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Staying in a green garden-house with a hospitable family is a wonderful journey into local culture. The slow living experience engages you with local art and architecture, home cooking and healthy lifestyle. Enrich your immersion with guided tour, hands-on craft activities around the peaceful Hue countryside.
The homestay nestled in a peaceful countryside nearby Thien Mu pagoda, only 7km from Hue City and 25km from Hue airport. The host family preserves a traditional garden house, consisting of a hundred year old beam house and 3000sqm compound of bonsai and orchards. All is constructed with Feng Shui orientation to maximize the flow of Chi and natural ventilation.
Guests stay in the main beam house, well renovated with two private rooms. Due to traditional layout, the rooms are small but equipped with quality bedding, fan or air conditioner plus windows to the fruit garden. There is one extra compartment privatised by curtain, for small kids or single travelers. Bathroom is located inside the house, with western-style WC, hot and rain shower. We provide quality towels and refilled shampoo, bath gel. The host family lives next wall and is always present to talk, arrange services and activities.
This one-night package offers a wholly “stay-connect-share” experience, filled with activities, dining and cultural interaction. It is possible to extend further nights and include more tours and activities. Highly recommended for couples, families with kids max.6 persons on a private basis. Child rate is applied for children 6-11 year old. Children 0-5 year old, sharing a bed with parents are free of charge. We can accommodate bigger groups with extra room in the host house, please use inquiry form for any special request.
Huế countryside (9km from Center)
2 days
On arrival, be heartily welcome with green tea, home grown fruits and a bit of family introduction. (Check-in from 14:00, early arrival is subject to availability). Relax by the orchid, bonsai courtyard or browse the garden with the housewife for a garden blazing, picking ingredients for cooking.
If arriving early, follow your guide on a leisurely cycling tour to explore the peaceful surrounding. Stop by some local craft workshops to try fun and interactive activities. Continue to visit hidden temples, cultural relics (eg. Thien Mu pagoda if requested). With his company, share some tea & talk with friendly local family. There are plenty of green trails for you to cycle as much as you like. Come back home and pamper your feet in a hot basin, cooked with garden herbs like betel leaf, lemon grass, grapefruit leaves & peel, sea salt…
In the evening, join the master chef to prepare some family delicacies. Enjoy the dinner together. It is even more fun if you learn and practice some conversation in Vietnamese.
Stay up late for convivial chat over some cups of green tea or local beer or explore a book, movie selection about Hue, Vietnam. Spend a sweet night in the comfy country home.
Wake up with the chant of rooster or pagoda bell resonance. Do some exercise in the luxuriant garden and breathe in the fragrance of orchids, ornamental plants, and citrus fruits.
Enjoy a healthy breakfast with specialty Hue style “beef noodle soup”, or bread with eggs, seasonal homemade jam, butters…Green tea, Vietnamese coffee, “Caphe sua da” (iced coffee with condensed milk), fresh juices and fruits are on the list.
Take a leisurely stroll to an adjacent pagoda or local craft workshop for further exploration. Or embark on a cycling guided exploration if you have not done it on the first day. Make some quality time exchanging with the hospitable homeowner before bid farewell “Tam Biet”.
It would be good to have direct access to the bathroom / toilet. We like the bike ride and meeting some local people and the foot spa.
Everyone was very friendly and helpful. We enjoyed ourselves enormously. Thank you!
The introduction to locals has been very special and the explanation of the religions has been very enlightening. The people have been absolutely charming & so friendly.
This is a very pretty garden house where the hotess is an excellent chef. We ate very well and sleep comfortably. Thanks to their hospitality. The cycle tour with Tu was marvellous and to return the garden house to the foot bath in pomelo was lovely. Tu is the best of guide.
Helping cook the breadfruit for supper the food was excellent. The bike ride was fun although we haven’t ridden bikes for many years. The walk was great fun and we saw rice papers drying and got close to some buffalo.