How to be a good Vietnam Easy Rider

Today in many Vietnam tourist cities, it’s easy to meet Easy Riders on the streets. They ride motorbikes around the city and stop beside the foreigners on the street. After greeting and introducing, they and the tourists go to a coffee shop, discussing about a trip and some travel information. Then a tour has been booked and the tourists begin their trip with these guys.

Many people know that these men are both Riders and tour guide, who provide the tourists, especially backpacker, a free, cheap and convenient tour to discover one or some cities in Vietnam. However, we don’t know how Easy Riders can organize a high-quality tour and what qualification they need in order to create a satisfied tour for customers.

It’s not simple and easy to be an Easy Rider due to its duties and responsibilities. Being an Easy Rider means being a motorbike rider, a tour guide, a fellow, and sometimes a medical officer.  He rides motorbike taking the tourists to many different areas, so he needs to take care of them, to ensure their safety and health. He either gives them travel information; provides them many things of Vietnamese culture and custom. He has to know good places to play, to eat or to stay in order to give recommendation for his customers, or know how to make them satisfied with the whole journey. Above all, nevertheless, the Easy Rider must learn how to make his guests trust him and choose his tour instead of another one.  

Almost Easy Riders are middle-aged men who have good health, physical strength and knowledge of local travel. They may not be professional in tourism or graduate from university majoring tour guiding, yet they are good at communication and languages skills as well as practical experiences. These skills and experiences have been acquired and mastered during a process of learning and practicing in real situation. Each Easy Rider as a newer often follows the seniors to study and hoard experiences. Real life practice is always the best environment for improving communication and languages skill. Moreover, because of being advanced in years, they get more knowledge of a place, a city or culture, and even skill of riding motorcycle. Besides, they usually do exercises to have good health and physical strength, which helps them making sure safeness for guests and eliminating all risks if possible.   

Easy Riders are very friendly and humorous guys. During a long journey seating on motorbike, it must be boring if there is no connection between the rider and the guest. It’s not only talking about culture, custom or people, but also telling laughing stories to make the trip become more excited and joyful. Many backpackers after enjoying an Easy Riders usually give the Easy Riders compliment like “They are kind and friendly”, “We have no worries when going with them, they’re really helpful and enthusiastic with their job”, etc.

To sum up, parallel with the fast development of tourism, Vietnam Easy Riders partly make the tourism industry broaden and provide tourists more options. Easy Riders Tour, in spite of the reasonable price, gives tourists a high-quality tour and is ideal for their budget.