UNIQUE VIET FARM TRIP 1 DAY WITH REAL LOCAL PEOPLE

8:00 - 8:15: Pick you up at your hotel or at Asian Discovery Travel Officce - 4 Cau Go Street, departure for Ngoc Hoa village. Enjoy en route, you will pass fields of busy workers farming their rice fields using traditional methods of cultivation.

10:15: Upon arrival Ngoc Hoa village, enjoy a cup of tea with the local family and have a short rest.

10:45: Wearing traditional farmer’s clothes to start farming work, including scoop, plough and rake with buffalo on the rice field. You can try riding a water buffalo, cultivate rice and learning more about the farming process of the water rice

Return to the local family for a cooking class and then having lunch together.

13:30: Biking around the country lanes to see some old traditional houses and enjoy the peaceful lifestyle of the local people. This is a great way to interact with the local vietnamese people and exploring the rural Vietnamese

architecture and traditional culture by the way Visting Ca Temple, an old temple which marked the beginning of the Independent Vietnam when the Tang Dynasty collapsed.

14:30: The Optional

Optional 1: Board our viet farm’s bamboo boat for a river cruise to meet and engage with local fishermen and enjoy a hands-on experience of traditional net fishing, cast net (Chai). You will also experience paddling the unique Vietnamese boat while the water ways of lichee on two side of the river. This tour provides you with a cultural window into the ways of life of both our farming and fishing communities.

Optional 2 : Take a car for visiting Stork island, enjoy a steel boat trip around the stork island located in Chi Lang Nam commune. The island is located in the middle of a broad lake with tens of thousands of storks and heros of various kinds and precious birds such as pelicans and teal residing together.

16h:00: Say goodbye to Viet farm homestay for Ha Noi departure.

17h:30 Hanoi arrival, drop you off at your hotel in Ha Noi Old Quarter. The tour finished.