Private Cycling Tour in Rural Hue: An Authentic Experience of Vietnamese Farming Life

Immerse yourself in the authentic farming life of Thanh Toàn village near Hue on a private cycling tour. Experience farming, fishing, crafting, and cooking a homegrown lunch.

Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Hue - Depart from the city center around 8:00. After half an hour of cycling (3km), you leave the city behind to follow countryside roads that wind along canals, ducks, and rice fields.
What's Included
  • Private transportation
  • Lunch
  • Bicycle use
  • Hands-on activities
Additional Information

Devote a day to relish in the simple pleasures of rural life at the Thanh Toàn village, not too far from Hue. Discover local endeavors such as farming, angling, handcrafting, and preparing meals right at home. This relaxed bicycle tour reveals the deeply-entrenched rice-based culture of the place, offering ample moments of warmth and camaraderie.

Primarily focused on offering cultural experiences and immersion in rustic life, you also get to join in the preparation of a wholesome lunch at a village home. Kindly advise us on any specific dietary requirements. Your guided tour features interesting anecdotes and opportunities to engage with local hosts, ensuring an enjoyable and safe exploration (Check full description in Itinerary). The order of the tour can be adjusted as per your comfort and to optimize your experience.

Highlights
• Gain in-depth knowledge about the local rice culture, its customs and festivities.
• Experience the life of a farmer by farming, boating, angling and engaging in crafting activities.
• Prepare a rice-centric homemade lunch with ingredients grown locally.
• Explore the local marketplace, village temples, and the Thanh Toan tile-roofed bridge.
• Take a relaxing bicycle ride along picturesque lanes, soaking in the rural views.

Location
Hue
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Anniekd402
Aug 19, 2024
Do it in Vietnam: cycling to rural Hue - Bike ride from busy to rural Hue. Along the way some special stops like the paper factory & colosseum where elephants once fought against tigers.... Places you can't go on your own. And to finish a delicious meal with a family.... All under the guidance of an extremely good and sympathetic Guide. Do it!
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Ed427
Aug 2, 2024
Amazing!!! - Most amazing guide and experience, everything was perfectly organised and felt really genuine. The views were amazing, all the food delicious and Trung made even the nervous cyclists feel confident. Highly recommended!!
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Erikv141
Aug 1, 2024
Lots of biking and learning about life of the loval people living around Hue. - Tuan was the most brilliant guide in vietnam. super knowledgeable and extremely friendly i know what youre thinking if youre reading this, no i am not a bot im serious. highly recommend this !!!
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121shajik
Jul 16, 2024
History, Food, and Nature in Beautiful Central Vietnam - After two weeks in Vietnam, this experience remains among the highlights. We arrived in Hue in the early morning and booked a private tour (the only kind now offered) for the next day at the last minute. Despite the late booking, Slow Travel Hue and our guide, Mr. Ánh, were kind enough to accommodate an earlier start time in the morning and an addition to our stops on the tour. Our itinerary took us from the Khai Dinh Mausoleum to the Gia Long Tomb by cycle—a lovely and easy bike ride through fields and some towns on the outskirts of Hue—and then onwards to a small farm near the banks of a tributary of the Perfume River. At both the Khai Dinh and Gia Long Tombs, Ánh guided us through the history and architecture of the monuments and fielded our many cultural and historical questions. Along the way to our farm stop, a local man partnered with Slow Travel Hue, Mr. Binh, showed us nearly a dozen herbs and foraged plants found in the forests and scrub around Hue that can be used for medical (digestive, pain relief, etc) purposes. We were also treated to a refreshing chilled herbal tea made from some of those herbs. Before eating lunch at the farm, we enjoyed paddle boarding on the river and had the opportunity to see a bomb shell recently fished up from the river by Mr. Binh. Swimming was also an option, and after the river, we were able to wash off at Mr. Binh’s home before walking a few minutes to the farm, which is managed by Mr. Binh and his relatives as a cooperative in partnership with Slow Travel Hue as a curated experience. We saw how the cooperative produces a variety of oils, soaps, teas, and balms, and enjoyed seeing and tasting plants grown around the farm, including several we had never encountered. The lunch we had at the farm was, in a trip chock-full of food tours, street food, and fine dining, one of the best we had. We enjoyed eggplant, banana blossom soup, pork, jackfruit, tofu, beef, and some delicious salts and sauces, the flavor of all of which still make me salivate. After the lunch, we returned to Hue. We were very impressed and appreciative of Slow Travel Hue’s itinerary, which gave us a glimpse of rural Vietnamese life and allowed us to take it in at a slower pace and in more peaceful corners than if we had traveled by motorbike; we enjoyed the integration of human histories with contemporary human-nature interaction. We were also deeply appreciative of Mr. Anh, our guide, who discussed dozens of topics with us, from politics to philosophy, and who went above and beyond in helping us understand the plants and herbs we encountered. He’s an old hand at guiding, and we really enjoyed spending the day cycling and learning from him. I’d immediately recommend the Slow Travel Hue experience to anyone interested in a more comprehensive understanding of Thua Thien Hue away from its tourist hotspots, and I think the price is well worth the exposure to people, history, and nature that Slow Travel Hue provides. Oh, and always see if you can bike more—the countryside around Hue is full of hidden delights, from the tombs of the Nguyen lords to the streams and fields of the Perfume River watershed.
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Cazb72
May 10, 2024
Fabulous! Highlight of our trip - This was a highlight of our holiday in Vietnam. Nhi is an amazing guide, she has so much knowledge and has a great sense of humour - the whole day was so much. I particularly enjoyed going to the local village by bike (one member of our family took a cyclo instead), having lunch with the local family. We also booked an evening food and cyclo tour with Nhi which I can thoroughly recommend. The food was amazing and it was great fun riding through the Hue on the cyclos.
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Jooph57
May 8, 2024
Bicycle tour - Beautiful bike ride through rural areas. A very good English speaking guide who knows a lot about this area. .
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Wenche
Mar 29, 2024
Unforgettable experiences - Fantastic day. Cycled around the countryside, fishing with nets from a boat, tried different techniques in rice cultivation, planted banana trees and had a lovely lunch with a local family. After a short break at home, we ended the day by rickshaw through the city with a visit to several eateries. The food experiences were absolutely superb, so we will never forget this. Mr. T has been a super guide, giving us an unforgettable day of magical experiences
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557daniellez
Mar 21, 2024
Uniquely experience off the beaten track - Excellent experience 👏 with a perfect guide and careful drivers. A unique opportunity to experience rural life off the beaten track.
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Excursion38741585183
Mar 8, 2024
Amazing company 5* Staff are so caring and want to make sure you have an amazing time whilst visiting Vietnam - The best travel company in the whole of Vietnam, our guide “T” or “the handsome one” was 1st class - his English was amazing and he was the most caring person we have ever had the pleasure of meeting
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Trish
Apr 11, 2024
Slow Travel is really worth looking into! - Nie was an amazing guide who has fabulous knowledge of Hue. She has great English. And it is very good what they specialise in. Slow travel! You travel by Cyclo or bicycle, around Hue. Firstly, we had two Cyclo riders pick us up from our hotel. Then we travelled to a vegetarian restaurant where we had an amazing meal. Then we travelled to another restaurant for pancakes. OmG, they were fabulous. Coconut Coffee was enjoyed at another really cool hip restaurant. It's was such a fun night. Next morning we were met again by Nie and the same Cyclo drivers to visit the countryside. Rice fields, paper making items for locals to burn. A local artist was observed. I really do recommend Slow travel.
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