(From 10:00am on the 1st day to 10:00 on the 5th day (4B, 4L, 4D) with biking around Ky Son and Duong Lam village + fishing + 1 day as farmer or charity activities + 1 day to Ba Vi Mountain.

DAY 1: HANOI/ KY SON (Lunch, Dinner) (Departure from Hanoi at 8 am)

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)

Cooking class 

Lunch

Hand Spa- Enjoy having your fingers dipped in a fragrant lime bowl and the traditional herbal hand massage
Then, free time for relaxing or further conversation with the host family about local snacks, sharing cultures, and learning about traditional customs. If you want to learn Vietnamese, one of the family members can teach you.  

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.

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.

Traditional, refreshing steam bath with fragrant herbs (Lemon grass, pomelo leaves, holy basil leaves).

Observe the evening Buddha worship.

Dinner; 

DAY 2: KY SON / DUONG LAM / KY SON (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)

Joining Yijinjing traditional exercises.

Breakfast

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... 

Lunch at Duong Lam Ancient Village.

Then bike ride back along the ritual paths of Thang thac village to discover the Ngo Quyen tomb, Phung Hung temple.

Arrive at Moon Garden, go fishing or relaxing at your choice.

Dinner

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)

Breakfast.

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…; 

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.

Dinner

DAY 4: KY SON / BA VI / KY SON  (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)

Breakfast.

Bike ride to Ba Vi Mountain. Visit the Ba Vi National Park which is rich of diverse tropical and subtropical species of flora and fauna. Upon arrival, trekking to discover the wild life of animals there… Ride to the summit of King Peak where the temple of HoChiMinh President is located. This peak is the highest in the three of Ba Vi mountain Range.

Then taking rest with picnic lunch.

After lunch, descending King Peak to climb up another peak - the summit of Tan Vien Mountain - to visit Tan Vien Temple which is dedicated to the God of the Jungle. There are many beautiful jungle-plants, uncommon insects and birds here, so do not forget to photo-hunt while trekking. From this summit you can enjoy the great view of the Red River Delta.

Ride back to Moon Garden

Arrive at Moon Garden. Relaxing

Dinner.

DAY 5: KY SON / NEXT DESTINATION (Breakfast)

Breakfast