Passing over the bridge of Chuong Duong and going alongside the winding dike like a soft silk strip, visitors will easily find the pottery village of Bat Trang, a quiet village located hiddenly by the river bank. At this old village, tourists will be able to relaxingly take a walk down the aged-old stone path, exploring its establishement and development of Viet pottery industry and experience being a pottery maker with a very small payment of only 10,000 dongs per person.
Bat Trang pottery village
The young will be certainly lured by the coal erected walls, road corners dotted with fern trees and green moss, pottery drying frames of multi-colours and designs,… Such simple and rusty images have shaped a unforgetable impression and helped visitors possess the most beautiful keepsake pictures.
Particularly, around the outskirt of Bat Trang, within the radius of 5-15 kms, there are sites and historical relics which have long time shaped a thickness of culture, spirits, trade and people; prominent are Kim Lan pottery village, considered to have appeared ahead of Bat Trang; the worship temple of Nguyen Phi Y Lan seen not only as a heritage, but obviously also an institution existing through many dynasties associated with the matriarchy; Giong temple relics (Ophu Dong village) connected to the national tradition of patriotism against invaders.
exodus of visitors gathering at Giong festival
With the existing heritages, Gia Lam is identified as a fertile land for tourism. If its potentials are effectively tapped, it will become a place of attractions. Yet, the present tourism development in Gia Lam is still at the too modest point, just confined to catering small and spontaneous tourism services.
Attractive heritages in Gia Lam prompts tourists and visitors to explore more of its traditions
By Ngoc Tram