OPTION 4 (3 nights) | |
(From 10:00am on the 1st day to 10:00 on the 4th day (3B, 3L, 3D) with biking around Ky Son and Duong Lam village + fishing + 1 day as farmer or charity activities. |
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DAY 1: HANOI/ KY SON (Lunch, Dinner) (Departure from Hanoi at 8 am) |
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10:00 |
Arrive at Moon Garden Home stay in Ky Son village. Welcome drink with local fresh green tea. Free time for discovering Moon garden Home stay and Ky Son village by yourself (local market, kindergarten) |
11:00 |
Cooking class |
12:30 | Lunch |
13:30 |
Hand Spa- Enjoy having your fingers dipped in a fragrant lime bowl and the traditional herbal hand massage |
15:00 |
Walking around Ky Son village for further discovery of countryside, interacting with the locals to learn about their daily life and farming. Visit the villager's bee house. Or (if required) you can help with plowing or making rice beds, transplanting seedlings, harvesting rice (or cassava, corn, sweet potatoes, cucumber...) depending on the harvest season. You can visit the kindergarten (Closed on Sat , Sun, and Holidays) and go to the village market, then back to Moon Garden. |
17:30 |
Return to the Moon Garden for happy hour. While waiting for your steam bath to be prepared, you can enjoy our local drink and taste some of the local products such as maize, sweet potato, cassava, peanuts… (depending on season) or some traditional desserts. |
18:00 |
Traditional, refreshing steam bath with fragrant herbs (Lemon grass, pomelo leaves, holy basil leaves). |
19:15 |
Observe the evening Buddha worship. |
19:30 |
Dinner; |
DAY 2: KY SON / DUONG LAM / KY SON (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner) |
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7:00 |
Joining Yijinjing traditional exercises. |
7:30 | Breakfast |
9:00 |
Take a bicycle ride with local guide to discover the Ky Son, Tam Son, Van Minh, and Cham farming communities, Duong Lam ancient village to visit Mia Pagoda and Mong Phu Communal House... |
11:30 |
Lunch at Duong Lam Ancient Village. |
13:00 |
Then bike ride back along the ritual paths of Thang thac village to discover the Ngo Quyen tomb, Phung Hung temple. |
15:30 |
Arrive at Moon Garden, go fishing or relaxing at your choice. |
19:30 |
Dinner |
20:30 |
Foot bath in warm water with ginger, salt and mugwort medicinal herbs before bedtime. |
DAY 3: KY SON - Farmer’s daily life or charity activities (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner) |
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7:30 |
Breakfast. |
8:30 |
Go to Thuy Thuy An village to visit a Center of Rehabilitation for Handicapped Children to participate to the charity activities for helping the handicapped children./ Or participate to the daily works at one villager's home: accompanying to village's market, cooking at home…; |
12:00 |
Back to Moon Garden for lunch or lunch with the villager's family (at your choice) |
PM |
Go fishing / Or joining with the Moon Garden family for making rice doughnut or making cloth flowers/ Or you can make yourself at home relaxing on the hammock in our garden, taking pictures with Vietnamese traditional clothes. |
19:30 |
Dinner |
DAY 4: KY SON / NEXT DESTINATION (Breakfast) |
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7:30 |
Breakfast |
Free until your departure to next destination. | |