Yên Đức

Yên Đức is a rural commune (xã) and village of Đông Triều town in Quảng Ninh Province, Vietnam[1].

Yên Đức
Rural commune
Country Vietnam
ProvinceQuảng Ninh
TownĐông Triều
Time zoneUTC+07:00 (Indochina Time)

The village is about 60 km to the west of Hạ Long Bay on the way from and to Hanoi. Yen Duc Village is a typical Vietnamese agricultural village in terms of culture and traditions. The village is surrounded by mountains which are mirrored in the Kinh Thầy River. Also, similar to other typical traditional Vietnamese villages in the North of Vietnam, Yen Duc Village has golden rice fields in the harvest time, many lakes and ponds and colorful gardens, especially the ranges of areca trees in the sunshine.

Yen Duc has many historical monuments and an ancient pagoda named Canh Huong which contains cultural and historical values dated back to Ly and Tran dynasty. In the village, all the alley roads have stone walls. The community-based tourism project has been developed in Yen Duc village since 2011. Visitors can visit Yen Duc village to see water puppet show.[2]

References
  1. "Administrative subdivisions". To find information at reference, go to row 22, then row 205, and it is listed on row 07129: General Statistics Office of Vietnam.CS1 maint: location (link)
  2. Claire Boobbyer (15 January 2016). "Cruise along Vietnam's Red River Delta". The Independent. Retrieved 16 January 2016. ...at Yen Duc, we watched water puppets, made from the jackfruit tree, enacting rural scenes of rice growing and harvesting on a liquid stage.

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