Immerse yourself in Vietnamese culture with a lantern-making class. Select from full and express options. In the full activity, make the lanterns completely from scratch. In the express activity, start with the bamboo structure of the lanterns already made and begin by choosing your lantern fabric.Begin your experience with some herbal tea and traditional music. Hear about the history of Hoi An bamboo silk lanterns from your host and how the local people believe that hanging lanterns in front of their house brings luck, happiness, and wealth.Create lanterns shaped like lotuses, triangles, garlic, UFOs, or diamonds and choose your own silk style and color with guidance from your instructor. This unique activity can be enjoyed by the entire family, even by kids as young as 3 years old.

Once completed, these lanterns are easy to fold, carry, or put in your luggage, so you can take home an original, hand-made souvenir from your visit to Hoi An.

Express Class: 1.5 Hour

- Step 1 :Select silk

- Step 2 :Apply glue to 4 stakes. Let dry until tacky.

- Step 3 :Set silk on stakes and carefully stretch silk. Once silk is correctly positioned, press the silk onto the glue.

- Step 4 :Repeat silk application until the lantern is covered.

- Step 5 :Cover the top and base of the hanger with strips of silk.

- Step 6 :Select a tassel for the base of the lantern.

- Step 7 : Practice how to open and close your  lantern and stowed in your luggage to be brought home

*Drawing on lanterns will incur an additional charge of 200,000 VND

Tour included

- Welcome drink of traditional Vietnamese tea.

- Lantern-making class with instructor and translator.

- Your own foldable lantern to take home.

- A secret gift made by the host.

Tour excluded

Hotel pickup and drop-off.