Living Land Rice Farming Experience

Recommended by 97% of travelers

Luang Prabang, Laos

5 hours (approx.)
Pickup offered
Group discounts
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

Explore our promoted experiences

Luang Prabang, Laos

The Namkhan - Day Pass (Premium Wellness Experience)

from $120

Camping and Cooking Classes in Primary Forest in Luang Prabang

Luang Prabang, Laos

5.0

(2)

Camping and Cooking Classes in Primary Forest in Luang Prabang

from $129

Day-time Bamboo weaving & Cooking Classes join-in

Luang Prabang, Laos

4.9

(38)

Day-time Bamboo weaving & Cooking Classes join-in

from $44

Price varies by group size

Viator earns higher commissions on experiences featured here

Overview

Immerse yourself in local life with a visit to a community farm just outside of Luang Prabang. Learn how to work a rice field, as well as other activities including bamboo weaving, sugar cane pressing, and blacksmithing. Afterward, reward your efforts with a delicious lunch of typical Luang Prabang dishes and fruit. Proceeds go toward supporting villagers with their studies.

Hands-on local farming experience in Luang Prabang
Learn more about local culture than you could on a typical tour
Option to add on additional excursions to waterfalls, caves, etc..
Opportunity to support local people around Luang Prabang

What's Included

All Fees and Taxes

Lunch

Lunch included only when you choose option including Lunch

Meeting and Pickup

Pickup points

Select a pickup point

Pickup details

Pickup from your hotel at 8:00. Please let us know your pickup location by the day before tour

Operating hours
.8:00 am

Itinerary

The Living Land Farm

3 hours 20 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
Not wheelchair accessible
Not recommended for travelers with back problems
Not recommended for pregnant travelers

No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
Most travelers can participate
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 20 travelers

Supplied by

Cancellation Policy

This experience is non-refundable and cannot be changed for any reason. If you cancel or ask for an amendment, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

Traveler Photos

Gallery picture 1 (from a traveler's review)

Gallery picture 2 (from a traveler's review)

Gallery picture 3 (from a traveler's review)

Gallery picture 4 (from a traveler's review)

Gallery picture 5 (from a traveler's review)

Featured review

margaret_c

This was an amazing experience. The farm is beautiful, nestled against the mountain. You learn all about organic rice farming and get to participate. Johnny, our guide was very knowledgeable and told us family stories. Planting, harvesting and cooking rice is a long process - most which I had no idea about before today. I highly recommend this tour!

Reviews

4.9

based on 97 reviews

Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor

We perform checks on reviews

Don’t miss this!

Monica_K, Mar 2026

What a fabulous experience with hands-on learning all the steps for growing and harvesting rice. This was one of our favorite tours.

Rilp-off !

maxim_v, Dec 2025

This is a total rip-off!!! Viator charged us twice the actual price! For a family of four, that was more than $100 extra. Book directly with the farm.

Must do in Luang Prabang

margaret_c, Dec 2025

A definite yes

Alec_L, Mar 2025

A huge thank you to our guide, Johnny, and the wonderful families who support their community with this tour! A unique and highly recommended hands on working of the rice field through all 14 steps. Would recommend the tour and going all in, which includes being knee deep in mud at times! A fully immersive and worthwhile experience.

Very informative and fun

Lena_B, Feb 2025

We loved leaning about the hard work of growing rice. It was amazing to have such an informativ and interactive tour. I personally didn’t like the part were we interacted with Bentley, seemed a little unnecessary. We didn’t stay for lunch but we ate some of the snacks provided and they were very tasty. All in all I would recommend coming here, it was a unique and wonderful experience Little side note; we were told to be ready at 8am, to be on time but the driver showed up at 7:49 which was a little uncomfortable since we were still having breakfast. It also seemed unnecessary since we didn’t pick up anyone else and all the other tour members came 10 min after us.

Rice ,,, a great way to learn!!

