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Phu Lang - Dai Bai Village

Region: Hanoi & Around

Duration: 1 day

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Package type: Day Trips & Excursions

Phu Lang craft village is situated at the poetic Cau River. It impresses tourists with its simplicity. Among dozens of craft villages in the Cau River area, the cradle of the Red River civilization, Phu Lang is well known with many ceramic artisans.

The renowned craftsmen of Dai Bai bronze craft village only remain in a very small number. It has been extremely difficult for them to maintain this traditional occupation as the rhythm of the modern living drum has reverberated through the village, causing many social difficulties for a community once rich in cultural tradition.

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We depart from Hanoi at 8 am and drive to Phu Lang pottery village (50 km away from Hanoi), located in Phu Lang Commune, Que Vo District, Bac Ninh Province. Many tourists like traveling to the village because they have a chance to make ceramics themselves. Clay, the materials used to make ceramics, is bought from other places and transported to the village by boat. Tourists can stay at villagers’ homes to enjoy the peaceful atmosphere, see the ceramic kilns mushrooming along the dykes or on the low hills near Luc Dau Giang, facing the Cau River, which runs all the year round.

Have lunch. Continue to visit Dai Bai Village - it is famous for long aged handicraft village. This point itself creates distinctiveness for this village, is the well-known village of forging brass.

Come back to Hanoi. Tour ends late afternoon.