Mai Rut Community Tourism Enterprise

Mai Rut Community Tourism Enterprise is a village-run agritourism group in Khlong Yai district, Trat, near the Cambodian border. There’s no entry fee — it’s open daily from 08:00 to 16:00 — and the group makes its living by showing visitors the rice fields and vegetable plots that support the community, rather than through a ticket booth.

The core of a visit is farmland, not a curated exhibit. Community members work rice paddies and vegetable gardens across the subdistrict, and groups who arrange a visit in advance can join in planting or harvest work depending on the season. Cooking demonstrations using produce grown on-site and basic weaving are also offered by some households in the network, though exactly what’s running on a given day depends on who’s available — this isn’t a fixed daily programme with set time slots.

That’s the trade-off with a genuinely community-run enterprise: there’s no professional tour desk smoothing things over, so a visit works best with a bit of coordination beforehand. Contact the group by phone or through its Facebook page to confirm what’s on and, if you want a specific activity like the cooking session, to make sure someone’s available to run it.

Insider Tip: Message ahead rather than just showing up — the contact channels are a phone number and a Facebook page for the local homestay network, not an office with regular staff, so a same-day visit without notice risks finding nobody set up to host you.

Watch out: Transport is on you. There’s no bus route into Mai Rut village itself, so plan on a private car, rented motorbike, or a tour booked from Trat town, roughly 45 minutes north.

If you’re building a Khlong Yai day out, Hat Mai Rut beach is in the same subdistrict, and Ban Tha Ranae Community Tourism Enterprise runs a comparable village visit nearby.