Stewart_C, Jan 2025

A great way to learn about how rice is grown!! A wonderful hands on experience!! Get down in the mud!

Educational & Interactive Experience

Michael_S, Jan 2025

Very educational & immersive enjoyable experience. The tour guide was awesome and very knowledgeable about his family’s extensive farmland.

A great introduction to traditional rice growing.

Jim_S, Nov 2024

This is an amazing view of traditional rice growing and a lot of fun. We dug a planting trench behind a water buffalo, planted rice, harvested the grown rice, and went through each procedure of preparing it for sale and the table. We learned how really arduous and labor intensive traditional rice growing is. The local guide, Johnny, was an expert, personable and humorous teacher. Highly recommended.

Support the community and have a once in a lifetime experience.

John_S, Nov 2024

It’s amazing all the steps one has to go through in growing rice. This experience will make you appreciate the hard work that is put forth. The group is phenomenal and uses the farm and proceeds to support the community.

Rice farming

Kari_N, Jun 2024

Today we learned about rice farming. They have you take your shoes off and become a rice farmer for the day. You learn how to plant the seeds and then till the area to be planted using their water buffalo. How to harvest the rice, and cook the rice. I would do this tour again.

Amazing

Will_S, Jun 2024

Everything was wonderful. Our guide Geo was fantastic, and the experience is one I highly recommend!

Informative and fun!

Nicola_W, Mar 2024

This was a beautiful experience in a wonderful rural setting a short drive from the centre of town. There’s plenty of opportunity to try all stages of rice production and get really involved! Who knew it was such hard work and took such effort. Our guide Sai was great and taught us so much in a fun, informative and practical way. We didn’t stay for lunch but enjoyed the snacks provided. We loved this experience.

Very interesting and well...

ashley_d, Feb 2024

Very interesting and well organized tour around the rice fields. Guide was so knowledgeable and kind.

Rice farm great but organizational disaster

Magdalena_W, Jan 2024

The rice farm itself (and lunch) was amazing but everything around unfortunately not. It wasn't guided tour at all, we were brought to waterfall without any information about it and was said that we will meet with "guide" in 2 hours. At the end we were waiting for another group which should come back with us to the city and drove outside of city at first to drop off 1 person to come back to city centre and drop off the rest if group. Unorganized trip (Manifa tours), so book somewhere else, because as mentioned - a living land rice farm experience is totally worth it!

Don't Miss This!

Alexandra_B, Dec 2023

This was quite possibly the best experience I had in Laos. You get to see and have an hands-on experience in growing, harvesting, cooking and (of course) eating rice. Kham was wonderful - friendly, fun and knowledgeable. A definite must-do while in Luang Prabang!

Farm and Waterfalls. Make sure the driver takes you directly to the Falls

Andrew_E, Oct 2023

Kham our guide was a great teacher. We learned a lot and had fun in the fields. We booked an all day trip from the Living Land Farm to the waterfalls. DO NOT let the minivan take you back to your hotel after lunch. Have them take you directly to the waterfalls. They took us back to our hotel and then kept us waiting only to drive us right back passed the farm and into the waterfalls. We wasted 2 hours.

Fantastic day!

Philip_C, Jun 2023

So much to learn about rice and the local culture! Be prepared to work in the rice Paddy and get dirty! Suzanne the water buffalo was cute and gentle. Absolutely delicious lunch- don't skip that part!!!

Unique opportunity to learn about rice.

Dennis_G, Feb 2023

Excellent learning opportunity. Actually went into a rice field and worked. Plowed a field, planted rice seeds, transplanted rice. Lunch was excellent. Our guide was knowledgeable and professional. There was much added including learning about the way of life of the people. BEWARE -- you are going into a rice field -- you will get muddy, wear shorts.

Authentic Ricefarm

Jasmin_W, Apr 2025

Es war sehr Authentisch und unglaublich schön! Die Leute und unser Guide war wirklich toll! Wir haben die Zeit sehr genossen und hatten ein wirklich tolles Erlebnis da!