You can work with Duong Lam local farmers and participate in their daily routines surrounded by breathtaking scenery in a peaceful way.
Let’s come to Duong Lam village to harvest on the immense rice field and cultivate wet rice. Through this tour, local people will show you the way to cultivate and harvest rice and help you experience the hardships of Vietnamese farmers.
Do you love animals? Let’s become a cattleman in Duong Lam ancient village to take buffalo or cow to the paddy field. You will not have to do it alone. Let do this with a 78 year-old person who has been a cattleman for more than 50 years. He will show you the way to make buffalo or cow obey and eat better and share his experience about farming in Duong Lam. In Vietnam, buffalo and cow are considered as faithful friends; therefore, they usually play with buffalo and cow like this guy. Why not come and try this must-to-do experience like him? It’s no doubt that you will be blown away by the feeling when you sit on the back of a buffalo:
You can also come to a organic vegetable field and learn to plant, grow, water and harvest vegetables popular in Duong Lam ancient village with local farmers: corn, cucumber, tomato, onion, potato, convolvulus, pumpkin bud, chayote, cabbage, lettuce, herb, dill, bean-sprout, amaranth, bitter lemon, French bean, bamboo shoot, taro, winter melon, broccoli, cauliflower, yam, kohlrabi, zucchini, bok choi, ceylon spinach etc.
Just need to contact us and share which vegetables are your favorite ones, then you can harvest your favorite ones by yourself and enjoy meal with them.
Besides, you can sit on a boat to catch fish with a net or sit by a pond to fish and learn local traditional fishing techniques using round and cast nets. After that, you can bake fish and enjoy it together!
If you want feed pigs, chickens, and ducks and collect their eggs, let’s choose to become a Duong Lam villager! We have a farm with hundreds of them.
Tourists collect eggs in a farm in Duong Lam ancient village
Come to Duong Lam ancient village, get your hands dirty and have fun!
If you are in Hanoi for a few days I highly recommend visiting this place, a return cab including waiting at the place for four hours cost around $30. You can rent a bike for the day for $1. We took a tour with an NGO- Duong Lam Ecotourism where you paid what you want, much better than the expensive tours at the agencies. It takes about an hour to get to and is beautiful when you do, cycling among the rice paddies with the view of the village and the spire of the old church in the distance. Although it is a “tourist” village it’s not overrun with tourists and thus feels relatively authentic.