TOUR SUMMARY:

Duration:                      7.5 hours

Suggested Time:        08:30-16:00

Location:                      Ban Phong Van, Luang Prabang

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Living Land Farm is a Community Enterprise Centre.  Spend the morning learning how rice is grown and take part in some of the many activities.  Continue your educational journey with a visit to discover the many minority Hill Tribes within Laos at the TAEC and learn about the 'secret war' of Laos in the UXO Visitors centre. 

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DETAILED ITINERARY:

• You will be met at the lobby of your chosen hotel where you will be transferred by private vehicle to the Living Land Farm which is a community run enterprise located just outside of Luang Prabang.  The farm maintains educational programs and professional organic farming right next to village rice paddies. Only small groups (join in tour) are able to join the interactive rice farming experience which actively benefits locals from the community, maintaining their crafts in their traditional form. You will see and learn about bamboo weaving, tool and trap making, gardening and even blacksmithing.

• This unique half-day (join in) activity invites you on an in depth and hands-on learning experience where you will participate in 14 steps of the rice cycle on the Living Lands community farm.

• Rice is the ultimate foundation of everyday life in Asia and yet it is still a mystery for many visitors. On this exceptional tour, you will be a rice farmer for a day.   Learning how to select the seeds, plant, plough with the help of the farms water buffalo and every other step until the last one... eating!  

• From Living Land Farm you will transferred by private vehicle back to Luang Prabang where you will stop for lunch (not included)

• After lunch transfer to the UXO Visitors centre to obtain information about the 'secret war' of Laos and how Laos became the most heavily bombed country during the Vietnam war 1964 - 1973.  At this visitors centre survival stories are told around the wars, bombs from the war are on display and there is also a moving documentary to watch.

• The final stop is a visit to the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre (TAEC) the museum is a dedication to the preservation on the arts and culture of Laos' diverse ethnic groups.

• The tour ends where you have the choice to either stay in the town or be transferred back to your hotel.​