We’re Vietnam Vespa Adventures, a custom scooter tour company based in Ho Chi Minh City (modern-day Saigon) that specializes in multi-day trips up the coast of Vietnam, along the coastline, to towns like Mui Ke Ga, Mui Ne, and Nha Trang. Our tours grew out of Vespa road adventures we used to embark on ourselves from Saigon. As longtime expat residents of Vietnam, we’ve long known that it’s impossible to truly experience this country – its culture, its geography, its smells and tastes, and most of all its people – from behind the dirty windows of a crowded bus, stopping only where package tours drop off gawking ‘travelers’ every hour of every day of the year. So we make our trips spontaneous events, believing fully that the journey is much more important than the destination. We bring that sense of spontaneity and discovery to all our tours with Vietnam Vespa Adventures – the idea of letting these trips happen to us, instead of forcing them to fit a set schedule and itinerary.

Almost every part of our tours — from the departure date to meals and activities in the towns we stay in — are open to our guests’ whims and suggestions, our guide’s recommendations, and to those serendipitous events and happenings that can’t possibly be planned. We like to say that at Vietnam Vespa Adventures we have set destinations, but not set tours. Hopefully, our blog provides an ongoing peek into what a trip with us is like.