvegetables and herbs which are being sold on the big market in Hoi An. TheAgriculture Tour including Traditional Food Tasting and lunch is a very goodway to experience the countryside life of Vietnam!

Tour inclusive:guiding, usage of the bicycle for the whole day, lunch and traditional foodtasting, all entrees, 1bottle off water, beverage. 26 $ pax.

Bookings: greenappleactivities@gmail.com

Telephone: 0510-2241503
Mobile: 09-14136477

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Junior & Family Tour

Bicycle & Beach extension possible! 2 hours (7 km)

Areca Trees & Lipstick fruit

More and more families wantto discover the beauty of

Vietnam

.For these group adults who travel with their children we made the wonderful'Junior & Family Tour. The tour goes over paved concrete paths where hardlyany traffic comes.

During the informative tourwe visit local craftspeople who still work like 100 years ago. On a localmarket the children will see colorful vegetables and fruits they have neverseen before.

Washing shells!

We will show you thetechnique of Chinese fishing and it is possible to make rice crackersthemselves.

It is a save and colorfultour which is very interesting for both adults and children.

Tour inclusive:guiding, usage off the bicycle for the whole day, 1 bottle off water: 12 $ p.p.

Bookings: greenappleactivities@gmail.com

Telephone: 0510-2241503

Mobile: 09-14136477

Bicycle & Beach extension:

3 hours (14 km)

For the adults and grown upchildren it is possible to continue the tour. It starts with a tour through the centre of the old quarter of Hoi An.

Long Tuyen Pagoda

On the island An Hoi we will have a coffee brake. The next stop will the extraordinary Long Tuyen Pagoda. The only pagoda in Vietnam with a Lotus Stupa on it's roof!

This tour continious with a wonderful cycling tour through the countrysideof Hoi An. We are cycling along bright green rice fields, shrimpfarms andfishponds. You will see waterbuffalo's, endless prospects and colourfulsceneries. The tour ends on Cua DaiBeach!

The beautiful 'An Bang' Beach

Tour inclusive: guiding, usage of the bicycle for the whole day,1 bottle water. 12 $ p.p.

Bookings: greenappleactivities@gmail.com

Telephone: 0510-2241503

Mobile: 09-14136477

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The most popular bicycle tour

5 hours (23 km)

Who watches who?

The 'Traditional Cam Nam& Hoi An's Scenery Tour' is the most popular bicycle tour of LighthouseBicycle Tours. It is a combination of two different tours: Traditional Cam

Nam

and Hoi An's Scenery Tour. During this various tour, the Lighthouse guide willtake you to the most beautiful places on Cam Nam Island and the rural area north of HoiAn. Our guide will give you information about the culture, politics,traditions, daily life and other interesting information of Vietnam and Cam Nam Island.

Crafts people at work!

On Cam Nam Island you can see small handicrafts,such as: steaming of rice paper, repairing of fishing nets, cooking of corn andmore. We will take you to a local shipyard on An Hoi where wooden fishing boatsare still being made in the traditional way by local craftsmen. After this wewill visit the picturesque Long Tuyen Pagoda. The only pagoda in

Vietnam

with a nine-floor 'Lotus' tower on the roof.

This tour endswith a peaceful cycling-tour through the countryside of Hoi An. We are cyclingalong the bright green rice fields, shrimp farms and fishponds. You will seewater buffalo's, endless prospects and colorful sceneries.

This tour takes 5 hours (23 km). Tour inclusive:guiding, usage of the bicycle for the whole day, all entrees, 1 bottle water, beverage. 20 $ p.p.

Bookings: greenappleactivities@gmail.com

Telephone: 0510-2241503

Mobile: 09-14136477

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Traditional Cam Nam Tour

2 hours (8 km)

During the Traditional Cam Nam Tour you will see the local life on Cam NamIsland, one of the islands in the delta of the Thu Bon River. In about 2 hours you will get a good impression ofthe local workshops and the traditional and daily life of the people on Cam Nam Island. There is much tobe seen: a shipyard, local people who are making baskets, rice paper, cookingfish, carving wood, making shoes and more!

Cam Nam Island is known for her many Areca palmtrees. On this tree the'Betel'nut grows. Elderly Vietnamese ladies are chewing on this nut to get'beautiful' red/black teeth. It is a custom for grooms to give this nut totheir future mother-in-law on their wedding day.

It is possible to make aboat trip with locals from the 'Ba Tro Bridge' through an idyllic creek in a small rowing boat.This creek is surrounded by water coconut palm trees. It's a wonderful tourwhich is easy to do for everyone!

Green Apple Bicycle Tours. It's not only what you see,
it's the story which make it all come alive!

Tour inclusive:guiding, usage of the bicycle for the whole day, 1 bottle water. 12 $ p.p.
Bookings: greenappleactivities@gmail.com

Telephone: 0510-2241503

Mobile: 09-14136477

Allactivities & products depend of the season!

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Bamboo & River Tour

4 hours (14 km/bicycle, 1 to 1½ hour byboat)

During the Bamboo River Tour we will visit Cam Nam Island, we will cyclealong 'waterways' which are dence grown with bamboo and watercoconut trees.

First you will visit the picturesque Cam Nam Island, with her richness inlocal handicrafts. Here you can find locals who are: making rice paper, cooking fish, carving wood, washingshells making shoes, cooking corn and more! There is also a colorful shipyardwhich you will visit.

After a coffee break we continue the tour along beautiful 'greenwaterways'. Here you can still see the unspoiled, traditional life fromfisherman and crafts people.

Cam Thanh, water coconut forest

The last part of the tour goes through the WaterCoconut Forrest where during the Vietnam War the VC was hidden.
At the end ofthe bicycle tour we will pick you up by boat for a scenic tour between islandsand Chinese fishing nets.

Tour inclusive: guiding, usage of the bicyclefor the whole day, all fees, 1bottle water, beverage, boat trip. 24 $ p.p.

Boat tour between 1 and 1½hour. Depends of the tide!

Bookings: greenappleactivities@gmail.com

Telephone: 0510-2241503

Mobile: 09-14136477

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The

Vietnam

Life Tour

4 hours (16 km)

During the Vietnam Life Tour you will see all aspects of the countrysidelife of the Vietnamese around Hoi An. You will visit Cam Nam Island, cyclealong 'waterways' which are dence grown with watercoconut trees and ridebetween rice fields and shrinp farms.

After a coffee break we continue the tour along beautiful 'waterways'. Hereyou can still see the unspoiled Vietnamese countyside life.The last part of thetour you ride between ricefields, shrimpfarms and small alley’s.

Tour inclusive: guiding, usage of the bicyclefor the whole day, all fees, 1bottle water, beverage. 17 $ p.p.

Bookings: greenappleactivities@gmail.com

Telephone: 0510-2241503

Mobile: 09-14136477

All activities & products depend of the season!

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Some beautiful photo's from some off the Green Apple Bicycle Tours we did in February 2012. Enjoy!