Tour type: Private
Transfer distance: around 60km/ way from city center
Duration: 10 hours (08:00 hrs – 18:00 hrs )
Meals: Lunch
Best time to do: Year round possibly, but the best time is from October to April.
Pick up at your hotel and transfer to Ky Son.
10:00 Arrive at Moon Garden Homestay in Ky Son village. Welcome drink with local fresh green tea. Free time for discovering Moon garden Homestay and Ky Son village by yourself (local market, kinder garden)
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 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.
14:30 You can have choice of a short ride of 6 km or a long ride of 12 km round trip:
- Short ride: Take a bicycle ride to discover the Ky Son, Tam Son, Van Minh, and Cham farming communities to and stop at any home you like for a cup of tea. Visit the kindergarten (if open). Chat with local people about their daily life and farming. Or walking in the village, (if required) you can help with plowing or transplanting seedlings, harvesting rice (or cassava, corn, sweet potatoes, cucumber…) depending on the harvest season..
- Long ride: Take a bicycle ride with local guide to discover the Ky Son, Tam Son, Van Minh, and Cham farming communities, Duong Lam ancient village and visit Mia Pagoda, Mong Phu Communal House… Then bike ride back along the ritual paths of Thang thac village to discover the Ngo Quyen tomb and temple. On the way, you also pass through a local market and Mia pagoda – beautiful sights.
17:00 Return to the Moon Garden for happy hour (you will be offered some kind of local tisane). While waiting for your foot bath in warm water with ginger, salt and mugwort medicinal herbs to be prepared, you can enjoy our local drink and taste some of the local light foods such as traditional dessert, maize, sweet potato, cassava, peanuts, etc, depending on season.
18:00 Leave Ky Son for the next destination.
