Bat Trang ceramic village

Bat Trang ceramics 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 ceramics, v.v.v. Here they keep their lines of communication career by his father, leaving the products are unique and sophisticated feature set separately. Ceramic products are well known far from near, exported to many parts of the world. Indochina tours Cambodia
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.

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. cruise on mekong river

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.