Summary

Regarded as the cradle of Vietnam’s culture, The Red River delta is best known for its handicraft villages and traditional seasonal festivals. In this city tour, we offer you the unique opportunity to observe and experience the real rural life of Vietnamese peasants living in those handicraft villages. For foreign tourists, visiting Vietnam’s traditional villages is one of the best things to do in. This is a city tour and also a cultural tour since you will have chance to experience several Hanoi attractions, specifically the traditional villages and pagodas and join in interesting activities. You can choose from four options provided which may last for half day or six hours only as listed in the itinerary. Each tour option will lead you to specific Hanoi attractions which are not only the beauty spots, but also reflects the culture of Vietnamese.

Highlights

• Bat Trang – buy or make ceramic products (lots of lovely things to choose) or make a product by yourselves.
• Van Phuc – Get some silk products as gift for your family and friends.
• Thay and Tay Phuong pagodas – two among many pagodas in Hanoi suburb area which contains much traditional and religious value

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Itinerary

• Car pick up from Hanoi Old Quarter.

Program 1 (Half day):

• Bat Trang: Our guide will pick up at Hanoi Old Quarter and transfer to the riverside village of Bat Trang where distinctive ceramics are made and used throughout the delta region for over 500 years. The vitality of this village is still blown up by the hundreds of pottery kilns on fire day and night.
• We stroll around various cottage industries and watch craftsmen forming, painting and glazing their products in traditional ways. Tour ends at your hotel.

Program 2 (6 hours): 

• Van Phuc silk village, a great place to silk cloth through producing on the loom .There is a showroom where you can buy silk by the meter which is much more exciting than buying it in the shops!
• Continue to visit Tram pagoda & Tram Gian pagodas. Tour ends at your hotel.

Program 3: Bat Trang - an old pottery village, Dong Ho - a painting village

• In Dong Ho Village, they make Giay do paper and paint them with traditional designs. The paper is handmade and some are still in the traditional way with all natural products.
• Your trip will continue with a pagoda, But Thap and a carpentry village, Dong Ky. In Don Ky, they made furniture inlaid with mother of pearl and finished off with layer of clear lacquer. In laying the mother of pearl is highly labor intensive. You’ll see how it is delicately sawed into fine fish-bone sliver and paints takingly set into wood. Tour ends at your hotel.

Program 4: Thay (Master Pagoda) & Tay Phuong Pagoda.

• Our car will pick you up at 8.30 or 13.30. We shall enjoy a pleasant drive through the countryside villages near Hanoi to visit Thay Pagoda, which represents a beautiful legend about the origin of the water puppet arts.
• Afterwards we will visit Tay Phuong Pagoda, home to 80 wooden statues of various shape and sizes of Buddist Arhats. On the way back to the hotel, you will have a chance to visit a famous traditional silk trade village – the Van Phuc village. Tour ends at your hotel.

Tour Pricing

 

TOUR CLASS	JOIN GROUP (SIC) Price	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
opt 1/2 (4 hours - without lunch)	40	80	45	33	27	23	21	19	18	17
opt 3/4 (6 hours - without lunch)	47	82	47	35	29	25	23	21	20	19

 

Additional Information

Inclusions:

• Full transfers by A/C tourist car
• Entrance fee
• English speaking guide

Exclusions:

• Visa arrangement
• Accommodation
• Other personal expenses
• Lunch
• Travel Insurance

What to bring for this trip:

• Comfortable and suitable clothes (when visiting pagodas in Vietnam, you should not wear clothes which are too short or too thin)
• Camera to take pictures
• Money in cash to buy souvenirs

Tour leader and local guide

In this tour, you have the benefit of professional English-speaking local guide with special experience of every stop-offs in the trip. When your departure reaches around 10 travelers or more, you will have an experienced tour leader whose passion and knowledge will impart so much inspiration. Call us at hotline….. to get to the operator whenever you need help during the trip.

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