Home-stay in Duong Lam Ancient village December 11, 2009

Duong Lam is 50km to the west of Hanoi. The unique village, which was recognized as a National Cultural-Historic Relic, has houses which are around 200 years old. Of the nine hamlets within Duong Lam Village, Dong Sang and Mong Phu have maintained the most ancient houses: 441 and 350, respectively, among the total 956 traditional houses. The old Duong Lam Village is famous for its homes made of laetrile, a type of red soil. Most of these houses have their own courtyards surrounded by a laetrile wall.

From 2009, in order to meeting a highly increasing home-stay demand from our clients, the owner of mother company of Mekonghalongbaycruise.com invested and completed a very special product which would bring unforgettable memories of an ancient-style house. The house romantically named Vuon Trang (Moon Garden) offers visitors not only a peaceful atmosphere of Hanoi suburban but a specious chance to really join in and explore daily activities of Vietnamese in countryside

The house is designed strictly following the Viet ancient architectural style with 3 double beds (1.6mx2m) + 1 extra bed (1mx1.8 m) + 2 toilettes (1 toilet inside + 1 toilet outside) + kitchen. The surrounding is design with vegetable garden, small pond, bonsai garden, and playground in front of welcome house where will be the perfect place for enjoy fragrant Vietnamese tea under moonlight in full moon evenings

With the concept of preserving the quite and peaceful atmosphere and avoid the mass tourism attack to countryside, we decided the maximum capacity of Moon Garden is at 4 adults in double and 3 children. This group size is large enough for funny team-joining activities while small enough to avoid noisy and disturb to neighbors.

One night home-stay in Moon Garden will include
- Accommodation in Moon Garden house
- Meal plan: 1 Breakfast, 1 Diner (1 drink included), 1 lunch (1 drink included)
- Explore and understand Vietnamese culture and daily life activities:
+ Learn about herbs and fragrant vegetables
+ Have a bath with fragrant leaves (pomelo, herb leaves ect). Visitors collect all kinds of leaves around village gardens by themselves with the owner’s help
+ After dinner, wash hands in fragrant water with lemon leaves in ancient-style cooper basin
+ Smoothly foot massage in hot water with traditional medicine ingredients: ginger, salt and absinth.
+ Learning Vietnamese with locals
+ Introduction of traditional Vietnamese costumes (visitors can try)
+ With the house owners, joining in family worshipping activity
+ Help the house owner to prepare food offerings, cooking Vietnamese dishes, trimming and decorate ingredients. In case of not interesting in cooking class, visitor can go for fishing.
+ Visit some neighbor houses and friendly talk to house’s owners
+ Join in some farming activities (depending on farming seasons): Fishing, harvesting, gardening ect.)
+ Cycling or soft trekking to nearby villages
+ Free Internet connection

* Supplement for riding “xe trau” (buffalo wagon): 5 USD/pax

Price based on PRIVATE HOUSE
Group of 2 persons: 80 USD/person (double sharing)
Group of 3 persons: 70 USD/person (double sharing)
Group of 4 persons: 60 USD /person (double sharing)
Supplement for single bed: 15 USD
Child under 6 years old (shared bed): 25 USD
Child under 6 years old with extra bed: 40 USD
Child from 6 – 12 years old with extra bed: 55 USD
Private transfer: Hanoi – Moon Garden – Hanoi: 25USD per person
Hanoi – Halong – Moon Garden – Hanoi: 65USD per person

To book this excursion, visit site http://mekonghalongbaycruise.com or contact us
Via Email at: sales@mekonghalongbaycruise.com
Via Tel: 0084-43-6339577 Ext: 203 (Ms Liz - English speaking) or Ext: 202 (Ms Thao - French speaking)
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