Day 1: Ha Noi – Phu Thai Town: Cooking rice cake (29 Dec Lunar year): (L, D)
Pick you up at your hotel for a bus ride to the East (approximately 2 hours). Along the way you can enjoy the stunning scenery of the Red River delta with peaceful villages, farmers working in their green fields, herding their water buffalos, flocking their ducks, trading garden herbs by the side of the road. Upon arrival at Phu Thai town, take a rest and have lunch with the local people.
Tet is a huge celebration lasting three days. Families save money, store food, and plan far in advance for Tet and it the  major holiday in Vietnam. The Vietnamese take extreme care to start the New Year out right. They buy new clothes, paint and clean their homes, cook three days worth of food, pay off all debts and make amends to rid themselves of all bad feelings. Cleaning is frowned on during Tet because one would not want to sweep out any good luck. Digging and drawing water is also not allowed so the ground and water can enjoy the holiday.
Rice cake is our custom dish, which never lacks in Tet “Nguyen Dan”  Lunar New Year of the Vietnamese people. You will have a chance to see and make the rice cake with the local people. The cake will be made very careful with ingredients: beans, sticky rice soaked in water the day before, pork meat for filling must be pig with full lean, aft and peel. Rice cake is wrapped square, neither tight nor loose. Rice cake should be boiled at once, by wood, wood duct and rice husk is better.
Over night at home stay or Guest House

Day 2: Phu Thai Town: Enjoying eve’s day (30 Dec Lunar year): (B, L, D)
After breakfast, we will walk to the local market and enjoyi the exciting last day market of the year and visiting flower shows, contemplating the buds and blooms, and purchasing blossoms represents one of the distinct Vietnamese cultural characteristics
At about four o'clock in the afternoon on Tet eve all the markets close down so the people can go home and prepare for midnight when Tet begins.
The Giao Thua (Eve) is the most sacred point of time, the passage from the old to the New Year. It is popularly believed that in Heaven there are twelve Highnesses in charge of monitoring and controlling the affairs on earth, each of them taking charge of one year. The giao thua is the moment of seeing off the old chieftain upon the conclusion of his term and welcoming in the new one upon his assumption of office. For this reason, every home makes offerings in the open air to pray for a good new year.
After the giao thua is the start of the New Year with many customs and practices, amusements and entertainment, all of a distinct Vietnamese folk culture.
Before midnight, we will be woken up to go to the Pagoda for praying a good year.The atmosphere is very festive. Incense is burned in the homes and pagodas. The color Red, symbolizing good luck and happiness is seen everywhere.
Over night at the home stay or Guest house.

Day 3: Celebrating Tet in countryside – Ha Noi: (B, L)
People like to celebrate the first day of the New Year with their families and friends. They wear new clothes and children give traditional greetings to their elders before receiving the New Year gifts from them. People with happy experience over the last year are invited as the first person to enter the house. This act is called as Xong dat in Vietnamese.
The first visitor to a home is very important. If the first visitor is rich, prestigious, or happy then the family will have good fortune that year. Usually this visitor is a relative, but sometimes the family will invite a special guest that they feel will bring them good luck. The first day of Tet is reserved for visiting family and relatives. The second day is set aside for special guests and close friends to visit, and the third day is for teachers and business associates to make a visit. Negative talk and arguments are taboo.
Visitors should learn a sentence before their visit with a farewell wish for the family such as, “chuc mung nam moi (Happy new year)” and then "I wish that money will flow into your house like water, and out like a turtle".
Visiting and talking to some families and after lunch, take some rest and drive back to Hanoi.
End of tour!