BE A FARMER IN ONE DAY

Vietnam is famous for a long-time rice agricultural economy. Therefore, countryside traditions and customs have become a typically cultural characteristic of the nation. The image of yellow rice fields stretching endlessly at the harvest time and that of farmers with busy farm work has long been going on poetry as a beautiful symbol of Vietnamese countryside. Many poets suppose that this place is the best place on earth. Journey 1 DAY TO BE VIETNAMESE FARMERS with Vinapotential will surely give you an opportunity to join in the country's painting and have an unforgettable experience when visiting Vietnam.





1ST DAY

  • AFTERNOON
    • 16h00: Tour guide and Vinapotential coach pick you up at the meeting point and depart for a farmer family house, about 50 km from Hanoi.
    • 17h15: Warmly welcome by the homeowners, then communicate with family members. Here, you have the opportunity to admire the northern village space with green bamboo, banyan trees, water wells, village temple . You directly observe daily activities of farmers, watch homeowners feeding their pigs and chickens and other local activities.
    • 18h30: Dinner and overnight at the family home. All meals will be changed to suit a diet or a vegetarian diet for each member in the group.
  • EVENING
After dinner, tour guide take you a tour around the village, enjoy fresh air, night space and communicate with the villagers, experience custom of betel nut and areca chewing, smoking tobacco plows, pipe bowls ... You will be happy with the their hospitality and culture. And then, you come back the host's house and enjoy tea as Vietnamese style. That is drinking fresh tea and eating boiled sweet potatoes, watching the moon and stars while listening to storytelling. If you have trouble in sleeping, fresh tea may be replaced by Voi water, a tea from Voi leaves. Along with boiled sweet potatoes there are peanuts, beans, boiled corn, depending on crops.

2ND DAY

  • 05h00: The homeowners wake up and prepare everything for a working day. If on the occasion of harvest season, everyone will be very busy from yhe dawn to nightfall.
You wake up early and enjoy the fresh air of the countryside.
  • 06h00: Have breakfast as the homeowner's normal one.
  • 07h00: After wearing protective clothes, you ride a bike along with the homeowners and tour guide to go to the field. At the working place, you get working tools depending on the kind of work like sickle, hoe or load ... Then follow the farmers' detailed instructions on how to work according to laboring safety rules.
    You will be explained about the production process, planting techniques as    well as weather observation tips.
    Break time is available.
    Depending on the crops, you can participate in various programs:
Program 1: Harvesting rice. You use a sickle, cut rice tree in rows, tie into bundles, then use double-sized sickle to cut sheaves of rice plants and take the seed parts and move them up on the truck.
Program 2: Planting rice. Separate from 8 to 10 young seedlings, plant according a east - west straight line in order to take advantage of the sun light, each seedlings bunch in line is not obscure by each other. Each row is 25-30 cm wide.
Program 3: Harvesting corn. Pick corn in a clockwise direction, plucking silks and drop into baskets or hand carrying. Move them up on the truck.
  • 11h00: Finish morning work. Back to the homeowner's house and have lunch. Enjoy countryside dishes.
  • 14h00: Continue afternoon work on the field with the homeowner.
  • 16h30: All work is finished. Say goodbye and thanks to the homeowner and his family and back to Hanoi.
  • 17h30: Hanoi arrival. Say goodbye and see you again on the next trip.
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  • Price: 85 USD
  • Time: 2 days 1 night
  • Departures: Ha Noi
  • The schedule: Vietnam countryside
  • Date of start: Daily
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