Living Land Rice Farming Experience
Overview
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5 hours
Mobile ticket
Hand on experience of growing, harvesting and cooking sticky rice, “Kau Niau”, finishing with a degustation of some rice based specialties.
Morning Tour (without lunch)
8:00 : Pickup from your hotel
8:30-11.30 : Farming experience
Morning Tour (with Lunch)
Additional specialty lunch in the farm (11:30-)
Farming + Lunch + Waterfalls
After farming & specialty lunch, visit Ock Pop Tok Living Craft Center & Kuang Si falls (-18:00)
Farming + Mekong Sunset Cruise / Pak Ou Caves
After farming, visit Manifa elephant camp for lunch, Mekong sunset cruise & Pak Ou caves in the afternoon (-18:00)
Additional Info
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation Policy
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
What To Expect
The Living Land Farm
This charming community farm just outside of Luang Prabang overlooks wonderful Rice Fields and Mountains. Rice is planted all year round and they welcome guests who want to learn about Rice planting and other farm activities like bamboo weaving, sugar cane pressing, black smithing. The half day programme starts at 08.30 and finishes with a tasting of rice based snacks. After farming experience, we have lunch in the farm (a selection of typical Luang Prabang dishes and fruit.) Proceeds from the Rice Experience go to supporting over 60 students with their studies and they operate free English classes for the whole village.
What‘s Included
All Fees and Taxes
Lunch included only when you choose option including Lunch
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
Options
Morning Tour (without lunch)
Tour Schedule: Pickup (8:00-15), Rice Farming (8:30-11:30), Return to your hotel (11:45-12:00)
Duration: 4 hours
Pickup included
Farming + Lunch + Waterfalls
Tour Schedule: Farming (8:30-11:30), Lunch (11:30-12:30), Ock Pop Tok Living Craftcenter (12:40-14:00), Kuang Si Falls (14:45-17:00)
Duration: 9 hours: Return to your accommodation or city center at 17:30-18:00
Pickup included
Morning Tour (with Lunch)
Tour schedule: Pickup (8:00-8:15), Rice Farming (8:30-11:30), Lunch (11:30-12:30) Return to the hotel (12:45-13:00)
Duration: 5 hours 30 minutes
Specialty Organic Lunch
Pickup included
Reviews
87 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
An experience you mustn’t miss
debi285,,Dec 6, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00An amazing experience in a stunning setting. We can’t recommend this enough. We learned so much and had the chance to really get involved with all stages of rice production the traditional way.
Great, family friendly half day out
daveeR3952FN,,Dec 1, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Very informative, hands on experience. Covers every aspect of rice growing from seed to bowl, how every part of the rice is used. It's an optional extra, but the food is well worth trying also
On top!
352amandinef,,Nov 28, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Currently around the world, we have chosen this activity to discover the cultivation of rice. The setting is superb and our guide was great! The children loved this unique experience. If you want to discover rice cultivation we strongly recommend this address that we have not found in other countries!
to avoid
427thh,,Nov 15, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
1.00Not having booked, we asked for information the unpleasant welcome we were told come back tomorrow without further explanation, we were not even allowed to take pictures.
Super interesting
HENRI29260,,Nov 15, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Superb experience , we never imagined such complexity to produce quality sticky rice. We booked directly to the farm by phone for the afternoon. A tuk tuk came for us. $36 per person for 3 magical hours
Recommended!
yvonnebS2940VY,,Oct 29, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Great morning. The structure of the program is well put together with all kinds of extras. The guide Johnny was very clear, friendly and capable. We have learned a lot and are impressed by this labor-intensive work.
Amazing experience and would definitely do again
stephenmA8283YK,,Sep 12, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Amazing experience. Definitely worth the trip. Very fun and educational learning about the process of growing rice from a seed to a sapling to a full plant and then harvesting and cooking the rice.
Awesome experience!
964roxanam,,Sep 8, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Had a fantastic experience at Living Land! We learned so much about all the hard work that goes into rice and really enjoyed experiencing it firsthand. We also stayed at the homestay for two nights and absolutely loved it. It was so peaceful, the staff was super friendly and attentive, and the food was delicious. Would definitely recommend looking into it beyond the fabulous rice experience.
Interesting and fun for all ages!
R749JGemilyh,,Aug 21, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Our family, including four kids ages 10-17, really enjoyed this experience! Sai, our guide, was very thorough, interesting, and fun! We learned so much and we love all that this farm is doing in and for the community. We all would recommend this experience to anybody of any age.
I’ll never take rice for granted again.
KazDev,,Aug 20, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00What a fabulous morning learning about the life of a rice farmer in Laos. Our guide was one of the workers, and he led us through the 14 steps of rice farming with extensive knowledge, a very muddy hands and feet on approach, and a lovely sense of humour. Our group had a lovely time planting rice, harvesting it, ploughing with a buffalo, going through the processes of actually getting the rice to a stage where it could be cooked. And at the end, we were served a delicious lunch. All set within the beautiful mountain ranges around Luang Prabang. Definitely a must do.
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