Bat Trang – Dong Ho – Dong Ky Traditional Village Tour – 1 Day

Tour Highlights

• Immerse yourself in the charm of three unique villages – Bat Trang, Dong Ho, and Dong Ky – each renowned for its specialized trade.
• Witness the age-old craft of pottery-making in Bat Trang, famous for its ceramics and earthenware pottery.
• Explore Dong Ho Village, home to colorful and iconic folk paintings and engravings that tell traditional stories.
• Experience the art of wooden furniture adorned with intricate mother-of-pearl inlays in Dong Ky Village.
• Get hands-on as you try your hand at pottery-making and bring home your creations as souvenirs.

This one-day Hanoi tour allows you to visit all these three villages specialized by their peace trade and products. Take the chance to go deep inside and unlock the mysteries helping them preserve and develop the ancestors’ tradition.

General Information

Duration: 1 Day
Date: Upon request
Start/End: Hanoi/ Hanoi
Active level: Easy
Tour Route: Hanoi – Bat Trang Village – Dong Ho Village – Dong Ky Village – Hanoi
Tour category: Hanoi tour packages

Bat Trang Pottery Village is about 20 km southeast of Hanoi, on the Red River shore. This village has specialized for centuries in the manufacture of ceramics and earthenware pottery. They have been famous in Asia for a very long time.

Dong Ho Village is located only 40 km west of Hanoi. Fifteen years ago, there was not much left in Dong Ho. Only two families worked in respect of the ancestral tradition. UNESCO has been quick to look at these colorful, popular and representative prints of Tonkin. This village is famous for its folk paintings and engravings on a traditional theme.

Dong Ky Village is 25 km northwest of Hanoi. Formerly, it was “the famous village of firecrackers” of North Vietnam. This village was famous for its competition of the biggest firecracker. Now that the production of firecrackers has been banned since 1996 for security reasons, it has given way to the manufacture of beautiful traditional furniture in precious wood inlaid with mother-of-pearl.

Experience our Service with

• Guides: Hand-pick from our best guides, mature, acknowledgeable, all are licensed, great senses of humor
• Drivers: Friendly, responsible, reliable with many years of driving experience, door-to-door services
• Vehicles: Comfortable, spacious, air-conditioned, big windows

Full Itinerary

In The Morning

We will leave Hanoi around 8:30 for the drive to Bat Trang village, located on the left bank of the Red River. In here, we discover the manufacture of products, have an opportunity to make our own potteries and get beautiful potteries at relatively low prices.

Then, we drive to Dong Ho Village, where we discover the Dong Ho painting technic. They engraved the images on wooden boards rotproof modest size. Some large prints require more than twenty boards assembled together. The printing was done on papers of different colors, obtained from bamboo, mulberry bark or rhamnonuron (Do paper).

In The Afternoon

After lunch at a local restaurant, we move to Dong Ky Village, where you can see traditional Vietnamese wooden furniture decorated with pearl inlays. Around 17:00, we return to Hanoi. End of our services.