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The Freewheelin’ Spirit

Travel at the rhythm of people encounters to the heart of the country and its peoples
Through the diversity of its cultures and the spontaneity of the contacts, Vietnam offers true and intense moments, which are the essence of our tours; they are adapted to the country and not the opposite. We offer an intimate and a la carte tourism, without fabrications, towards the true, pride, and alive Vietnam.
We offer a la carte tours that we elaborate on request according to your budget, aptitudes, and wishes. We are in Vietnam since 1994 and have woven a tight network of friends all along our tours. We have acquired an on-the-field solid experience, which allows us to guide you where you wish in total safety and symbiosis with the country.
You choose the destinations, the mean of transportation, the duration, etc. We bring the necessary logistics either you are a tourist, a professional, a reporter, a photographer, a scientist, a family, young, or old. We also offer the logistics for large groups, works councils, vacation clubs and centers, incentive, etc…
The characteristic of our tours: we are concentrated on meeting people. Consequently, most of our stays are with friends all along the routes. We offer to get away from a voyeuristic tourism and to create real human experiences based on sharing and understanding of the other.

Participate to an actual economic, social and cultural development

During your trip, be aware that all the lodgings offered are the fruit of an actual economic, social, and cultural project development. Which implies the families, the villages, the authorities at all levels, our company, and, of course, you. By sharing those life moments, you participate in a certain manner to the realization of those projects and their evolution.
In its concept, tourism favors the economic development of a region. We act so that all its actors equally share this development. We add to it a socio-cultural dimension indispensable to the development of a durable tourism.

Thus, we have already contributed to several projects such as the construction of an elementary school, of a bridge linking the school and the village during high floods, the creation of a fish-farming pond to avoid destructive fishing, a Nung An Ethnic Museum, a cultural center, etc.
Equitable tourism is a still vaguely defined and often misused concept. However, we guarantee at the same time quality services and a respectful consideration for the local environment, which favors a durable development process.
We have been working in the shadow for 10 years, for advertising would have maybe compromise that delicate balance, especially at the level of the Authorities, that we maintain « understanding”. It is now time to shift to a higher gear to assert our action.

“Durable” and “Development“

Two concepts at the origin of the Bourlingue Company:

  • Durable for the relationships we have with our hosts. We are on the Vietnamese trails since 1994 and have always kept excellent contacts with each of our friends. It is with pleasure that they welcome us, and, thus, it is each time moments of joy and happiness that we share.
  • Durable in the respect of the balance of the micro-societies that we visit. We give a prime importance to create no socio-economic deteriorations inside those communities.
  • Durable for the preservation of the cultural identity of each and all.
  • Development as far as the local populations’ conditions of life is concerned. Without turning everything upside down, we bring our goodwill to help in the improvement of those people’s daily life. We progress slowly, conscious of the threatening impact those intercultural exchanges favored by our activities may have on Vietnam minorities’ life.