Duong Lam Ancient Village
Laterite-walled village of centuries-old homes, birthplace of two Vietnamese kings who defied foreign rule.
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This guide to Duong Lam Ancient Village outside Hanoi follows the laterite-walled lanes that raised two rebel leaders a century apart: Phung Hung, who rose against Tang rule and briefly governed on his own terms, and Ngo Quyen, the general behind the ambush that ended a Chinese invasion fleet on the Bach Dang River. You'll walk past ochre walls dug from local ponds, houses pushing four hundred years old, and a banyan tree planted more than three centuries ago near the village gate. It traces how two boys from this same small patch of countryside each turned into a king.
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