Hoi An: Vietnamese Foldable Lantern Making Class

Learn how to make a foldable lantern and hear about this important part of Hoi An's cultural heritage from your instructor. Bring home your very own handmade souvenir.

Experience

Highlights

1. Make Your Own Vietnamese Lantern: Bring luck and happiness.
2. Fun Activity: Suitable for singles, couples, friends, and families.
3. Use Diverse Materials: Learn to use silk and bamboo.
4. Creative Shapes: Bend bamboo stakes into your favorite shapes.
5. Foldable Lantern: Learn how to fold the lantern to fit in your bag.

   

Full Description

Immerse yourself in Vietnamese culture with a lantern-making class in Hoi An. Choose from full and express options. In the full activity, make the lanterns completely from scratch. In the express activity, start with the pre-made bamboo structure and choose 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 houses 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, handmade souvenir from your visit to Hoi An.

Includes

1. Welcome drink of traditional Vietnamese tea
2. Lantern-making class with an instructor and translator
3. Your own foldable lantern to take home
4. A secret gift made by the host
5. Hotel pickup and drop-off

Meeting Point

Look for a workshop with "Lantern Making Class" next to the main door, decorated with lots of lanterns outside. Located just a 10-minute walk from Hoi An Old Town.