Private Cycling Tour in Rural Hue with Farming Experience

Immerse yourself on a joyful day as a local farmer in Thanh Toàn village near Hue. You experience farming, fishing, crafting, and preparing a home lunch. This easy-going cycling unfolds the deep-rooted rice culture and offers you many convivial moments. Cultural discoveries and rural immersion are the main focus. You will participate in cooking a fresh and healthy lunch at a local home. Please advise a special diet if any. You travel with a storytelling guide and interact with villager hosts on many safe and fun activities (See full description in Itinerary). Tour order is indicative and can be fine tuned to ensure your best comfort and authentic enjoyment. Highlights • Learn deeply about rice culture, its rituals and celebrations. • Do farming, boating, fishing, and crafting as a farmer. • Cook rice-themed lunch with home grown ingredients. • Browse market, village temples, Thanh Toan tile roofed bridge. • Cycle along quaint lanes to indulge with rural scenes.

1. 1

   Hue

   30 min

   Depart from the city center around 8:00. After half an hour of cycling (3km), you leave the city behind to follow countryside roads that wind along canals, ducks, and rice fields.

2. 2

   Thanh Toan Museum

   1 hour

   Thanks to the guide's storytelling, you appreciate the deep-rooted wet rice culture and its central role in Vietnamese life. Admire charming village temples, colorful mosaic patterns. By chance, you may be absorbed with ancestral ritual practices at a seasonal celebration. (Since you will spend around one hour or more to explore real life rural activities and village temples, you will just pass outside the Thanh Toan Museum)

3. 3

   Thanh Toan Bridge

   4 hours

   Call by a farmer's house and lend a helping hand with farming jobs. Activities are seasonal, in real life settings and very entertaining. Enjoy a farmer tea-break with a local healthy snack. Continue your immersion with fishing experience on a laid-back pushing boat ride along Như Ý river. Occasionally the fishermen will challenge you with sampan racing or tending the duck flock. Grab some trick-of-the-trade to catch some fish for your lunch or eventually fun trade at the village market. “He that would have the fruit must climb the tree” is the principle for your homely lunch with a local family. Learn from the host’s rice-theme recipe and share your skills to make the experience meaningful for all parts. The whole experiences of farming, fishing & boating, cooking and enjoying healthy lunch will last around 4 hours or more, in the proximity of Thanh Toan bridge. Time allocated to each activity is flexibly adapted to traveller's preference.

4. 4

   Thanh Toan Bridge

   30 min

   After lunch, hang on with locals around the restful Thanh Toàn ancient tile-roofed bridge. Situated adjacent to the village market and mighty rice fields, this beautiful architecture was built by the virtuous Madame Trần Thị Đạo in the 18th century.

5. 5

   Truong Tien Bridge

   1.5 hours

   By mid-afternoon, enjoy interactive experience with local artisans to make a palm conical hat or wrap and taste sticky rice cakes (30-45 minutes). Return to the city on bamboo shaded green roads. It is about 8 km to Truong Tien Bridge, and take you about 1.5hours at leisure pace with some break.

• Service animals allowed
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.