Van Phuc - Travel & Tourism Guide Van Phuc - Viêt Nam

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Close to Hanoi, the silk village of Van Phuc is, along with the ceramics village of Bat Trang, one of the most visited by travellers, with its boutiques and handicraft workshops. In the dinh, the communal house, villagers honor La Thi Nga (7th-8th centuries), patron saint of weavers and Van Phuc's tutelary genius. It was also in Van Phuc that President Hô Chi Minh drafted his call to resistance in 1946, on the eve of the first Indochina war. Don't be fooled by the first, commercial gateway. The real village begins after...