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Pick up at your hotel: 08:30 am
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Best Handicraft Villages to Visit

Select your 3 favourite handicraft villages for 8 hours

Bat Trang Ceramic & Pottery Making Village: Bat Trang is a village in North Vietnam about 13 kilometers south east of Hanoi, on the Red river. It has been famous for its ceramics for a thousand years, particularly dinnerware and ornamental ware. The Bat Trang producers export ceramic goods annually to the value of over $40 million a year. They are also able to produce high quality goods to order, meeting the demands of international buyers and their markets, manufactured using controlled processes using modern gas-fired kilns. Wander narrow streets and see the vendors with their art-ware, tableware and ornaments. Little animals, figurines, huge vases, tea sets. Studios with antique collections, craftspeople making the pots, applying the plentiful designs, setting the kilns. Packers loading trucks for all parts. Walk to the river, see the old kilns and look for their red fires. Enjoy cup of tea, it tastes better in Bat Trang! Buy some ceramics so you can enjoy your Bat Trang experience at home.
Van Phuc Silk Making Village: During their stay in Hanoi, most tourists insist on a trip to Van Phuc Silk Village, the famous silk village of Hanoi to contemplate the genuine traditional silk-making industry. Van Phuc Silk Village is situated on the banks of Nhue River, 8 km southwest of Ha Noi. The village has been much well known for its traditional sericulture, weaving, and silk products. Tourists coming here are lured by various beautiful shirts, crafts, ties, dresses and many other things made of silk available in the village. What is special is that the silk is made by very simple looms, which is the genuinely traditional Vietnamese way of making silk. If you are going to buy something from Vietnam as gifts for those at home, silk and clothes made of silk are available around in the village for your choice. Though the days when Vietnam's silk was reserved for nobility are long gone, what would never change is the sense of romance and luxury imparted by silk, a luminous cloth type. With 2000 years of history behind them, the silk weavers of Van Phuc Silk village are still busy, weaving dreams.
Dong Ho Folk Painting Making Village: Dong Ho Village is located on the Duong River’s left bank in Thuan Thanh District, Bac Ninh Province. The village is about 35km north from Ha Noi and has perfected the art of woodcarving paintings. They traditionally used do paper, made from the bark of poonah trees found in deep jungle. The bark was coated with white powder from the ground sea shells. The prints were then drawn, carved into wood blocks, and reprinted on the handmade, natural do paper. The vibrant colors used for printing were gathered from nature as well, the black color created from the charcoal of dried bamboo branches and leaves, the red from powdered gravel, the indigo from forest leaves, the blue from verdigris, the amber from turpentine, the yellow from aniseed, and the white from ground egg and sea shells.
Duyen Thai & Ha Thai Lacquer Making Village: Like all other ancient villages in the Red River Delta, Ha Thai has a communal house and pagoda for worshipping the village founder. Unlike most villages it is also famous far and wide for its distinguished lacquer ware that has existed for over 2000 years. Ha Thai lacquer ware products are made with a centuries-old technique of applying and polishing layer upon layer of Vietnamese lacquer (Rhus Succedanea). Combined with egg shell and mother-of-pearl inlays, the lacquer ware found here comes in thousands designs and models. Among the most common are boxes, trays, vases, pots, albums, lamp-shades, plates and paintings. Each product is not only pleasing to the eye, but also useful and durable
Chuong Conical Hat Making Village: This small village of Ha Tay Province, 40 kilometers on the west of Hanoi, has maintained its reputation for over three centuries. Just like Van Phuc villagers with their fine silks, Chuong people have their own pride for the famous Non. In the old time, the Vietnamese wore the conical hats to hide the rain and the sun. The conical hats fabricated with a bamboo frame and covered by leaf. Each household of Chuong village can produce the conical hat. The materials are simple: leaves for covering; bamboo for the frame, rattan strings and now the industrial thread, some rattans to fabricate the frame. Although it is such simple only, a white leaf conical with roll and equal thread line require a talent producer. There are various kinds of conical hat, thick, solid or thin, elegant. In the old time, there were hats with silk tasseled trap, bamboo hat worn by Buddhist monks, by soldiers.