Mysterious Cham Culture Tour
Drive to Phan Rang, Stop at Cana Beach, Visit Bau Truc Porcelain village, My Nghiep village and Poklong Giarai Temples & Porome Temples ( Lunch )
Drive 120km from Nhatrang to Phan Rang, Ninh thuan province, a destination of Cham Minority People Culture and for beach vacationers with white sandy Cana Beaches & resorts.
Start from Nhatrang at 7 am and take the No.1 National Road to the South to Phan Rang City, a main land of “Cham” people Culture & Civilization over several centuries. Don’t forget to visit Cham Ponagar Temples in Nhatrang first to have the whole full picture of Cham Culture from Nhatrang to Phan Rang after the tour. Stop at Cana Beach on the way for Lunch, relax or swim for a while before going straight away to famous Cham Village of Bau Truc Porcelain products. You will enjoy all kinds of the handy-made & well-known porcelain products done by Cham People and can buy some of them for souvenirs. If time is allowed, we call at one more Charm village “My Nghiep” to visit the hand-made silk products, weaved by Charm People also. On the way back, you will go on visiting Poklong Giarai Temples and Porome Temples before transferring back to Nhatrang in the afternoon around 5.00 pm. End of tour
Bau Truc is a famous pottery craft village of the Cham ethnic group. It has existed since the reign of Cham King Po Klong Garai (1151-1205) and is considered one of the oldest pottery villages in Southeast Asia.
Villagers take soft sand from the Quao River and mix with clay to create the basic material with high adhesion. The techniques they use have been passed down from generation to generation. All stages, from drying and soaking the materials in water, mixing sand and kneading the soil, etc, to creating styles and decorating designs before firing, are hand-manipulated. The technique to create the materials by the villagers remarkably distinguishes itself from others. Instead of using the potter’s wheel to shape the products, Bau Truc craftsmen place their product on a chair or a table, go around it and make the shape. The ceramic making art is only with an anvil, some simple tools, moulds and their skillful hands. The patterns are free decorated, sophisticated and especially drawn by simple things as tree branches, shells, etc. Besides, craftsmen also use traditional and unique techniques to colour the pottery items in mysterious and old styles.