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Welcome to the (Real) Kangaroo Café ™ Website.

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Check us out on You Tube & Face Book too !

Introduction

Since 1994, the Aussie based, Griswald's Vietnamese Vacations ™ & our Kangaroo Café ™ in Ha Noi have specialised in genuine small group travel and tours for singles, couples, small groups and families in Viet Nam.

Our signature Ha Long Bay & Sa Pa tours are always popular but if you're looking for something more out of the way, then a trip to Ba Be Lake, Mai Chau &/or Cuc Phuong National Park might be good too.

Also we have 1 Day Tours from the cafe as well.

We hope you like our web site & invite you to visit us in Ha Noi & we're sure you'll agree,

We're not like everybody else !

Lots more about our Café

At the Real Kangaroo Café ™ you'll find out more about our tours & be able to enjoy our great Vietnamese, Western & Vegetarian food & get the latest, local, travel information.  Please don't forget, the Kangaroo Café ™ is only at - 18 Bao Khanh St (just around the corner from the ANZ bank in Ha Noi).

We're constantly updating our Facebook & You Tube pages & you'll see, not just the latest news about Viet Nam but an accurate account of who we are, what we do & how we do it, just us, warts & all.

Only at 18 Bao Khanh St Hanoi.

We sure are ..... not like everybody else !

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Here's some food ideas & please look further down for our tour info.

We're on the International Cow, Top 50 best burger joints in the world.

These days with all the self promotion & paid for but allegedly independent reviews on the many travel forums it's so hard to work out just who's who in the zoo.  We've had way more than our fair share of grief & nonsense with it too & are so very sick of it.  Kwikchex & the Naked Hungry Traveller have been great in bringing the cash for clicks, Trip Advisor, LP & others to heel & it really is way overdue.  It's time the shameless self promotion & paid for reviews on the various travel forums stopped & lets hope this time it does.

* NEW * Just recently the very popular, BBC - Fast Track's team, popped in whilst in Ha Noi.  Rajan Datar, Mike London & the crew were so kind & we wish to thank them again, very much. They were doing a show on Viet Nam & it's great, like so many BBC shows are. Fast Track (click) Viet Nam Direct & it's well worth a look.

Griswald's & our Kangaroo Café have enjoyed lots of great reviews in various publications around the world.  In Australia, the UK, the USA, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong etc & in publications like the Sydney Morning Herald, the New York Times, the Boston Globe & Singapore Airlines to name just a few.

Again, welcome to our web site.

Our signature Ha Long Bay & Cat Ba Island tours & our Sa Pa Hotel & Homestay tours are always very popular. We've got plenty of other shorter & longer tours available to lots & lots of other great spots too. Places like Tam Coc, Mai Chau, the Perfume Pagoda, Ha Noi Day tours, the Handi Craft Villages, Ba Be Lake, & more. 

We also handle train & airline tickets too & can offer good advice on booking reasonably priced, clean, local hotels not only here in Ha Noi but as you make your way down south too in Hue, Hoi An, Nha Trang & HCM City.

Booking a tour in Viet Nam Tips !!!

Note: If for any reason we're unable to get you away on the day of your choice we'll won't just leave you stranded. We'll get you on with another reputable tour company & we'll do our best to make sure you pay only the price we quoted. We think that's fair & the few times that this happened our customers have been very happy about it too.

OnePay are great but please be very careful about sending your Credit Card details to any/all hotel or tour mob. Viet Nam is awash with CC scams (ask your bank) & as such, for tours purchased from the cafe, we only accept cash.

You can pay in either USD or VND.

Click here to see a story about a gang in HCM City the Vietnamese Coppers busted for credit card fraud recently.

For a long time now, we haven't been able to reply or send email to Hotmail accounts, the emails just keep bouncing back to us.  We know that the Hotmail mob (as do all the others too) get millions of spam emails each day to the millions of free email accounts they have & so the filtering they use has to be very strong to try & protect them & their customers from spam, phishing, the many internet scams & even those crazy Nigerian love letters !!! 

It seems better with others like Gmail & Yahoo etc, but with most of the Free Accounts & because we send you copies of our itineraries as attachments, our emails can often end up in your spam folder. 

Often attachments can be malware or a virus we understand the security aspect of this.

With normal email software please check that your settings allow you to receive attachments so we can send you our comprehensive itineraries including all the relevant details of our tours including the FULL PRICE too.

People emailing from where they work may want to check to see if they have permission to receive personal emails & attachments during work time so you might like to add your personal email address too.  The free accounts are OK but there's really nothing better than your own account & at about $2 a week, it's not such a bad idea. 

And lastly, we know it's old fashioned but the best form of communication is still the spoken word & it's really worth a try.  For just $1 or $2 call us here in VN (our Numbers are below) if there's anything you'd like to discuss.

The Crew at the Kangaroo Café ™

Various shots of friends, customers, neighbours (?) etc !