Tho Ha Handicraft Village Tour Making Rice Crackers; Local Market
The village is geographically isolated, and a result, it offers a unique glimpse into rural life in northern part of Vietnam.
Once, it was famous with Gom Sanh (pottery without glaze fired with dry grass). Then the products here faced with compettion by products from other places in Vietnam and China as well.
Villagers of Tho Ha turned into making rice paper and raising pigs, and thus pottery job was gradually abandoned, coming to an end of traditional pottery produce.
A trip is a great chance to feel the peace out of bustling cities, to visit traditional Communal House, wooden old houses, learn of making of rice paper to how see rice paper is created.
You experience the daily life of people here by tasting a very normal, but unique local food here that you can find nowhere else in Vietnam.
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Group Size (10pax - 15pax)
Pickup included
What's included in Tho Ha Handicraft Village Tour Making Rice Crackers; Local Market
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
Hanoi Opera HousePass-by Only
8:00 am Tour guide and car from Paradise Indochina Travel come to pick you up at your hotels then go to Tho Ha village (in case you do not have a hotel address or do not want to have hotel pickup. Then please go here Hanoi Opera House to meet our guide and driver). On the way, the bus cross by rice fields, vegetable farms and it will be a good chance shot countryside pictures, farmers with water buffalo
Tho Ha Village
09:30 Arrive the local ferry, board on to cross the river to reach Tho Ha village. You walk around to visit a small, but very typical market of Northern Vietnam. You soon have an overview of the culture after a short time here, seeing people, tasting some local special foods. 09:30 Visit families and learn more about their culture, with their daily works such as rice making paper, rice wine,… 10:30 A glimpse at Tho Ha Communal House (once familiar with Banian tree, a well, a communal yard). Our tour guide will give brief introduction of the village culture and what the life was in the past. 11:00 Visit a very nice, ancient house of a local which dated back more than 100 years old. Most outside part was refurbished, but the ceiling and decorated wall pictures remain original of nearly 100 years old. This family still keep the original job of rice paper making by hand (most families in the area now making rice paper in an industrial way by using electric machine).
Hanoi Opera HousePass-by Only
After lunch enjoy Vietnamese tea from the host. you get back Hanoi. We will drop you off the same your hotels or morning places. End of the trip.
Inclusions
- Lunch in local restaurant
- Folk music performance
- Bottled water
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- Vietnamese/English speaking guide
- Entrance fee and ferry fee.
- Drinks in lunch time
- Tips/Gratitutes
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Pickup and Dropoff
You can choose to be picked up from a list of locations, or alternatively, have the choice to make your own way to the meeting points
Please arrive at the pick up point 5 minutes before departure time.
Additional Information
This is a private tour so you will not share with others. The tour offers free hotel pickup. In case you do not need the hotel pickup, please go to the meeting point (Hanoi Opera House) to meet our tour guide and driver. If you request airport pickup then go straight to Tho Ha for the tour, then give us information about flight number, arrival time.
Meeting / End Points
- It is localed at Hoa Kiem lake, connecting Ngoc Son temple and Dinh Tien Hoang Street.
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