Making Lantern Tour in Hoi An

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Itinerary

Lantern has become a familiar symbol of Hoi An. Once you visit Hoi An, you can easily see lanterns hung up everywhere in town with colorful colors. Buying a lantern back like a gift is the thing most of people do when visiting Hoi An. How about making a lantern? You can make your own lanterns and give them to your friends, your colleagues, your family. It’s so great, isn’t? Join our making lantern tour in Hoi An and bring your own handmade lanterns back home.

Location: Hoi An
Duration: 5 hours
Route: Hoi An – Hoi An

**Itinerary

Option 1: Making lantern – Visiting silk village
In the morning, our local guide will welcome you at hotel lobby and transfer to village and lantern village by private car/taxi. Here you will have a brief introduction to the history, shape and color of the lantern as well as the many stage of making them. You can make your own lantern and keep it as a souvenir.

Visit around the mulberry gadern, you have chance to discover about the silk making process, life cycle of silkworms, watch silkworms weave their cocoons, how cocoons are transformed into silk thread and how the silk is treated and refined to become ready for clothing.

The tour will be end in silk showroom where you can receive a hands-on tutorial on deciphering between true and synthetic silk. We will drop you off at your hotel.
Option 2: Making lantern – Visiting silk village – Lunch in Tra Que vetegetable village

In the morning, our local guide will meet you at hotel lobby and will ride by bicycle to the home of a craftsman. Here you will have a brief introduction to the history, shape and color of the lantern as well as the many stage of making them. You can make your own lantern and keep it as a souvenir.