The Thanh Ha potters are still working in the same way as their forefathers. With their clever and skilful hands, they turn clay into pretty flower vases, tea pots, piggy banks, wine bottles, water jars, kettles, cooking pots or lovely ornaments of birds, turtles, buffaloes, cats and ducks. Nowadays many old buildings in Hoi An need restoring and the Thanh Ha villagers are the only contractors that can provide standardized bricks, tiles and floor slabs exactly like the ones when the old port town prospered.
Price: Starting from US$ 13 per person ,
twin share
COST PER PERSON IN $
Number of tourists
3 hours programme
1
35++
2
23++
3-5
19++
6-9
16++
10-14
15++
15-19
14++
20 & above
13++
Note: * The above price includes: English and Vietnamese local tour guide, boat trip to visit villages, lunch, and visitors’fee, VAT. * Prices above are exclusive of: travel insurance and expenses not included above - Children under 12 years old: pay half price
- 1 free group leader / tour escort for group of over 15 paying full price
TRIP SUMMARY
In the 16th and 17th century Thanh Ha was a thriving village. It was famous for earthenware that was sold
in many provinces throughout Central Vietnam. It was the Thanh Ha villagers who made the bricks,
tiles and floor slabs for the old buildings in Hoi An and the surrounding areas.
The Thanh Ha potters are still working in the same way as their forefathers. With their clever and skilful
hands, they turn clay into pretty flower vases, tea pots, piggy banks, wine bottles, water jars, kettles,
cooking pots or lovely ornaments of birds, turtles, buffaloes, cats and ducks.
Nowadays many old buildings in Hoi An need restoring and the Thanh Ha villagers are the only
contractors that can provide standardized bricks, tiles and floor slabs exactly like the ones when the
old port town prospered.
3 hour tour programme
09.00: Our local guide will meet you at Hoi An Travel (6 Tran Hung Dao Street), walk through the old streets and then embark on a boat from the bank of the
Thu
Bon
River
. Enjoy the beauty of ancient Hoi An from the river. Continue toThanh Ha pottery village; discover the daily life of the villagers. View the various stages of producing the many kinds of pottery products like: jar, vase, pot, earthen pot, decorative lamps and so on. Continue to visit Kim Bong carpenters’ village, listen to the village’s history and visit the shipbuilding yards, and see the handicrafts and sculptures.
Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant in Hoi An old town. Return to Hoi An Travel where your tour ends.
Kim Bong village Kim Bong village is well known for its carpentry. Most of Hoi An old town’s architecture was made by their ancestors, dating back to the town’s heyday as a commercial port. The technique of the carpenters is exceptional. Their work on the head of columns, rafters, pillars, altars, tables, chairs and beds is masterful and can be appreciated by anyone who sees it. The Kim Bong carpenters still keep their traditional skills alive. Many of them make fishing boats for fishermen all over
Central Vietnam
. They often restore the old buildings in town or make wooden statues and traditional furniture to be sold and exported.
