Highlights
- Immerse yourself in Vietnamese culture with a visit to craft villages
- Learn about the art of conical hat-making from a local artisan
- Discover the process of incense-making in a 100-year-old village
- Visit a lacquer art-making village and see the process firsthand
- Enjoy a home-cooked lunch at a local artisan’s house or riverside restaurant
Description
Start with a pickup from Hanoi’s Old Quarter and head to Chuong, a village that has been well-known for the craft of conical hat-making for over 300 years. Meet your tour guide at the house of a local artisan and observe how conical hats are made.
Depart for the 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 on the artisanal, family scale. Meet a family who specializes in dyeing incense sticks and take in the colorful bundles of incense.
See the next level of incense production with a tour of a nearby factory. Learn how incense is made from scratch and more about the lives of manual workers. Take home memories of your visit with incense souvenirs from the place they’re produced before returning to Hanoi.
Finish your tour with a drop-off at the famous Train Street or at your hotel.
Includes
Pickup and drop-off from Hanoi’s Old Quarter
Guided tour of conical hat-making village
Guided tour of incense-making village
Visit to lacquer art-making village (full day option)
Home cooked lunch (full day option)
Incense souvenirs
Visit to Chuong Village
Visit to Quang Phu Cau Incense Village
Incense making demonstration
01 free conical hat for painting in the hat village and take it home as a personalized souvenir, both half day and full day option includes painting free hat
Some free incense sticks after you made incense sticks yourself
Bottled water
All entrance fees
Professional local tour guide
Hotel pickup and drop-off at your hotel in the Hanoi Old Quarter area
Excludes
Lunch (half-day option)
Personal expenses and anything not mentioned in inclusions
Drinks for lunch
Surcharge for Lunar New Year ( 250.000 vnd / person from 16/02/2026 - 19/02/2026 )
Important Information
- The half-day tour does not include lunch, so eat beforehand or bring snacks.
Option for drop-off at Train Street or hotels.
Easy cancellation
Cancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund
