QUANG PHU CAU INCENSE VILLAGE HANOI CITY TOUR
07.30 – 08.00: Get picked up by our guide from the hotels in Hanoi Old Quarter, then start for 1,5 hour drive journey to the craft villages
09.30 – Visit Quang Phu Cau village, which has been producing incense for more than 100 years. Take a walk to the center of the village and see how locals make incense at an artisanal, family scale. Learn the process of how incense is made from scratch and more about the lives of manual workers.
Meet a family who specializes in dyeing incense sticks and admire the outdoor showroom with thousands of colorful bundles of incense. Here, our guide will take the best photos for you
10.15 – Leave for Chuong Village, which has been well-known for the craft of conical hat-making for over 300 years. Meet the local artisans and observe how conical hats are made. You will have a chance to draw by yourself on hats,, then take them home as souvenirs
12.45: Have lunch at a local restaurant.
13.30-13.45: Continue to visit Temple of Literature – the first university of Vietnam, established in the 11 century. Today, the Temple of Literature has become a popular destination of Travel Hanoi, the place of awarding merit to students who have excellent study achievement.
15.00: Leave for Hoa Lo Prison Museum, which was originally used by the French colonists in Indochina for political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam for U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War. During this later period, it was known to American POWs as the “Hanoi Hilton
16.00 -16.30: Get dropped off at your hotel – End of Quang Phu Cau Incense Village Hanoi City Tour
