Yen Duc Village

Overview

Yen Duc village is located in Dong Trieu district, Quang Ninh province (in the Northeast of Vietnam), 60km away from Halong and 100 km away from Hanoi. Due to its favorable geographical position, Yen Duc village has the advantages to attract tourists to explore the natural beauty and the traditional culture of the locality.

Traditional Vietnamese culture originates from rice-farming agriculture, which is formed and maintained in typical rural villages. Visiting a village with such cultural diversity like Yen Duc is a great opportunity for visitors to learn about farming activities, enjoy the poetic beauty of the countryside, and experience the life as a true farmer.

ABOUT YEN DUC VILLAGE

Charming nature and peaceful village

Coming to Yen Duc village you will be warmly welcomed by verdant rice fields, abundant green canals, ripe fruit gardens and curved tiled roofs of the communal house. The village possesses a rural green clean beauty but still retain the traditional enchantment. Stepping around the neighborhood in Yen Duc, you will see the typical symbols of Vietnamese village such as the banian-tree, the well, and the communal yard. You also feel the rustic charm to see the ponds, gardens, straight lines of areca trees, and flying kites in the wind.

More interesting, when you come to Yen Duc you can also admire the endlessly extending mountains with fanciful names related to rice-farming process such as Canh Mountain (plough), Dong Thoc Mountain (paddy), Thung Mountain (rice mortar), Cat Mountain (safeguard of the paddy), Rat Mountain (mice eat rice). All the scenery from nature allure for tourists.

Unique culture

Besides visiting natural landscapes, visitors also have the opportunity to stay in local houses to learn about the traditional house-building architecture, family traditions, the worship of ancestors, and other community cultural activities such as festivals, folk songs, water puppetry. The villagers will show you their traditional crafts of making fans and brooms. You also have a chance to participate in agricultural activities such as gardening, fruit and vegetable harvesting, weeding, and fishing.

Stay overnight in Yen Duc, you will get an insight into Northern Vietnamese traditional houses with the custom of worshiping ancestors. The typical housing architecture consists of two main blocks, which are made from ironwood with yard and garden in front of the house. Surroundings are fishponds and flower fences creating a relaxing and comfortable place to live and enjoy. Travelers also have more knowledge about Buddha beliefs of the locals when visiting Canh Huong Pagoda and 73 Cave.

THINGS TO DO IN YEN DUC VILLAGE

Not only enjoy the scenery and know about the culture, tourists also have the opportunity to "transform themselves" into real farmers. It is interesting that you will be guided by the local farmers in Yen Duc village to do farm works such as grinding rice, pounding rice, growing plants, harvesting fresh vegetables, catching crabs and fishes. After working hard in the paddy fields, you can enjoy local specialties such as boiled sweet potato, roasted white corn, and green tea in the peaceful countryside scenery of Yen Duc Village.