Handetour team has just re-inspectedLe Mat Snake Village inViet Hung Commune, Long Bien District, Hanoi Capital, Vietnam and added it on HANDETOUR’s Vietnam tourswith 02 options: The first option is a hafday tour from Hanoi with lunch or dinner at Snake Restaurant and the second option is a short tour with dinner after trips from Halong Bay - Both options include the visits to Temple, Pagoda, Snake Feeding Fam and Snake Food.
Le Mat name appeared before the time of Le Canh Hung (1740 -1786), but it was just acknowledged as a commune level administrative unit from the beginning of Nguyen dynasty (20th century). After many times changing place name, in the late of 1997, Le Mat became one of three hamlets (Le Mat, Truong Lam, Kim Quan), now belongs to Viet Hung commune, Long Bien District, Hanoi Capital.
Le Mat Snake Village Festival usually takes place from the 20th day to the 24th day of the third lunar month, with the main festive day on the 23rd, something special like snake catching, snake breeding, and snake venom curing. Also, a cup of snake wine with three or five snakes inside may be given to festival goers.
The most speciality of Le Mat Village is Snake Food with 10-12 dishes served in every restaurant including blood and bile with rice wine, snake soup, snake away fat, snake meat, snake meat fry soft, rolling fry …
According to Mr. Luan, chairman of Viet Hung Commune:There are 24 village families registered as Snake Feeding Fam Families and only 04 big ones. There are 11 restaurantswith national standards in serving domestic and international tourists. It also has very local markets and big supermarkets like BigC, Savico Megamall to meet with tourists’ shopping needs, especially Vietnamese and Asian tourists.
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