8.00am: Our guide meets up at your hotel and start the tour to Bat Trang ceramic village, the most famous and long-standing pottery village in Vietnam with a nearly 1,000 years old historic development. There’s the upper side which commercialized and focuses on glazed ceramic items and the riverside ‘ancient’ village leans more towards earthenware and pottery products. You will visit a small family factory to see how the artisans form, paint and glaze with unique products made by skillful hands of the artists in harmony with the soil’s spirit and even have a chance to practice your talent with wet clay and a mould.
12h00: Have lunch at a local restaurant and enjoy the short drive to reach Dong Ho to explore the town and learn about its main industry. This village is famous throughout Vietnam for its more than 300-year-old tradition of producing Vietnamese woodblock paintings. The process of making this folk art is created by hand using traditional methods and even in 2017, continues to thrive. The art created here portrays the realities and dreams of the artist and the viewer and is an important part of the Vietnamese cultural aesthetic.
Our last stop before returning to Hanoi will be at But Thap Pagoda. One of northern Vietnam’s most famous pagodas, it is an impressive complex of ten buildings and many masterpieces of wood carving. The most famous culture housed at the pagoda is the masterpiece of thousand-handed and the thousand-eyed Guanyin
Back to Hanoi at about 17.30. End your trip
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