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Weekend, return to Duong Lam ancient village to "live slowly", leisurely on the sloping brick roads

Báo Quốc TếBáo Quốc Tế19/03/2025

Behind the gate of Mong Phu village, Duong Lam, a simple and familiar Doai village opens up with bamboo stalls selling rustic food, lam tea, guava juice, peanut candy... becoming an ideal place to rest after a hard week of work...

Weekend, return to Duong Lam ancient village to 'live slowly', leisurely on the slanted brick roads

About 45km from the center of Hanoi , Duong Lam is one of the ancient villages with a long history. The village consists of 5 villages: Mong Phu, Cam Thinh, Dong Sang, Doai Giap and Cam Lam with a natural land area of ​​about 800.25 hectares and a population of more than 8,000 people.

Weekend, return to Duong Lam ancient village to 'live slowly', leisurely on the slanted brick roads

Duong Lam is known by affectionate names such as ancient Vietnamese village, Duong Lam laterite ancient village or the land of "one class, two kings".

Weekend, return to Duong Lam ancient village to 'live slowly', leisurely on the slanted brick roads

Through the ups and downs of time, Duong Lam ancient village still retains intact the unique cultural beauty of the pure agricultural lifestyle and the soul of the ancient village people, along with a system of historical relics that have been ranked and many intangible heritages, documentary heritages that demonstrate the depth of the locality.

Weekend, return to Duong Lam ancient village to 'live slowly', leisurely on the slanted brick roads

Currently, Duong Lam has 20 ranked relics, including 8 national relics, 12 city-level relics, nearly 100 ancient houses over 100 years old, nearly 1,000 traditional Northern rural houses and gates and alleys with unique architectural and artistic values ​​intact.

Weekend, return to Duong Lam ancient village to 'live slowly', leisurely on the sloping brick roads

Duong Lam is considered a “museum of agricultural lifestyle”, not only because of the landscape space of an ancient village with banyan trees, wells, communal house yard, ancient roofs, laterite walls… but also because in Duong Lam, the purely agricultural lifestyle still exists clearly.

Weekend, go to Duong Lam to 'live slowly'

Besides rice and vegetable growing, people here also preserve a lot of folk knowledge in side jobs such as: Making Lam tea, stuffed candy, peanut candy, sesame candy, rice cake, green tea cake, sticky rice sauce...

Weekend, go to Duong Lam to 'live slowly'

Just entering the gate of the 300-year-old house of Mr. Ha Huu The's family (Sui hamlet, Mong Phu village, Duong Lam commune), the aroma of soy sauce jars spread throughout the space. With only ingredients made by Vietnamese farmers such as yellow sticky rice, soybeans, green beans, mold, bean water, earthenware jars... can make the famous soy sauce of Doai region - a specialty that contributes to promoting tourism , an indispensable hometown gift for every tourist when coming here.

Weekend, go to Duong Lam to 'live slowly'

Also in this ancient house are peanut cakes eaten with Duong Lam sauce, which are produced and consumed by tourists.

Weekend, go to Duong Lam to 'live slowly'

The traditional dishes of the ancient village are not only simple gifts from the countryside when visiting the land of Doai, but these products also become a source of enrichment, a great potential for tourism of the land of Duong Lam today.

Weekend, go to Duong Lam to 'live slowly'

What is special about Duong Lam is that the structures from houses, walls to wells, gates... are mostly made of laterite and are still quite intact to this day, despite being stained by the sediments of time.

Weekend, go to Duong Lam to 'live slowly'

The gates bearing the marks of time still exist in Duong Lam.

Weekend, go to Duong Lam to 'live slowly'

Following the path in the village, visitors will see the sophistication and meticulousness of previous generations, expressed through the slanted brick roads, the ancient wooden gates decorated with trellises of morning glory and vibrant vines. In the harvest season, the village roads smell of straw, the large yards are dyed yellow by rice and corn...

Weekend, go to Duong Lam to 'live slowly'

In Mong Phu, each well bears the name of the hamlet. The wells all have very clean water for daily use. However, nowadays, people have their own clean water system, do not use water from the communal wells and they are still kept intact.

Weekend, go to Duong Lam to 'live slowly'

Not only is it a village that preserves unique ancient architecture, coming to Duong Lam, you also have the opportunity to enjoy famous specialties such as grilled chicken, braised fish, pickled eggplant, water spinach, crab soup...

Weekend, go to Duong Lam to 'live slowly'

The first time she came to Duong Lam with her mother, Ha Bao Han, 16 years old, a student at Ly Thai To High School, Hanoi, was very happy and loved this ancient village. Ha Bao Han experienced drawing on the ancient tile roof at Doai Creative the image of a girl wearing a yếm dress sitting by a lotus pond - a very familiar image of Vietnamese women in the past.

Weekend, go to Duong Lam to 'live slowly'

Coming to Duong Lam, tourists can visit many places that still carry strong traditions such as Mong Phu Village Gate, Mong Phu Village Communal House, Giang Van Minh Temple... There are also many ancient wells here. Like communal houses, wells are considered the soul of many Vietnamese villages.

Weekend, go to Duong Lam to 'live slowly'

Duong Lam currently chooses to develop community tourism with sustainable elements and is increasingly proving that this is an effective method of tourism development, not only bringing many economic benefits but also contributing to preserving and promoting the unique cultural values ​​of the locality.

Weekend, go to Duong Lam to 'live slowly'

Duong Lam ancient village is suitable to visit at any time of the year. However, if you want to see all the beauty of the ancient Vietnamese countryside, you should choose to go during the rice harvest season around May, June or the festival season in the first lunar month every year.

Weekend, go to Duong Lam to 'live slowly'

And with the advantage of a countryside with rich heritage values ​​and a dense system of relics, a tourist destination known to many visitors, along with rustic dishes and the simplicity of the people, Duong Lam is not only a cultural space with value in terms of architecture, history, customs, habits... but also a suitable place for "slow living" tourism, temporarily leaving the city every weekend.


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