08:00 – Meet your private guide at your hotel/residence in Hanoi and begin the tour.

09:30 – Arrive at Ri village where you will start the trip at your host’s house by having a welcome drink and snack.

Meet Duoc – a Vietnam War veteran and tea-farm owner who will tell you historical stories with his own experience.

10:00 – Follow Duoc to his vast tea farm and learn how to harvest tea leaves. This is a green and peace-ful place where you will enjoy the beautiful scenery of the village. You will have a chance to help him pick tea leaves, and you will be shown how to collect the best part of the tea tree to make the most wonderful beverage of Vietnam – the traditional tea. Carry on with the production of tea at his small workshop; most of the works are manual.

11:15 – Have a ten-minute drive to visit another host family in Moc village where you will enjoy a fun cooking class with Chin. She will show you how to cook some Vietnamese dishes.

Enjoy lunch with the food you helped to cook.

13:45 – Stroll around the village and visit some local families to understand the rural lifestyle and learn how tofu, conical hat and other local products are made.

15:15 – Enjoy a cycling trip through beautiful paddy fields and interact with local farmers.

Visit Chinh’s family at the end of the ride and join them to do farm works.

16:30 – Meet Chinh, your next host, who will welcome you with fresh mint lemon juice. All ingredients are freshly picked from his own garden.

Wrap up your countryside tour by traditional feet soak in warm water with herbs, following the tradi-tional recipes of the Muong ethnic minority. This will relax you (and your feet) after cycling around the village.

17:00 – Drive back to your hotel/residence in Hanoi.