Countryside Tour Package with Homestay

HANOI - KY SON VILLAGE - DUONG LAM VILLAGE - HANOI

Duration: (02 Days/01 Night)
From: Vietnam tour

DAY 1: HANOI / KYSON (B,L,D)
- 10:00: Arrive at Moon Garden Homestay at Ky Son village. Welcome drink with local fresh
green tea. Free time for discoving Moon garden Homestay and Ky Son village by yourself (local market, kinder garden)
- 11:00: Cooking class (Menu: Fresh and fried spring rolls, traditional dessert and food decor).
- 12:30: Lunch. After lunch, enjoy having your fingers dipped in a fragrant lime bowl. Then
further discussion with owner over local snacks
- 13:30: Interact with locals to share our culture and learn about traditional customs especially
traditional marriages. If you want to learn Vietnamese, you can always ask the locals to teach
you.
- 15:00: Take a bicycle ride to discover the Ky Son, Tam Son and Van Minh farming
communities and stop at any home you like for a cup of tea. Chat with local people about their daily life and farming. You can help with plowing or making rice beds, transplanting seedlings, harvesting rice (or cassava, corn, sweet potatoes...) depending on the harvest season, collecting tea and all medicinal herbs needed for your steam bath late this afternoon and foot “spa” late evening.
- 17:30: Return to the Homestay for happy hour (you will be offered some kind of local tisane) .
While waiting bathroom, you can drink and enjoy an investigation of the local products such as maize, sweet potato, cassava, peanuts, though seasonal... offered by the owner.
- 18:30: Traditional, refreshing steam bath with fragrant herbs (Lemon grass, pomelo leaves,
holy basil leaves).
- 19:30: Dinner. .
- 20:30: Foot bath of warm water with ginger, salt and mugwort medicinal herbs before bedtime.

DAY 2: KY SON / DUONG LAM / NEXT DESTINATION (B,L)
- 7:00: Coffee and joining Yijinjing traditional exercises, praying Buddha, observe the morning
worship and participate in burning false money and gold for the deceased.
- 7:45: Breakfast
- 8:30: Bike ride through ritual paths with local guide to discover the Cam Cao village, Mia
pagoda, Duong Lam ancient village and Ngo Quyen tomb.
- 11:00: Return to the house and relax
- 12:30: Lunch
- 13:30: Free time: You can make yourself at home relaxing on the hammock in our garden,
taking pictures with Vietnamese traditional cloths, fishing and chatting with people or further
discovery of the Ky Son village and around until your departure time for the next destination.