🕚 08:00 - Drive to a peaceful countryside village
🌾 Fields glow gold or green depending on the season. You’ll see conical hats in the distance, smoke rising from morning kitchens, and children riding bicycles along narrow village paths.
🥁 Your guide explains how rice shapes rural identity, family income, and even local festivals.
🕚 08:45 - Rice farming immersion (hands-on cctivities)
👩🌾 Led by village elders, you experience real farm work:
🐃 walking behind a buffalo to soften the soil
🌱 planting rice seedlings by hand
💧 learning irrigation systems
🎆 using wooden tools passed down for generations
♻️ The laughter, mud, and community spirit make the experience unforgettable.
🕚 10:45 - Bamboo Bridge Walk & Photography Moments
🚶 Walk along crooked bamboo bridges over calm river branches.
🛡️ This is a postcard-perfect moment - but also a reminder of how fragile rural life is in flood-prone regions.
🕚 11:30 - Family-hosted village lunch
🥘 Menu often includes:
🔸 free-range chicken
🔸 river fish in clay pot
🔸 local greens
🔸 pickled vegetables
🔸 fresh fruit
🧑🤝🧑 Farm families share genuine stories of storms, harvests, and how neighbors help one another.
🕚 13:00 - Flood Prevention Workshop (Community-Led)
🤝 You meet the commune leader or flood-response volunteer team.
🗣️ They explain:
🔹 how heavy rains affect rice cycles
🔹 how floodwater destroys years of work in hours
🔹 how they reinforce dykes
🔹 how early-warning systems protect children
🔹 how villages organize emergency shelters
🎎 Then you join a practical activity:
💦 sandbag placement, irrigation clearing, or reinforcing small flood barriers (depending on season).
🕚 14:45 - Slow Village Walk & Farewell Moments
❤️ A peaceful moment to absorb everything you witnessed - the simplicity, the resilience, the humanity.
🕚 16:30 - Return to hotel