Yên Đức is a rural commune () and village of

Đông Triều Đông Triều is a provincial city (Vietnam), city of Quảng Ninh Province in the Northeast (Vietnam), north-eastern region of Vietnam. As of 2015 the district had a population of 173,141. The district covers an area of 397.2155 km². The ...

town in Quảng Ninh Province,

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. The village is about 60 km to the west of

Hạ Long Bay Hạ Long Bay or Halong Bay (, ) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and popular travel destination in Quảng Ninh province, Vietnam. The name Hạ Long means "descending dragon". Administratively, the bay belongs to Hạ Long city, Cẩm Phả c ...

on the way from and to

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. Yen Duc Village is a typical Vietnamese

agricultural Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created f ...

village in terms of culture and traditions. The village is surrounded by mountains which are mirrored in the

Kinh Thầy River Kinh Thầy River is a river of Hải Dương Province in northeast Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a populati ...

. Also, similar to other typical traditional Vietnamese villages in the North of Vietnam, Yen Duc Village has

golden rice Golden rice is a variety of rice ('' Oryza sativa'') produced through genetic engineering to biosynthesize beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A, in the edible parts of the rice. It is intended to produce a fortified food to be grown and ...

fields in the harvest time, many lakes and ponds and colorful gardens, especially the ranges of

areca ''Areca'' is a genus of 51 species of Arecaceae, palms in the family (biology), family Arecaceae, found in humid tropical forests from the islands of the Philippines and Malaysia, India, and across Southeast Asia to Melanesia. The generic name ' ...

trees in the sunshine. Yen Duc has many historical monuments and an ancient

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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.

References

*http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/travel/97177/tours-of-villages-attract-foreign-tourists.html Communes of Quảng Ninh province Populated places in Quảng Ninh province {{QuangNinh-geo-stub