Quang Phu Cau Incense Village
Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital and the country's cultural center for thousands of years, is home to ancient, historically significant temples and neighborhoods. Charming craft villages, such as Bat Trang Pottery Village and Ha Dong Silk Village, give visitors to Hanoi an opportunity to see something other than historic architecture. In addition to the above-mentioned craft villages, you absolutely must stop by Quang Phu Cau Incense Village, where the ancient art of incense production has been preserved for well over a century.
Where is Quang Phu Cau Incense Village?
Quang Phu Cau Incense Village is about 35 km from the center of the capital. This place is in the Quang Phu Cau commune in the Ung Hoa district. For more than a hundred years, people have been making traditional incense sticks here.
What to expect in Quang Phu Cau Incense Village?
When people go to the Quang Phu Cau incense village, they can learn about how incense sticks have been made for centuries and take a lot of unique check-in photos. From the moment they stepped into the incense village, visitors have seen how busy the people there are.
As you drive through the village, you'll see a lot of vehicles, both big and small, coming and going to sell incense. Somewhere, there are big courtyards with bunches of red incense hanging from the ceiling like giant flowers. People here use their yards, common yards, and empty lots to dry incense, which makes for a very impressive sight.
In this village of incense, the bundles of sticks are big, the heads are close together, and the legs are spread out like flowers in bloom. Yellow and red are lucky colors in the East, so Quang Phu Cau Incense Village is very beautiful and stands out. So, for many years, photographers from all over the world have come to this village to take pictures. Many great prizes have been given to works about this village.
Because the scenery is so beautiful and unique, Quang Phu Cau incense village has become a traditional craft village in Hanoi that a lot of people from both inside and outside of Vietnam visit often. When people come here, they can walk around the villages to look at the big "flowers" and take lots of beautiful pictures.
Note:
- Visit Quang Phu Cau incense village in the summer or on sunny days, when the intense golden sunshine will highlight the red incense bundles, for the greatest photographs.
- Along the road leading to the settlement, there are numerous incense "flowers" of various hues. There is a fee of 100,000 VND for each person for taking check-in photos with them. In addition, you should tip the locals if you want the incense bundles rearranged into the desired shapes, as this is a relatively tough task.
