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We provide private car of 7seats (max for 4 people) for sightseeing the some handcraft villages in Hanoi and the travel schedules should be:

Pick up at your hotel at 08.30 am and driving for Bat Trang ceramic village, some 16km away from Hanoi, start your walking to visit local family, market and ancient village, next will return back Hanoi for lunch.

After lunch, at 1.30 pm, we will depart for Ha Dong Silk Village, some 20km from Hanoi, walking and sightseeing the village, tour ends, drive back Hanoi and transfer back your hotel at 04.00 Pm ( surcharge is applied = 16$/ 1hour)

Car hire included: Driver, Gas, Road tolls, Parking fee

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Hanoi highlights:

1, Bat Trang Pottery Village

Some decades recently, the vitality of this village is still blown up by the thousands of pottery-kiln on fire day and night.
In the period about 12th - 14th century, there are a numbers of families in Bo Bat Pottery Village (in Thanh Hoa Province now) -they were Bui, Phung, Tran and Vu families- coming there to work pottery, selling it to people in city even doing business with foreigners. At first, it was called Bach Ho Group and when there are the thousands of pottery-kiln, it was called Bat Trang - the age of name is as approximately old as the age of group.

Who was the Bat Trang pottery ancestor? As a popular documentary he is Hua Vinh Kieu who gained a pupil scholar certificate under the reign of Ly. On the occasion of being sent to the North of the country under the Sung Dynasty ( China today) as King’s envoy, he learnt work and taught to people when he came back. He was regarded as the founder. But according to the "Dao Tuong Kinh Su Bi Ky" epitaph, Tran Hoe Doctor in Tu Chi built it. Quy duke, Nguyen Thanh Chau, in 1737. He was the founder. On the other theories, Luu Phuong was said to be the founder...

 When it was seen on the Dai Viet administrative map, Bat Trang products were got the favor of people from the top citizen class in Thang Long to the poor peasant in the country. Bat Trang family used items gone far abroad. From the early 15th century, China was the place with the tradition pottery work for the thousands of years and well known in the world but there were ever the tens of Bat Trang pottery sets in the tribute festival. Since then in every reign, in decline or prospect situations, Bat Trang Pottery Village still assured the worth of goods, kept position and passed every trial. It is proud of working, living, old origin in Bat Trang. In the Gia Lam proverb, there is a word: "living to be man in Bat Trang, dying to be tutelary spirit" that means it is very happy to be a man in Bat Trang because of the stable pottery work, big fortune. In Kieu Ki Village, there was a work of making Indian ink; material was the skin of buffalo. They had to kill buffalo and worship tutelary spirit so this tutelary was well off. Bat Trang likes a symbol of Vietnam traditional trade village.
It is a famous trade village. Recently, there are over 6,000 people in 1,500 families with the total area of 153ha. The rate of pottery kiln in Bat Trang is the first rank at the other same villages in the world. Most men in Bat Trang follow the traditional work (nine of ten) except for person leaving home. After over an innovation decade, many traditional trade villages are recovered, the innovation and increase of Bat Trang Pottery Village are increasing unbelievably. 
On the basic of tradition pottery technique, Bat Trang pottery workers have taken - abused-propagated greatly the progress of science technology into every stage in making pottery. It has made many types of top class pottery, that is useful and beautiful and it upgrades the sense of pottery art. The Bat Trang list of pottery getting high quality is longer more and more by day like bowl, dish, pot, cup, wine pot, a big flower-vase, leg lamp, lime-pot, big-bellied jar... It made by all sort of glazes as ancient pearl blaze, crackle glaze, dark glaze, indigo-blue flower glaze, grey flower glaze, melt glaze...

In 10/2004, Bat Trang Pottery Market was opened in the area of over 5.000m². It is not only the place to display and trade but also an interesting tourist site in Hanoi. 

2, Ha Dong Silk Village

Located on the bank of the Nhuệ River with velvety mulberry groves and rice fields, Vạn Bảo fiefdom has been known as mulberry planting and silkworm breeding village since the 9^th century.

According to a local legend, progenitor of the profession is Madam A Lã Thị Nương, the beautiful and well-mannered daughter of the land of Cao Bằng.

She descended the profession to villagers and helped “seven villages of La and three villages of Mỗ” to become the leading silk weaving villages in the country. Since long ago, the local people have honored her as tutelary god for their villages.

Specialty of Vạn Phúc textile village that is known everywhere include “lissome bud silk” with high durability, plain silk, embroidered silk, satin silk, etc. All the materials help people to feel their clothing airy and cool.

Thanks to perfect technology and fine art specifications plus rich and traditional colors and patterns, textile products of Vạn Phúc are very popular for all classes of people. Every year under the Nguyễn Dynasty (1802-1945), Vạn Phúc Village had to submit to the court in Huế a large volume of silk to be used as clothing for the royal family members and mandarins, and as contributions in the diplomatic relations.

In the years from 1932 to 1936, Vạn Phúc silk was brought to the exhibition in Paris (France). In 1942, there were 18 artisans of the village to be awarded with honorary certificates.

Today, Vạn Phúc has more than 1,000 looms in 785 households, three streets with over 100 stores trading in silk fashion. Vạn Phúc silk was exported to many countries of the world.

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