Bat Trang pottery village

Bat Trang Pottery Village is located along the Red River in Gia Lam District, Hanoi suburb. Bat Trang means The Big Field, the lands reserved for professionals. Bat Trang name is formed from the Le, which is the integration between 5
clan famous pottery village of Bat Bo Thanh country with land Ming Nguyen family in Trang. Five large family including Chen, Wang, Nguyen, Le, Pham met and decided to take a number of artists, potters and children of displaced families migrated towards the village of Thang Long industrial land finding. They stop at the white mound 72 Ming Trang village.Today the village of Bat Trang Ceramic Pottery specializes in the production of many different capabilities from: living supplies, worship, fine art ceramic products, etc. Here they keep their lines of profession by his father retransmit, makes products are featured and sophisticated features separately. Ceramic products are well known far from near, exported to many parts of the world.

The following article will share travel experiences Bat Trang Village Tourism from reality, make sure the article will help a lot to plan outings Around Your Hanoi.

Go to Bat Trang ceramics village like?

Bus 47 goes Bat Trang

• Bus: is probably the most convenient and cheapest. From the city's point of Hanoi you take the bus to Long Bien transit station, then catch the car 47 go to Bat Trang . Cavalier sitting in the car and to the village of pottery.
• Motorcycles or other personal means: you cross the bridge or bridge Chuong Duong Vinh Tuy, Thanh Tri bridge and then turn right going along the Red River dike, when experiencing warning signs, the Bat Trang pottery village is coming. Very easy going.
• River Road: Weekend tours are Red River by river passing through the village of pottery in Bat Trang, Chu Dong Tu Temple. The price of this tour around 350k - 400k / guests. You clearly asked whether passing schedule Bat Trang are not offline.

What to eat in Bat Trang

Ceramics near market had plenty of shops, you can enjoy Grilled Bun here is pretty good, although there are many other dishes such as fragrant glutinous cake 6000 e / pair, Cassava Cake 5000 e / unit

Bat Trang ceramics village tourism

If taking the bus, you will walk away from the beginning of the village, passing the sale Ceramics, going into the next village ceramics markets. If motorcyclists shot straight into the market, you Pottery, then the service on 1 clay pottery, you play there, after finishing ceramic molding would have to wait for drying. During that time you leave the car there, please send thanks and went around the village and visit the market.

In addition to walking around the village, you can choose the form of buffalo ride, cost around 150k - 200k / vehicles carrying about 10 people. Often this goes a lot of foreign guests. Currently fewer passengers did not know there are services are not anymore. Buffalo vehicles will take visitors to go around the village.

Squeezing play pottery

Squeezing play Ceramics

There are many families offer this service. This is how you play and learn how to make pottery and processes. Gameplay is quite simple: the landlord give you one huge clods, moisture 1 bit, give you one turntable, then you put the clods between the turntable and the local visual delight that land. Most of you will make the cup, do dishes, do the usual utensils round.If you're handy, you can squeeze the animal shapes.After molding is done, you move on to the drying stage, takes about 30 minutes, during this time you can go out or lunch. Your next step to paint, decorate products. And finally the workers will paint ball outside to keep the product is more durable over time. The cost for each product around VND30,000 - VND50,000.

Bat Trang Market

Full Market sells a variety of items, divided into small stalls selling all sorts of items displayed crafts related to ceramics, from the high-end dishes booths, decorations beautiful fine arts until worshiping items, miniatures rockery until the souvenirs, cups and dishes popular dishes. If you wish to purchase on the market should not be bought out, the price may be more expensive than one bit.

Ceramics family

There are plenty of family pottery village on the way from the beginning till the market. You can look tilted and on 1 of them. When visiting these families you can ask them more about the process of making ceramics, history, or simply watch them do it.

Bat Trang ceramics village family

Family Village is located next to the river (Red River), where the tourists go to Bat Trang River route will stop here and walk into the village. From the market place you ask for directions Dinh Lang people will show you.

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Minh Hai Resort

Before newly opened, this can be considered as 1 point weekend fun for children and students. But the past few years, the service and the facility should go down then most travelers little here. If you go to large corporations, there should be a decent place for lunch, clean, they can contact the place to eat here. At least there is still the scenery and spacious restaurant welcomes guests.

House Van Van

Van Van at the end of the village houses, with roofs covered with greenery. In the more than 400 items on display ancient ceramics from the 15th to the 19th century by the Van Van Tran Ngoc Lam, members UNESCO Center for Conservation Research Vietnam antiques, built in 2002. "Van Van mean that fresh clouds converge. It kept the product of the village, mostly ceramics of Bat Trang "

Schedule refer go to Bat Trang

8h00 : you concentrate derives Bat Trang travel by motorcycle, or taking the bus to Long Bien transit point, start the car 47 go to Bat Trang.

9h15 : to Bat Trang, if you take the bus, the car and walk down into the village, passing through the market, you visited Dinh Lanh Bat Spill g first, then go back to the village, visiting the pottery family, search Pottery understand manufacturing processes.

10:30 : the you to the area around Market Ceramics, into one service that the ceramic clay and play here. When waiting for the product dried then go to lunch.

12h30 : Lunch is finished, the paint for the product.

13h00 : visit the market and buy as a gift.

14h00 : the program can end.

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Note the Bat Trang

• Shopping in the markets you should bargain, as well as grocery shopping alone. Check goods before leaving the shop, because there may be another for errors, poor quality goods.
• Go back in the markets should be careful, because many owners furnished, ceramics are easy wife, accidentally broke the Temple was money.
• If buying large items, bulky you should ask shop owners on home deliveries, avoiding broken toys, breakdowns in transportation process
• If you plan to go shopping, you should not have to buy the last to hold, entangled, go play the point.