As there are a lot of great things to buy in Vietnam, you will be confused to choose. That’s the reason why you should seek for valuable information about the best ones before beginning the journey. These items may be what you need to use when staying in Vietnam for your convenience or gifts you want to buy for your family and friends.
Silk
This is a kind of fabric quite common in Vietnam; it’s made of the silkworm’s cocoons and impressively looks royal. That’s the reason why it used to be chosen as the top products for the Vietnamese nobility and royalty. Nevertheless, it has infiltrated into all classes of the country nowadays; its price is not also too expensive for everyone to buy. It’s easy for tourists to find some boutiques specializing in providing silk in the Vietnamese markets or along some streets of Ho Chi Minh city, so they can select what they like the most for themselves or their families and friends. The price may be around VND70,000-100,000/m, depending on each kind of silk.
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Non la
Non La means the hat made of leaves or the leaf hat. It’s depicted as a circular cone made of different kinds of leaf, such as bamboo, palme, and others. In the past, Vietnamese people consider Non la as the indispensable item in their life; not only that, it’s seen as a cultural symbol of Vietnam. They wear the item for protecting them from the rain and also bringing them the shade when it’s hot. When travelling to the rural areas of Vietnam in your Vietnam package tour, you may wish to get the one at the workshop as a souvenir or in order to avoid the severe sunshine. Relying on the quality, Non la will have different prices from VND10,000 – 100,000.
Hand Embroidery
From the past time until now, Hand Embroidery has been taken into account as a type of traditional handicraft in Vietnam. It’s widely referred to as the art of creating framed silk pictures with embroidering on clothing by hand. What contributes to the unique pictures is sophisticated stitches portraying flowers, animals, trees, and familiar scenes of the Vietnam’s countryside. Just with the conventional techniques of embroidering, Vietnamese artists have produced incredible artworks. This souvenir costs from VND500,000-2,000,000 and even above.
Lacquer ware
Lacquer products become outstanding and catch people’s eyes by its style of utilizing resin from a sort of tree called Son. It’s known that the traditional handicraft has undergone 20 stages of developments and given out diverse works, such dishes, vases, pots, bowls, and other sophisticated designs. The most unique one is lacquer paintings, so it should also be among things to buy in Vietnam.
Clothes
Of course, there is an abundant selection of clothes in most big markets of Vietnam, so you will freely and pleasurably buy anything suitable for you. However, it’s advised that Ao Dai is one of the great things to buy in Vietnam; here is a traditional Vietnamese costume with the extremely impressive design, which will help flatter curves in your body.
Coffee
It’s not hard to enjoy a cup of Vietnamese coffee at the quite cheap price as it’s available at many restaurants and cafes at every corner of Ho Chi Minh city. Instead of adding sugar to the cup, you are served with the one mixed with milk. If you would like to prepare this drink by yourself, just need to buy some special tools along with a pack of raw coffee in the coffee shops; “Trung Nguyen” is a reputable brand recommended to you as you are looking for Vietnamese coffee.
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