With Vietlook Travel Visiting Vietnamese countryside, visitors can admire the peaceful beauty, with the hospitable and gentle people. Besides, visitors can also visit traditional craft villages such as: Quang Phu Cau incense village, Ha Thai craft village, Chuong conical hat village… visitors can learn more about Vietnamese culture. Below is the detailed content for your reference.
Guide to choosing places to visit when you first come to Vietnam, and want to choose places that are Vietnamese villages, admire the beauty and learn about traditional craft villages.
Choose the right place you love
Vietnam has many attractive villages to explore. Each village will have its own characteristics of the local people. However, you need to choose a destination that suits your interests, budget and time. So if you come to Vietlook Travel, we will suggest you to choose the destination you like.
Find information and activities at the place you want to visit
After choosing a destination, you need to find out information about the place you want to visit. Information may include culture, history, regional specialties, activities and outstanding events. You can consult consultants or social networking sites before arriving.
Finding out activities and information when visiting the village will help your trip, and you will save the best moments for yourself.
Make a detailed plan
You need to make a detailed plan for your trip, including the itinerary, places to visit, means of transportation, personal food you bring along with the budget for your trip.
If you love to admire the peaceful countryside, visit the Vietnamese countryside from here you will visit the culture of cultural and artistic events, chat with skilled craftsmen. In particular, you can also draw pictures, learn to cook with the locals.
Prepare necessary clothes and items before visiting a Vietnamese village.
Before going, you should prepare your personal documents, maps and necessary documents. You should also prepare clothes suitable for the location and weather in Vietnam to have the most enjoyable trip.
Enjoy the trip
When visiting the villages, in addition to walking and sightseeing or cycling, you can also enjoy the rich cuisine, experience cooking with the locals, and relax in the Vietnamese countryside.
Top Traditional Craft Villages in Vietnam You Should Visit
Each craft village will bring visitors its own beauty, each culture is unique to each region, let’s explore the following craft villages.
Tra Que Vegetable Village – Hoi An
Up to now, Tra Que Vegetable Village has been around for more than 300 years. Coming here, you will encounter vast vegetable fields, with many different types of vegetables. If you are a lover of peaceful spaces, Tra Que Vegetable Village is the destination for you.
The vegetable village is one of the prominent destinations, with a green space that visitors can visit and take beautiful pictures. Tra Que is no longer a traditional vegetable village, but this place also brings a peaceful scene that has helped attract many visitors to experience.
The ideal time to visit is from February to April and from August to December every year. This is the time when the weather in the Central region and Hoi An – Quang Nam is cool, dry, the vegetables are freshest and greenest of the year. The space is fresh, cool and green.
Quang Phu Cau Incense Village
As one of the famous incense villages, from Hanoi to get to the incense village, visitors can take a coach or bus while admiring the poetic scenery.
Coming to Quang Phu Cau Incense Village, visitors can not only visit but also experience making colorful incense bundles, listen to thrilling stories, and freely check in next to the incense bundles to record the beautiful scenery and visit the traditional incense making method with the ladies, mothers… from the rudimentary stages to creating unique products.
Bat Trang Pottery Village
A destination chosen by many tourists, and one of the traditional craft villages of Vietnamese culture is one of the famous traditional craft villages in Vietnam.
Coming here, visitors will encounter craftsmen specializing in producing high-class handmade ceramic products. The designs are very diverse and eye-catching.
Visitors will experience pottery making with the locals here, the pottery village is over 200 years old, Van Van ancient house is an architectural masterpiece with ceramic motifs, blue-glazed teapots, dragon-shaped vases, and pottery molds dating back to the 15th century….
Bat Trang communal house is a place to worship Thanh Hoang and is also the place to hold many different festivals throughout the year.
Quynh Son Community Tourism Village – Lang Son
Lang Son is famous for its beautiful natural landscape, surrounded by high rocky mountains, clear streams, and is a dream destination for many tourists. The most prominent of which is the community tourism village.
In addition, Lang Son is also a typical historical and cultural heritage and the commune’s scenic spots include Quynh Son communal house, an ancient temple worshiping King Quy Minh, with traditional stilt houses of the Bac Son Tay ethnic group.
Coming here, visitors can experience traditional community life by eating, resting and participating in agricultural production activities with local people in simple stilt houses where the Tay people mainly live.
In addition, visitors coming here on January 12 and 13 can also join the Long Tong festival (going down to the fields) which is held with traditional rituals to pray for a good harvest, and many folk games such as Then singing and Tan Dan dancing are also typical cultural features in the daily life of local people.
In addition, when coming to Quynh Son, visitors can enjoy the culinary culture with typical traditional dishes here such as: Black Chung cake, purple sticky rice, Chinese sausage, red marinated meat,…
Unique activities during a tour Vietnamese craft villages and countryside are opportunities to experience the local lifestyle, culture, history and cuisine. Here are some experiences you should try at least once in your life.
Visiting and experiencing daily life with local people is also one of the unique experiences that Vietlook Travel wants to accompany you to explore when you have the opportunity to visit Vietnam.
Experiencing with local people such as: cutting grass, harvesting rice, picking fruit or herding cattle is a simple life that many foreign tourists when coming to Vietnam are interested in.
Experiencing traditional craft villages
Vietnam has many traditional craft villages, such as Bat Trang pottery village, Vu Dai fishing village and Ninh Van stone village, Quang Phu incense village, conical hat village… You can visit and learn how to make traditional handicrafts. Each craft village will bring visitors a unique experience.
Enjoy the local cuisine
A tour of the Vietnamese countryside will give you a complete experience and enjoy the local cuisine. You can join a cooking class or have dinner with a local family to enjoy traditional dishes and chat with the locals.
In each region and tour of the Vietnamese countryside, visitors will experience unique specialties. Most of the dishes are delicious and attractive and have the distinct flavors of each region.
Participate in unique cultural activities of each locality such as festivals, and exchange diverse cultural activities, depending on the time, visitors will be able to participate in different festival activities, and depending on each locality, visitors will have different experiences.
The most unique and impressive activities that visitors will participate in are festivals, folk games, or experience picking fruits, and learn how to weave, mold green rice, make incense to produce colorful incense bundles, or paint paintings at Ha Thai lacquer village.
This is an opportunity for visitors to experience local culture and learn about the unique life and culture of the Vietnamese people.
Accompanying Vietlook Travel will take you to fully explore the beauty of Vietnam and bring visitors unique experiences. Each craft village and famous landscape will bring visitors their own experiences and be the most unforgettable memories for visitors.