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Biking to Bat Trang pottery village with cooking class

michael | October 29, 2009 | no comments

Bat Trang Pottery Village

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.