Getting ready for Travel

 

There are 24 students in the Vietnam Ag travel class, co-taught by Dr. Russ Daly (Vet Sci) and Dr. Bob Thaler (AnSci).  We leave Monday morning, May 6^th and return on Sunday, May 19^th.  We fly into Hanoi and on the first day, we go to the US Embassy and get a briefing from our Foreign Ag Service staff.  After that, we spend the rest of the day at the Vietnam National University of Agriculture, which is their premier agricultural university.  While in the north we’ll go to the beautiful terraced fields at Sapa where students will get to plant rice by hand, go to Halong Bay, visit the “Hanoi Hilton”, visit multiple small farms, and tour a wet market.  We then fly to Danang in the central part of the country where we’ll visit a coffee processing facility, and tour historic Hoi An.  We finish the trip in the south at Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) by going down the Mekong River and tour farms raising a variety of products.  We’ll visit the Chu Chi Tunnels, other landmarks in the area, and have a meeting with people from the US Grains Council, the US Meat Export Federation , and the US Soybean Export Council.