Hanoi Craft Villages Day Tour

What To Expect in Hanoi Craft Villages Day Tour

The Red River Delta consists of many different fertile rivers, where tons of conventional trade villages are formed. Their handicrafts have appeared in the countryside of Vietnam for decades, becoming the main commercial activities and a source of livelihood of farmers besides agricultural production. With Hanoi Craft Villages Day Tour you will seize an opportunity to visit the most traditional villages named Bat Trang Pottery Village, Van Phuc Silk Village and Dong Ho Painting Village.

Each individual craftsman have been forged not only their finest craftworks but also their own characteristics representative of distinctive communities, their way of life, traditions, and unique cultures.

Highlights of 1 day Hanoi Craft Villages Tour

Experience and learn about generations – pass handicraft job in Northern Vietnam, watch skillful technique of local craftman.
Visit local workshop in Bat trang village, one of the most ancient villages in Vietnam, which have historical rich in white clay, stepping stones for fine ceramic products. Learn about making process of Vietnamese ceramic.
Visit Dong Ho Folk Painting and But Thap pagoda. You ‘ll find a special technique and process to make a folk painting that find nowhere else in the world.
Visit Van Phuc, the oldest silk-weaving village in Vietnam and home to the finest silk products

ITINERARY

AM8.00: Driver and local guide will pick you up from hotel to start Hanoi Craft villages tour. The car trip will take you along the Red river bank to visit Bat Trang ceramic village, which is located about 18km from Hanoi. We have chance to see the ceramic worker creating ceramic products with full process or shopping for some wonderfull souvernir in the ceramic market.

Keep going to Dong Ho Painting village, an ancient village making folk painting, where the local artists make reflect their wishes for lucks and their perception of everyday life in the village on paper. The Dong Ho paintings are used for Tet Holiday’s decoration with lucky meaning. We also visit But Thap pagoda, the crad of Vietnam Buddhism and enjoy the peace of temple’s atmotphere with special and unique things: Bao Nghiem Tower where placed a relic (xa li) of the first ancestor – the monk Chuyet Chuyet or Buddha statue “Thien Thu Thien – Thousand eyes and hands” made in 1656 with 3.7m high, 2.1m wide.

Rerurn to Hanoi downtown for lunch at local restaurant.

Afternoon, we going to visit Van Phuc silk village, the most ancient of Hanoi Craft villages with more than 1200 year olds. Van Phuc is proud to be the most ancient silk village which provides the best silk in Vietnam.

Visitors to Van Phuc village will be impressed by typical manner of an ancient village in the north of Vietnam with banyan tree, well, communal house, and the sound of power-looms everywhere. Walking on the main road in Van Phuc, tourists will be lost in the world of silk with various products like shirts, ties, crafts, dresses… made of silk available in the village. Free shopping in silk market or local workshops.

PM4.00: Drop back to hotel. End of Hanoi Craft villages day tour

What's Includes and Excludes in Hanoi Craft Villages Tour ?

Includes:

Private car transfer as intenarary
Professional English-speaking tour guide
(other language available upon request)
Lunch at local restaurant
Entry fees for all visits as mentioned in the program
01 bottle of mineral water per person

Excludes:

Drinks, gratuities and personal expenses
Travel insurance

Tour Price

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$85

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