Thanh Ha pottery village – 18 mins

Opening hours: 8:00 – 17:30 every day

Reference ticket price: Adults are 35,000 VND/person and children are 15,000 VND/person

Located next to the peaceful Thu Bon River, Thanh Hà Pottery Village is about 3km west of Hoi An city center. With more than 500 years of establishment and development, this place possesses a rustic beauty rarely found anywhere else and contains many rare ancient features. This pottery village is an excellent choice for those who love to experience the ancient culture of our country.

In particular, visitors also have the opportunity to create pottery by themselves from the most basic steps.

Clay is the primary raw material to create unique ceramic products here. Coming to this pottery village, you will see firsthand the process of shaping ceramic from gorgeous clay by talented artisans. From the rudimentary clay blocks, through the hands of experienced artisans in Thanh Hà pottery village, they will transform them into a product full of art.

In addition, here every year on January 10, people will worship with the wish that the craft ancestors will bless a peaceful and prosperous new year. So, if lucky enough, visitors will experience more exciting activities at the pottery village on this occasion, such as witnessing the procession of the ancestor’s palanquin or participating in fun folk games such as sharpening the wood and cooking rice pot.

The park has two separate zones; one is an upside-down building known as a place to keep ceramic artifacts from ancient times. The other area is the upside-down building, which is also the place to exhibit and introduce new ceramic products.

The most outstanding highlight of this ceramic zone is that they are like a miniature world when possessing hundreds of beautiful architectural works entirely sculpted in ceramic such as the leaning tower of Pisa, the White House, Kim Tu Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral, One Pillar Pagoda, Turtle Tower, Uncle Ho’s mausoleum