Farm trips launched in Vietnam

Hanoi based tour company Tailormade Vietnam Holidays is planning to launch a new tour to countryside farm land of Hai Duong as a new product.

Speaking to the media, Mr David Hung, sales manager of the company said "We are running testing trips before officially launching in early next year, the tour will provide tourists a close look at daily life of farmers in northern Vietnam, at the pace of urbarnization in Vietnam the original values are losing and we want to recover part of our traditions"

As an agriculture country, Vietnam stands as the world's second biggest exporter of rice, most of it's rice come from southern Mekong Delta and Red river delta in the north with millions of hecta under rice cultivation. Foreign toursists coming to Vietnam are surprised to see farmers working on rice fields without machine, just bare hands and a buffalo, and the buffalo has become a symbol of Vietnam rice agriculture.

As a local tour company, Tailormade Vietnam Holidays specializes in private Vietnam tours and travel information for tourists visiting Vietnam, the company provides travel services for individual travelers, couples, families and small groups throughout Vietnam.

This tour will give travellers a chance to experience a day as a farmer, travellers will go ploughing and raking on the paddy field with a buffalo, especially they will experience the feeling of riding on a buffalo on the peaceful countryside paths, leisurely bicycling in village lanes, experience the authentic and traditional Vietnamese way of life, a wonderful opportunity to interact and see first hand the living conditions and typical farm life. Tourists will listen to the farmer explaining the process of the wet rice cultivation, learning how to do and look after them, joining the local family for sharing cooking and having lunch together.

Beside activities on the rice fields, guests will also visit the famous temple of a national hero Khuc Thua Du, an old and sanctitive temple in north of Vietnam, attending the unique Hong Phong original water puppet village and enjoy a sampan boat trip around the stork island located in Chi Lang Nam commune, home to 20.000 stork and more than 7000 herons of various kinds and precious birds such as pelicans and teals residing together.