6-Day Rice Planting Experience
(June - July)
Come experience the life of a rice farmer in a traditional rice farm amidst the beautiful hills of Northern Thailand. You'll enjoy peace and tranquility, fresh air, wonderful sounds of nature, and tasty but healthful farm cooking.
The wet months of June/July is the joyous season of sowing, marking the start of a new rice planting cycle. During your stay with us, Kitt and Father Gun will guide you through the process of rice planting, experientially.
Irrigation
Ploughing
Transplanting
Sowing
Cow herding
River bath |
Itinerary:
Day 1: |
We'll meet you at the Chiang Rai International Airport and bring you to Tigerland Rice Farm. When you are comfortably settled in at our Farmer's Lodge, we'll give you an orientation tour of the farm. You'll enjoy a good dinner and have an early rest. |
Day 2: |
After a big breakfast, you'll prepare your paddy field for sowing. It means irrigating the field adequately with stream water, trimming the sides of the plot and levelling the soil. It'll be a healthy dose of labour under the sun so let's relax with a refreshing dip at the river. For dinner, you'll enjoy a bamboo rice feast. |
Day 3: |
This is a fun day of sowing when you'll transplant the rice seedlings from the nursery to the paddy field you painstakingly prepared the day before. You'll appreciate the back-bending effort of the rice farmers. We'll enjoy a evening out in Chiang Rai town and you may shop till you drop at the Night Bazaar. |
Day 4: |
You'll complete the transplanting and sowing of seedlings at your rice paddy by early afternoon, and stand back to proudly appreciate your effort. After lunch, we'll enjoy a stroll to a nearby Lahu Village and to experience the natural beauty and richness of the farm country - rivers, plants, fruits, vegetables and wild life. After dinner, we'll explore the paddy and see what creatures come alive there in the night. With luck, you'll see the magic of the fire-flies. |
Day 5: |
Your visit to Chiang Rai would be incomplete without an appreciation of the rich diversity of the Hill Tribes in this region. So we'll bring you on a tribal tour to visit the Yao, Akha and Padong hill tribes to learn about their lifestyle and culture. In the evening, you'll learn Bamboo Weaving and you're welcome to weave as many items as you delight to bring home. |
Day 6: |
This is the day to bid farewell. We'll send you to the Chiang Rai International Airport. If you wish to extend your stay to explore other parts of Thailand, we would be pleased to help you with travel arrangement. |
Full Board (Lodging + Meals) and Transportation:
- Lodging and home-cooked farm meals (breakfast/lunch/dinner) inclusive.
- Transportation from/to Chiang Rai International Airport inclusive.
Suitable for:
- Families interested in going on nature-bound experiential vacations.
- School groups (teachers and students) who are keen to learn first-hand agricultural living and rice planting process. Group size not more than 16.
- City folks keen on taking a break from city stress and returning to the embrace of Mother Nature for recharging and renewal.
Capacity:
- To ensure the highest level of personal touch, proper guidance and quality of learning in the rice planting experience, we limit to max 4 families or max group size of 16 persons (adults/kids) for any 6-day stay period.
Fees:
- S$480 (Singapore Dollars) per person (inclusive of program + full board + transport to/from Chiang Rai International Airport).
- Half price for child below 10 years old and free for child below 5 years old.
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6-Day Rice Harvesting Experience (October - November)
The dry, cool months of October/November is the happy season of reaping, marking the end of yet another year of gainful harvest. If you've planted the rice in June/July, we shall try to allocate the same plot for you to harvest your own rice. Holding a handful of golden rice grains, recollecting how you'd planted the rice seedlings into the paddy months earlier is truly a most delightful moment. You just can't help but treasure every grain of rice thereafter...
