Best Destinations For Foreign Tourists To Experience Farming Life In Vietnam

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Agricultural tours are an organized service based on agricultural production activities to serve visitors wishing to discover and experience the profession of a farmer. Visitors will be able to participate in activities such as visiting the fields and learning about different species of animals raised, and various types of crops, as well as planting and harvesting fruits and vegetables themselves, among others.

Community-based tourism is the main type of tourism in Sapa. Photo: Lao Cai Tourism

After getting acquainted with the farmers, tourists can put on farmer’s clothes, take farming tools, and help with daily chores. Depending on the season, they can try sowing, plowing, planting, harvesting, and milling rice. They can also do livestock work like feeding pigs, cows, and chickens.

Additionally, there are several other hands-on experience activities for visitors with handicrafts such as candy making, cloth weaving, and honey harvesting.

Depending on the season, they can try sowing, plowing, planting, harvesting, and milling rice. Photo: Lao Cai Tourism

After a day’s work, tourists change their clothes, rest, and chat with the locals to understand their way of life. Green tea, sweet potatoes, beans, and plantains are delicious and health-promoting foods that locals invite visitors to taste.

Mekong Delta

Agricultural tours in this region are highly developed. Tourists can visit orchards, taste fresh fruits, and buy fruits as souvenirs. They can also explore Con Son – Can Tho to immerse themselves in the rural atmosphere.

This is the homeland for providing all kinds of typical fruits in Vietnam's southern region such as durian, pineapple, longan, mango, star apple, rambutan, and mangosteen. Photo: Saco Travel

Tours taking travelers to fruit farms always leave an impression of the richness bestowed by nature. This is the homeland for providing all kinds of typical fruits in Vietnam's southern region such as durian, pineapple, longan, mango, star apple, rambutan, and mangosteen.

Fruit farms are abundant in the region, but the most distinctive places are in Vinh Long province (Binh Minh, Tam Binh, Binh Hoa Phuoc), a province close northeast of Can Tho; Tien Giang (Cai Be, Chau Thanh districts and My Tho city). Visitors can pick fruits, garden, wade down a ditch to catch fish, or visit traditional craft villages. They can also cycle on the tree-lined streets.

Da Lat

Da Lat is currently a very popular tourist destination. This region has long been famous under the name “city of a thousand flowers” due to its cool climate year-round, which promotes the growth of colorful flowers and various types of vegetables. As a result, agricultural tours have been strongly developed here, contributing to boosting the city’s economy.

These hanging strawberry gardens have become a tourist destination. Photo: SAKOS

Tourists can experience agricultural tourism at Xuan Huong Lake with “A Day as a Farmer” or discover the use of advanced technologies in agriculture at the Mat farm with “A Day in High-Tech Agriculture”.

In Dalat, strawberry farmers have begun growing strawberries from the ceiling. These hanging strawberry gardens have become a tourist destination. A 3,000 square meter greenhouse dripping with pink and green strawberry plants is a lovely and unique sight. Many farms offer educational tours, and some will even offer tiny baskets for picking the ripe and juicy fruits. Tourists in Dalat should not miss the opportunity to indulge in strawberries, because they do not grow well anywhere else in the country.

Sa Pa

Foreigners have shown interest in tours that feature farming activities in Sapa Town in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai. They can lead buffaloes to plow fields and dig soil.

Coming to Ta Van commune, from April to June, visitors will participate in rice cultivation directly on terraced fields with Giay ethnic people. Photo: Check in Vietnam

Coming to Ta Van commune, from April to June, visitors will participate in rice cultivation directly on terraced fields with Giay ethnic people.

After the planting season, visitors can admire the beauty of terraced fields with the bright yellow color of ripe rice, and participate in the experience of harvesting rice, threshing rice, then bathing in streams, and riding buffalo from August to October every year. After a tiring day, they will gather around the fire to enjoy special ethnic dishes.

Tour guides and local people will directly guide and save unique moments and experiences for tourists.

Hoi An

3 km from Hoi An, Tra Que village offers tourists a chance to stand in the shoes of a Vietnamese peasant, wearing a traditional conical hat, and growing vegetables.

3 km from Hoi An, Tra Que village offers tourists a chance to stand in the shoes of a Vietnamese peasant, wearing a traditional conical hat, and growing vegetables. Photo: BestPrice Travel

For the past ten years, the villagers have been welcoming foreign tourists who come to experience farming work. Tra Que village which is famous for herbs grown with clean technology, is now a popular destination for tourists.

In addition to visiting more than 20 types of vegetable characteristic of Quang Nam province, tourists will learn to cultivate vegetables, fertilize, sow seeds, and taste Hoi An dishes prepared with the vegetables they have harvested themselves, such as Cao Lau, Vietnamese crepes, and Quang noodles.

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