Tho Ha village is one of the most famous tourist destinations in Bac Giang. Tho Ha Village is in Bac Giang Province, 50km north of Hanoi. The village used to specialise in making pottery wares. In the 1980s, the villagers abandoned the old tradition and adopted new ones: making rice noodles, rice crackers… Vietnam is fast advancing forward yet visiting Tho Ha you can find remains of the past blended into the present shaping up something traditional…
From Hanoi you can travel to Tho Ha for half a day following the old Route 1A to Bac Ninh City, crossing the old citadel at Bac Ninh and heading to the Nhu Nguyet River. A short boat ride across the river will bring you right to Tho Ha Village on the other side.
The village itself is a maze of alleys and small roads most of which are about 1 metre-wide. Walking through the village, you’ll walk by and under bamboo trellises which locals put rice noodle on to get sun-dried. The villagers will be at work in their home or outside of the village and the whole village is quiet most of the time. The houses here are reminders of the village occupation once upon a time: roofs of red tiles, walls made of broken pottery vases and earthen sarcophagus… You’ll be more likely to be carried back in time.
