08.00 get together at our bike store meeting point – 38c, lane 209, Doi Can street – view location

Bike, helmet preparation to start bike trip Chu Dong Tu temple.

Depart to Chu Dong Tu and Tien Dung temple at Van Giang, Hung Yen – the temple is beautifully located at the Red River bank surrounded by fluvial and rich cultivation farms.

The legend has it that Da Trach Temple was built on the former high platform of Chu Dong Tu and Princess Tien Dungs castle and citadel, after they returned to the Heaven. Once a year, villagers in traditional ao dais and sarongs make their way to the temple of Chu Dong Tu to make offerings of incense, flowers and candles. They say prayers for the soul of the famous fisherman and for their friends and family who risk their lives by fishing out at sea. It is an interesting local spectacle and if youre in the area, definitely worth a visit.

On the way back, we visit  Bat Trang pottery village which translates as bowl-making village became famous for its bricks and for its bat dan, a type of bowl popular in the Red River Delta. Bat Trang was so well known that its bricks. The villages ceramics were finished with five types of glaze: iron brown, blue and white, ivory, moss green, and cracked. The most typical designs, and the ones that are most popular to this day, involve a combination of white and deep cobalt blue.

Back to the meeting point and discharge things.

Have a drink and back to your hotel by taxi.

Meals: Lunch
Destinations: Chu Dong Tu and Tien Dzung temple (Hung Yen), Bat Trang pottery village (Hanoi)
Accomplished: 80 km