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( November 14, 2009)

Dong Ky is well-known for its craft of making things of wood with high artistic sophistication. The whole village, in the day-time is full of sawing and chiselling sounds. The main articles made there are furniture of high quality: tables, chairs, cupboards and ornate beds.

To make these products, many kinds of precious wood are used: talauma for big furniture to support a great weight; Sindora wood, iron wood (Erythophloum) and Cliukrusiu tabiHuris for the objects whose surface must be polished; for smaller furniture to be finely carved and decorated, the manglietia is preferred, and so on.

There are not only traditional models such as cupboards, ornate beds, etc. but also modern ones: drawing-room furniture, wardrobes, etc. As to the decoration, everything is artistically carved and also inlaid with mother-of-pearl of seven colours. The motifs are numerous: grass, flowers, trees, leaves, butterflies, bees or human figures, river and mountain and so on. You will surely be surprised by the highly artistic products of modest ordinary

    • Dong Ky village tour 1 day

Impress travel team will pick up you at hotel at 8.30 AM, and driving to the east of Hanoi, crossing Red river delta to Bat Trang village ( 17 km from center of Hanoi).

Bat Trang village is ceramic and pottery village, where we will visit the way Vietnamese handicraftsman show their work, After 1.5 hours visiting here we will drive to Do Ky village in Bac Ninh Province to visit famous wooden caving furniture.

We wander around village to see and learn how craftsman to made the exotic furniture with their skillful hands.

Then we drive back to Hanoi for lunch, After lunch we will drive to the west of Hanoi ( 30 km) for visiting Chuong weaving conical hat village and Van Phuc silk village. We are coming back to hotel in Hanoi at 6.30 PM.

Included services: Transfer, tour guide, breakfast, lunch, entrance fee

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