The Temple of the Hung Kings and the ancient pottery village of Bat Trang.
There was a very lucky consequence of this years Tet, Thanh's village was close to the temples of the Hung Kings. The Hung Kings are a mystery, wrapped in an enigma with a heavy sauce of mysticism and mythology. First it is not exactly clear how many there were, some say there were 18 of them but then they cover some 2,000 years at least so there is room for growth. There are no written scources or references until the 1200CE. The stories coming down through time by word of mouth have all kinds of legends and mythologies. What I know is that the Viet peoples came out of the mountains onto the Red River valley and flatlands sometime around 3,000 BCE. They brought dry rice farming and bronze and copper forging. By 2,500 BCE they were wet rice farming and had become very good at bronze forging and working the metal. They made these incredible bronze drums that were covered in amazing figures and patterns. This period is known as the Dong Son period and lasted from 2,500BCE to 1,000 ...