Eco-Vacation at Tigerland Rice Farm by Stone Edge Experiential

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Rice harvesting

Levelling paddy field

Sowing rice

Feeding cows

Reaping

Treshing

Elephant ride

Pounding rice

Winnowing rice

Bamboo

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ECO-VACATION @ TIGERLAND RICE FARM

In today's modern living, it's so easy to take so many things for grant. Simply because we seem to have been born conveniently into these things. Rice is one of them.

Rice farming in the paddy Many who are born and bred in the city know very little about how rice is grown. Although amongst the most primitive of farming, traditional organic rice farming has much to teach us about life's most important lessons and virtues in today's context. Lessons such as "You Reap What You Sow" and "Harvesting Comes in a Different Season from Planting" (virtue of delayed gratification), all come alive through the rice farming experience.

Tigerland Rice Farm offers anyone who is keen to experience rice farming in a systematically guided manner for personal learning or as a family eco-educational holiday trip.

Tigerland Rice Farm is situated in Chiang Rai in northern Thailand. The farm is the middle of beautifully untouched farm country with an abundance of natural richness. It's the perfect place to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life and return, at least temporarily, to the embrace of Mother Nature to be reminded of the very basics of natural living.

Authentic living as a farmer in a traditional, organic rice farm amidst the beautiful hills of Northern Thailand. You'll enjoy peace and tranquility, fresh air, wonderful sounds of nature , and a week of escape from modern stress and maddness of city traffic and electronic noises.

PROGRAMS

What/When/Cost

Itnerary

6-DAY RICE PLANTING EXPERIENCE
(June - July)

Dates:
a. 5-10 June 2010
b. 19-24 June 2010
c. 3-8 July 2010
d. 17-22 July 2010

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, you'll be systematically guided by Father Gun (Dean of Tigerland Rice Farm) to discover the magic of Nature through working the process of rice planting. Father Gun speaks Thai, Karen and English (which he actually taught himself by reading the dictionary every morning).

Day 1: Pick-up from Chiang Rai International Airport; check-in at Tigerland Rice Farm; orientation tour of the farm; rest.

Day 2: Preparing the paddy field - irrigating with stream water, levelling of paddy field; enjoy a refreshing dip at a river. Bamboo rice dinner.

Day 3: Transplanting of rice seedlings into the paddy fields; visit to Chiang Rai Night Bazaar.

Day 4: More transplanting of rice seedlings; nature trek to nearby Lahu Village and to experience the natural beauty and richness of the farm country - rivers, plants, fruits, vegetables and wild life. Exploration of the paddy in the night.

Day 5: Hill tribe village educational tour - visit the Yao, Akha and Padong hill tribes to learn about their lifestyle and culture. Bamboo weaving.

Day 6: Check-out of Tigerland Rice Farm, depart from Chiang Rai International Airport.

6-DAY RICE HARVESTING EXPERIENCE
(October - November)

Dates:
a. 23-28 Oct 2010
b. 6-11 Nov 2010
c. 20-25 Nov 2010
d. 4-9 Dec 2010

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...

Day 1: Pick-up from Chiang Rai International Airport; check-in at Tigerland Rice Farm; orientation tour of the farm; rest. Preparation of the harvesting tools.

Day 2: Reaping and drying of rice stalks. Enjoy wading upstream in the forest river. Campfire with bamboo rice dinner.

Day 3: Reaping, bundling, treshing. Fishing at the hole. Visit to Chiang Rai Night Bazaar.

Day 4: Pounding and Winnowing. Trekking in the bamboo forest.

Day 5: Educational tour to the Mae Kok River with elephant ride. Bamboo weaving.

Day 6: Check-out of Tigerland Rice Farm, depart from Chiang Rai International Airport.

Cost:
S$488 per adult/child (full boarding but excludes air fare)

Lodging & Meals:
Full lodging and home-cooked healthy farm meals will be provided at the Tigerland Farmers' Lodge

Transportation:
Pick-up from/send to Chiang Rai International Airport

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.
- City folks keen on taking a break from city stress and returning to and be re-charged in the embrace of Mother Nature.

Capacity:
To ensure the highest level of personal touch, proper guidance in the rice planting experience and learning quality, we prefer to admit no more than 3 families or 15 persons (adults/kids) for any 6-day stay period.

ECO-GUIDES

Principal Guide	Dean of Rice Farming	Experiential Architect

Yongyoot Watasittikul (Kitt) Kitt is a new generation Karen who aspires to keep alive the gradually disappearing traditions of his Karen hilltribe heritage. He hopes to do it through educational tourism and guiding. Tigerland was named after his great grandfather, whose nickname was Tiger. He was a legendary hero who was remembered for his courage in fighting off a tiger to save the village.	Songkian Watasittikul (Gun) Father Gun is Kitt's father and a highly experienced rice farmer who believes in the traditional organic style of farming. He advocates the use of natural fertilizers and refrains from using any form of agro-chemical fertilizers, pesticides or addictives in his paddy. Father Gun is jovial and a patient educator in rice farming and all things nature in his farm country. He taught himself spoken English from a language book.	Alvin Yong (Kop) Alvin is the founder and Chief Experiential Architect of Stone Edge Experiential in Singapore. He was instrumental in the conceptualization and architecturing of the rice farming programs for Tigerland Rice Farm. The story of how this incidental experience was born is found in his family's vision project, Colours Of Life, at www.coloursoflife.info.

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