ITINERARY:
12:00 ~ 12:30: Get picked up from Old Quarter by your tour guide
13:30: Make a quick visit to Chuong village, which has been well-known for the craft of
conical hat for over 300 years. We are going to meet a local artisan, quick observe how conical hats are being made.
14:00: We depart for the Quang Phu Cau village, which has been producing incense for more than 100 years. We will take a walk to the center of the village, see how people are making incense at family scale.
14:20: We are going to stop at a family who specializes in dyeing the incense stick, visit their drying yard and take some cool photos of the incense bundles.
15:20: Say goodbye to the incense-dyeing family, we will be having a factory tour at the biggest incense factory in the town. You will have a chance to see how incense is made from scratch by visiting every production section of the factory, as well as learn more about life of manual worker in the countryside. It is also a chance for you to shop some incense for souvenir at the place it is produced.
16:00: Time to go back to the city center. First place to be dropped off will be the Hanoi Train Street. If you do not want to be dropped off there, please stay inside the bus.
17:00 ~ 17:30: Get drop off at your hotel in the Old Quarter. Tour finished.