About the Duong Lam ancient village
The ancient village of Duong Lam, about 50km from Hanoi, is one of the best destination in Vietnam. With the characteristics of architecture and art of an ancient village of the Red River Delta, the village of Duong Lam is the third famous place (behind the Old Quarter and Hoi An old town) in terms of scale as well as artistic value.
As a tourist destination outside the city of Hanoi, Duong Lam is one of the ancient villages of Vietnamese people dating over 300 years old. The ancient village of Duong Lam is attractive for ancient red tiles, brick streets, beehive walls, wells, patios, … With the architecture bringing many cultures of the Vietnamese people, this place promises to bring visitors who take a Hanoi one Day Tour unforgettable experience when knowing about an ancient culture of Vietnam. Moreover, this is also the land of two Kings, with two temples of Phung Hung king and Ngo Quyen king.
Architecture of the Duong Lam ancient village
Today, the ancient village of Duong Lam still retains the basic features of a Vietnamese village with the village gate, banyan tree, river wharf, temple ground, wells, fields, hills, temples…
The village gate located in Mong Phu village, facing southeast, is a two-floors house located on the way to the village. Next to this are the Banyan tree more than 300 years, water wharf, lotus pond … creating a rare intact landscape.
From the gate of the village, on the road paved clean, walking between the beehive dark yellow walls makes the visitors feel the warmth, peace of the village.
The streets are built in the form of fish bone with many small lanes and the Mong Phu temple in the Central area. This structure also creates a large space in the center of the village, where cultural exchanges, traditional festivals take place on holidays, Tet … With this structure, the inhabitants of the village also have safe living ambiance.
Duong Lam ancient village has a total of 956 ancient houses, located in Dong Sang, Mong Phu, and Cam Thinh villages. There are many houses built from a long time, from 1649, 1703, 1850 … were built with traditional materials such as beehive bricks, bamboo, clay, husk, sawdust, …
The house is usually built with a model of 5 or 7 rooms, attached to the house is a yard, garden, kitchen, wells, cages, room divider, mounds of straw, gate.
In addition, the village of Duong Lam also has a system of shrines, temples, pagodas, ancient wells located in a lively and rich landscape environment, that has formed an interesting landmark for the land Son Tay and Hanoi.
Specialties of Duong Lam
Tourists who come to Duong Lam should not forget the special rustic food here.
Ga mia (chicken)
This is a precious commodity, expressed for affluence and the rich in every family, so previously this is the “specialty for the King”. Only on the Tet holidays or village festival, special days, the villagers make chicken for worship ancestry. This chicken is not as rare as it used to be, but it is one of the high-end agricultural products, which is favored for its delicious taste. Chicken is characterized by small feet, golden feathers, so when coming to Duong Lam, visitors will often be introduced this chicken in the lunch here.
Banh te
When taking a Hanoi food tours you will find hard to find this delicious food, but in Duong Lam, you can easily enjoy this unique food. Banh te of Duong Lam has different characteristics compared to other regions. The cake of other places is wrapped in banana leaves but here is wrapped with the la dong. In some places, people mix the glutinous rice flour with rice flour for fragrant cakes but in Duong Lam, they use only rice flour as exactly the name of the cake. The buns here have the fragrance of the la dong and rustic taste.
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