To the Vietnamese, the countryside is the most peaceful place evoking the peasants’ simple lives, the image of bamboo trees, communal houses, and banyan trees, the ferries and traditional villages such as Bat Trang pottery village, Dong Ho folk painting village, Dong Ky carpentry village etc.... The people in the countryside are very skilful with many handicrafts contained the Vietnamese culture, the traditional usages and customs.
ITINERARY
PRG-1: BatTrangVillage
Pick up
at hotel and transfer to the riverside village of BatTrangVillage, 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. The trip ends after
arrival in Hanoi.
PRG-2: Van Phuc, a silk village is a great place
to silk cloth being produced on the loom .There is a showroom where you can buy
silk by the meter, much more exciting that buying it in the shops! Continue to
visit Tram pagoda &Tram gian pagodas.
PRG-3:Bat Trang - an old pottery village, Dong Ho - a painting village, here they make 'Giay do' paper and
paint them with traditional designs. All of paper is made by hand and some,
still in the traditional way with all natural products. But Thap pagoda, Dong Ky -
carpentry village. Here they made furniture inlaid with mother of pearl and
finished off with layer of clear lacquer. In laying the mother of pearl is
highly labour intensive, see how it is delicately sawed info fine fish-bone
sliver and paints takingly set into wood.
PRG-4: Thay pagoda & Tay Phuong pagoda
Pick up at your hotel and depart for HaTay province (40km). Visit Thay Pagoda
(1072 - 1129) where superior Monk Tu Dao Hanh – ancestor of Vietnam water
puppet show, led his religious life. Visit CacCo, Bo, GioCave.
Drive to Tay Phuong pagoda (6th – 7th centuries) where 76 Buddha sculptured
statues since 17th & 18th centuries have been kept. Conclude tour and back
to your hotel.
To the Vietnamese, the countryside is the most peaceful place evoking the peasants’ simple lives, the image of bamboo trees, communal houses, and banyan trees, the ferries and traditional villages such as Bat Trang pottery village, Dong Ho folk painting village, Dong Ky carpentry village etc.... The people in the countryside are very skilful with many handicrafts contained the Vietnamese culture, the traditional usages and customs. 
