Half Day Explore the Red River Delta - have lunch at ancient house

Half Day Explore the Red River Delta - have lunch at ancient house

Red River Delta is one of the cradles of Vietnamese culture. With thousand years of history, it has been keeping a lot of “treasures”. This trip takes you to outstanding cultural sites to help you understand more about this mythical land by visiting handicraft villages, bonsai farms and an ancient house.

Pick up at hotel and you head to outskirt of Hanoi. Get out of the city center, you start driving on the dyke of the Red River. On the way, you will stop at Bat Trang Ceramic Village - it is well known throughout Vietnam for its beautiful ceramics. The products become quite commercial now but the old part of the village is still worth of visiting. You can go to visit the family workshop where the whole processed of making ceramic will be explained to you carefully.

Leave the village, continue driving on the dyke, you will pass by the area where the locals expertise in cultivating bonsai and kumquat for new year decorating. It is interesting to get to know about how people prepare for Tet (lunar new year) from house decoration to the foods.

Take a visit an ancient house. Meet the hospitable host, have cup of tea and listen to his introduction of 300 years old house, it is full of antiques. His grandfather was a Mandarin; his father was a Confucian scholar so the stories about his family will be very interesting for you. Beside his ancient house, he also loves to tell you about his beautiful garden and how his grandfather applied Fengshui in choosing the location and constructing their house. You will be invited to have lunch prepared by his wife, a lady with “happy- ending face”. Enjoy the meal and you will get to know more about the philosophy behind the cuisine of the Northern Vietnam.

Farewell to the warm hearted host, you will transfer back to Hanoi, end of the trip.