MAKING LANTERN TOUR

Location: Hoi An
Duration: 5 hours
Route: Hoi An – Hoi An
**Information
• Duration:
Option 1: 3 hours
Option 2: 5 hours
• Pick-up/drop-off location: Your hotel in Hoi An
• Tour type: Private Tour
• Note : The children under 4 years old are not allowed to join the tour.

**Hightlights
• Enjoy mulberry juice as welcome drink, wander around lush garden
• Learn about the history of lanterns, then make your own with the supervision of an expert
• Discover the silk making process, the life cycle of silkworms in action
• Be shown how cocoons are transformed into silk thread and how the silk is treated and refined to become ready for clothing.
• Stop in local family, a vegetable village, for a delicious and local lunch for option 2

**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. 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. Our car 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.

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.

Say goodbye to the handicraft house, ride to the herb village for lunch. Take a relax with fresh atmosphere and back to the hotel.
End the tour !

**Inclusion
Option 1:
• Transfer
• English speaking guide
• craftsman’s labor
• material for making the lantern
• bottled water

Option 2:
• Bicycle rental
• English speaking guide
• craftsman’s labor
• material for making the lantern
• bottled water
• Lunch

Price:

	1 pax	2 pax	3 – 4 pax	5 – 6 pax	7  – 10 pax
Option 1	33	20	17	15	10
Option 2	39	37	35	33	31