This document discusses opportunities for creative tourism in Thailand focused on learning about rice farming. Visitors can experience life-changing lessons by participating in rice planting or harvesting activities with local farmers. Farms like Tigerland Rice Farm in Chiang Rai and Gecko Villa in Udon Thani offer 6-day programs where visitors can immerse themselves in the rice farming process and culture. Learning about Thailand's role as the world's top rice producer reveals undiscovered aspects of oneself and how its people have sustainably fed the world for centuries through their agricultural practices and traditions.

1. Creative Tourism in Thailand
Rice Farming

2. Rice Discover how Thais help feed the world
Farming
There is a part of you
that you have yet to discover
A
journey to Thailand, Thailand’s diverse landscape
Southeast Asia’s offers an array of learning activities
emerald, offers a for visitors with local experts
rare opportunity to eager to share their knowledge.
discover another Through experiential travel,
you. It is difficult to visitors to Thailand can expect
put one’s finger on a life-changing lessons that will
single attribute that makes Thailand reveal undiscovered aspects of
so alluring. Its sheer beauty and themselves.
rich history have drawn visitors for
as long as one can remember. At Learning to feed the world and
the core of Thailand are its people how Thailand, the world’s top rice
offering warm hospitality, age-old grower, has passed on their farming
wisdom and centuries-old art and skills for centuries is one option
tradition. being served to interested visitors.

3. Story
I
f you read the label on a bag Thai farmers have ageless experience
of rice chances are it will list growing rice and caring for the land
Thailand as the country of origin. that supports them. Students will learn
Rice is part of the Thai essence to live in a symbiotic manner with their
and the country’s staple food. surroundings, discovering that the
Thai life still revolves around essence of living with less can actually
the rice seasons with planting lead to a sense of great abundance.
in May through July, when the rains
start signaling the end of the dry The Land of Smiles offers numerous
season and many villages celebrate places to learn about rice farming
by shooting homemade rockets into and even work with farmers.
the skies to bring the rains. More
ceremonies will then be held in Tigerland Rice Farm in Chiang
October or November, when the rice Rai (www.tigerlandricefarm.com/
will be harvested. programs.html) has earned wide
I’ve discovered
that I can feed
the world.
acclaim from visitors and the media Like Tigerland Rice Farm, Gecko
as a “positive idea changing the Villa in Udon Thani (www.geckovilla.
world for the better,” reported San com/activities.html) offers a great
Francisco-based Ode magazine. learning holiday In Thailand’s
The six-day eco-rice planting visits northeast, known as Isaan. In
in June and July and six-day eco- addition to rice farming, Gecko Villa
rice harvesting visits in October provides a wide range of activities
and November introduce students that allow visitors to immerse
to a new world while offering a life themselves in the culture and
changing experience. picturesque surroundings.

4. Where To Learn
Learning about rice growing is possible in many areas of the country and can be
easily added to your fun-filled and learning holiday Thailand.
Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Nakorn Pathom,
Suphanburi, Udon Thani
Photo by Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi Chiang Mai
Photo by Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi Chiang Mai
Photo by
Buffalo Village
Photo by Tigerland Rice Farm
Photo by Rose Garden Riverside Photo by Geckovilla Photo by Tigerland Rice Farm

5. Directory of places offering
Rice Farming
Chiang Mai Suphanburi
Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi Chiang Mai Buffalo Village
www.mandarinoriental.com/chiangmai www.thai-tour.com/eng/suphanburi/buffalo-village/
Chiang Rai Udon Thani
Tiger land Rice Farm Geckovilla
www.tigerlandricefarm.com www.geckovilla.com
Photo by
Nakorn Pathom
Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi Chiang Mai Rose Garden Riverside
www.rosegardenriverside.com
Photo by Geckovilla Photo by Tigerland Rice Farm

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