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Traditional village and Pagoda Private Tours

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Traditional village and Pagoda Private Tours
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Overview
This is ideal tour for those who are interested in craft and artwork. This day trip will take you to visit traditional viillages of Ha Noi, each village famous for its own trade and featured. Visit Bat Trang village famous for their ceramics while Van Phuc village is famous for silk. Duong Lam village famous for ancient temples and many hundred - year - old houses. 
Code: HN12
Duraton: 1 day
Departure: Daily
Departure From: Ha Noi
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Destination: HA NOI - TRADITIONAL VILLAGES
Itinerary
Program 1 (4 hours): Bat Trang Ceramic Village
Pick up at the hotel and transfer to the riverside village of Bat Trang Village, 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.
Included: Private car, English Speaking Guide, Water on car, entrance fee.
Program 2 (4 hours): Van Phuc Silk Village
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! On this half-day excursion from Hanoi you’ll be picked up at 08:00 and head to the nearby village of Van Phuc. You’ll travel in an air-conditioned vehicle, accompanied by an English-speaking guide.
Renowned for centuries for its silk production and self-sufficiency, the village has recently seen a revival of interest in its craft as the demand for silk has surged both domestically and internationally.
When you arrive, your guide will show you around the village, stopping to visit the families for whom silk production is their traditional work. You’ll also see the shrines of the village where the first masters are worshipped.
Hear a presentation from a group making silk, learning about the process from the planting of mulberry trees to the processing of silk thread taken from boiled cocoons. At the end of the presentation, you’ll have a chance to go shopping for locally made products.
Included: Private car, English Speaking Guide, Water on car, entrance fee.
Program 3 (Full day): Duong Lam Ancient Village
08:00 AM: Our driver & tour guide will pick you up at your hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter, then travel west of Hanoi to visit Duong Lam village, a purely agricultural village of the Northern Red River delta where still preserve many hundred-year-old houses. It will be your unique experience as you walk along tiny ancient alleys; visit Mong Phu temple in Mong Phu hamlet - the only hamlet whose original village entrance gate remains intact, dedicated to national heroes. Have some talks with the locals in their ancient houses by visiting the ancient houses of Mr. Lam, Mr. Ha, and Mr. Huyen. Enjoy your special lunch with Vietnamese foods in an ancient house.
PM: After resting, we continue driving to visit Mia Pagoda (another hamlet in Duong Lam village), is built in the 15th century and admire 287 statues of all sizes, among with are famous sculpture such as the statue of Buddha in the Himalayas and the statues of the Eight Vajra Deities. Then visit Ngo Quyen temple and Phung Hung temple, places dedicated to two national heroes Ngo Quyen and Phung Hung. Driving back Hanoi.

Price & Inclusion
Type Description Price
Option 1 PRG-1 (4 hour): BAT TRANG CERAMIC VILLAGE $62
Option 2 PRG-2 (4 hours): VAN PHUC SILK VILLAGE $68
Option 3 PRG-3 (Full day): DUONG LAM ANCIENT VILLAGE $99
 
Includes:
  • Private car,
  • English Speaking Guide,
  • Water on car,
  • Entrance fee,
  • Set menu lunch, bike.
Children rates:
  • Free of charge for children under 4 years sharing a bed with parents.
  • Surcharge 75% rate of adult for children (5-11 years) sharing a bed with parents.
  • Over 11 years is adult’s rate.
Notes:
  • The price is for 1 people, tour requested for group of 2 up.
  • The tour can change because of weather condition.
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