Pearls Farm

Halong Pearls have been considered as a precious natural gift endowed to countries with the advantage of having a long coastline, like Viet Nam. Therefore, Pearl culture has become a good business for Vietnam and there are two major pearl farms in Halong Bay.The pearl village was established in 1995 by a Japanese organization, after years run by Japanese experts, it was transferred for Vietnamese and now run by A Vietnamese Company.Visiting pearl farm, tourists witness the whole process to make a valuable pearl and expensive jewelry from the first step of growing and harvesting pearl from Halong Bay. Most of them are very surprised by the magical process to create the beautiful jewelry from the skillful hands of artisans. This is really a very interesting visit because not many people understand how the white and bright pearls are created. There are cages growing oysters in the water. Locals have many secret experiences in growing the oysters to have big and round pearls. Tourists can even observe the artisans working on their pearls after they are harvested from the water. They do sophisticated technique with their many specialized tools to create a perfect pearl. All are handmade in very intricate level. When watching the complete pearls in the same size, we cannot recognize the raw pearls when they are in the oysters anymore. 

Pearl farming depends largely on the sea’s environment. A polluted environment always leads to certain failure and other elements should also been taken into consideration like salinity and water depth, when raising different kinds of oysters. Under the right conditions, it takes at least five years before an oyster becomes mature enough to produce a pearl, and the success rate is about 40 percent, only a small percentage are of significant quality to fetch the very high prices. For pearls over 10mm, it might take up to seven or even ten years.

Ceramic village Dong Trieu

During the tour of Ha Long, Quang Ninh province, most of trip also visit Dong Trieu ceramic village. Dong Trieu pottery village with the fledgling history, constructed by Mr. Hoang Ba Huy and nowadays expanding production, it has formed a village with nearly 2,000 employees and artisan pottery. Dong Trieu ceramics requires high calcination at 1300 ° C, so the artist takes a lot of time and effort to research and explore ways of dispensing with the design for dedicated incinerators. Source materials for Dong Trieu ceramic kaolin soil is refractory taken from Tu Lang Commune, Kinh Mon District, and plasticity clay from Truc Thon village, Hai Duong Province. The products of Dong Trieu ceramics series are durable, incredible glaze that made the brand for the village. Tourists come to visit the villages will be witnessing the creation stages of team work artisans, as well as looking to buy products more cheaply there than the market. However, only those who are interested in this job and deep passion to keep the traditional Dong Trieu ceramic village and show up to the world.