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Bat Trang pottery village bicycle tour with cooking class

vietnamcycling — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:04:54 +0000

On the left bank of Hong river and about 10 km from Hanoi in East (in Gia Lam District, Hanoi), there situated a pottery village, which is the most famous and long-standing pottery village in Vietnam for its name of Bat Trang.

Biking from your hotel to get on Long Bien Bridge which is the famous one from French war. We bike through the busy town before riding bike on the dyke of Red River.

About 5km riding, we will arrive Long Bien Market where we meet our Chef there and wandering around to the Market for find out the Vietnamese market with showing what you cook with which is kind of herb together with. Then riding back to the Sung Khanh village with the famous pagoda from 16th century, short trip visiting pagoda then walking with Luong Duc Dung Chef (a well-known from Sunway hotel four stars in Hanoi) to the his house. He will explain the ingredience of food then cook with those, of course, you will enjoy whatever courses you cook that is for your lunch in his garden together with the nature music from bird.

After chatting with Dzung Chef, we keep riding to the pottery village by your bike around 6km. We will visit the oldest pottery Bat Trang village by foot and stop for visiting any local crafts men or that is the chance you can photo or chat with crafts men for discover the way they make the pottery by hands.

More hours you can make your own pottery in the craftsmen workshop with a few minutes waiting you can take your own made away. They will wrap by bubble paper and you can take by hand very easily.

05PM: biking back to home with the traffic jam and explore how Vietnamese biking or riding after finish the working time. Another option that is we will arrange the car or bus for our group back to hotel for relax.

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vietnamcycling — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:47:53 +0000

Sapa Full Day Cycling

vietnamcycling — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:51:21 +0000

You will cycle into the Sapa valley and experience the fantastic scenery of mountains and rice paddy fields along the way. You will visit the Black Hmong village of Su Pan and then continue mostly downhill to the Tay village of Ban Ho, where you will enjoy lunch and have time to explore the village and take a swim in the river. After lunch you will be able to take a walk up to Red Dao village of Nam Toong. Here you have time to visit the local school and a Red Dao house. After exploring Nam Toong you walk back to Ban Ho where your car is waiting to take you back to Sapa.

Nha Trang Full Day Cycling Tour

vietnamcycling — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:38:55 +0000

8: 30 AM our local guide will meet us at the hotel, leaving the city’s noisy be hide for traveling to lush and peaceful villages of Vietnamese. On the way there we will stop to see pagoda of Long Son, once here from hill top we can see could be biggest Buddha statue and over view of Nha Trang city.

Arrival to village of Ngoc Hiep a round 10 PM, we first visit a traditional old house, here is also bike transition spot, set the bikes out start enjoy slowly riding on villages lanes, cross rice paddy. This is great chance to learn how the rice cultivated is and chat with very friendly local villagers. Not only that our cycling routine lead us to visit some handy craft families such us making bread, sleeping mats, conical hat, incense families.

Leaving those families we continue paddling to restaurant of Bach Hy, this located on river bank, where we enjoy local food for lunch. We then cycle back to the old House; ends easy cycling tour here, get on the car to head back to city. Our tour concluded at the hotel around 5 PM.