Reaping
Ripeness
River wading
Thrashing
Pounding
Winnowing |
Itinerary:
Day 1: |
We'll meet you at the Chiang Rai International Airport and bring you to Tigerland Rice Farm. When you are comfortably settled in at our Farmer's Lodge, we'll give you an orientation tour of the farm. You'll enjoy a good dinner and have an early rest. |
Day 2: |
You'll hit the welcoming rice paddy ripe for harvest. You'll learn how to reap with a sickle (curve knife) and stack up the rice stalks for drying under the sun. In the afternoon, you'll enjoy a wade upstream in the forest river which is the source of irrigation water. We'll have a bamboo rice dinner over campfire in the evening. |
Day 3: |
You'll continue to reaping in the morning. After lunch, you learn about bundling and thrashing. It's a particularly satisfying day as you'll see your first pile of golden rice grain by the end of your thrashing effort. We'll enjoy a evening out in Chiang Rai town and you may shop till you drop at the Night Bazaar. |
Day 4: |
You'll experience the tradition manual method of Pounding to de-husk the rice grains. Winnowing is the process to separate the resulting brown rice from the husk. We'll also teach you how to look for earthworms and use them as baits to do fishing at a hole with a bamboo pole. After lunch, we'll go trekking in the bamboo forest. |
Day 5: |
This is a day out from the rice farm to allow you to take in some sights and places of interest in Chiang Rai - you have a choice of a tour to the Mae Kok River with elephant ride or a city tour. In the evening, you'll learn Bamboo Weaving and you're welcome to weave as many items as you delight to bring home. |
Day 6: |
This is the day to bid farewell. We'll send you to the Chiang Rai International Airport. If you wish to extend your stay to explore other parts of Thailand, we would be pleased to help you with travel arrangement. |
Full Board (Lodging + Meals) and Transportation:
- Lodging and home-cooked farm meals (breakfast/lunch/dinner) inclusive.
- Transportation from/to Chiang Rai International Airport inclusive.
Suitable for:
- Families interested in going on nature-bound experiential vacations.
- School groups (teachers and students) who are keen to learn first-hand agricultural living and rice planting process. Group size not more than 16.
- City folks keen on taking a break from city stress and returning to the embrace of Mother Nature for recharging and renewal.
Capacity:
- To ensure the highest level of personal touch, proper guidance and quality of learning in the rice farming experience, we limit to max 4 families or max group size of 16 persons (adults/kids) for any 6-day stay period.
Fees:
- S$480 (Singapore Dollars) per person (inclusive of program + full board + transport to/from Chiang Rai International Airport).
- Half price for child below 10 years old and free for child below 5 years old.
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2-Day-1-Night Bamboo Forest Experience (any time of the year)
The bamboo forest has an indescribable natural magnetic draw. Being in the bamboo forest, you can't help but be amazed by the life force of the long, slender yet ultra strong bamboo, growing in teamwork cluster, ever straight and upright, and be awed by the orderliness within a seemingly chaotic forest scene.
Bamboo is such a wonderful plant that feed us, clothe us, provide the material for construction of shelters, furniture, farm and household tools, and for weaving into all kinds of useful things.
In this Bamboo Forest Experience, Father Gun will lead you deep into the bamboo forest to appreciate the eco-diversity of plants and wild life there, show you the different kinds of bamboo, and the very wide ranging usefulness of bamboo. You will also enjoy a self-cooked meal with bamboo rice in the forest.
Bamboo
Bamboo forest
Bamboo table
Lunch in forest
Bamboo mugs
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Itinerary:
Day 1: |
We'll meet you at either the Chiang Rai International Airport or the city and bring you to the Tigerland Rice Farm preferably before noon. After lunch, we'll conduct an orientation tour of the farm. Over tea at the Farmer's Lodge, you'll learn the multitude uses of bamboo by the hill tribes and try your hands at bamboo weaving. You are welcome to weave as many items as you delight to bring home. After dinner, we'll do a night trek, armed with head lamps, into the bamboo forest to observe frogs and wild life by the stream. |
Day 2: |
After breakfast, we'll enjoy a morning walk into the bamboo forest to appreciate its freshness and natural beauty. With luck, you may come face to face with wild life. Father Gun will amaze you how he is able to construct a lunch table out of bamboo within half an hour. You'll enjoy an unforgettable lunch prepared in-situ in the forest by a stream. You'll return to Tigerland Rice Farm by mid-afternoon for checking out. We'll send you to the Chiang Rai International Airport or the city, as you wish. |
Full Board (Lodging + Meals) and Transportation:
- Lodging and home-cooked farm meals (breakfast/lunch/dinner) inclusive.
- Transportation from/to Chiang Rai International Airport or city inclusive.
Suitable for:
- Families interested in going on nature-bound experiential vacations.
- School groups (teachers and students) who are keen to learn first-hand agricultural living and rice planting process. Group size not more than 16.
- City folks keen on taking a break from city stress and returning to the embrace of Mother Nature for recharging and renewal.
- Not suitable for children under 9 years old as the activity involves trekking in the forest.
Capacity:
- To ensure the highest level of personal touch, proper guidance and quality of learning in the bamboo forest experience, we limit to max 4 families or max group size of 16 persons (adults/kids).
Fees:
- S$200 (Singapore Dollars) per person (inclusive of program + full board + transport to/from Chiang Rai International Airport).
- Half price for child below 10 years old.
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Rice Planting (Jun-Jul)