Hoi An runs bamboo bikes

Vo Tan Tan, a craftsman in Cam Thanh village in suburban Hoi An, will introduce a bamboo bicycle tour next month.

The first-ever tour in Hoi An, the tour members will go through the village on prototypes of bicycles made mostly of bamboo and produced by the village craftsmen.

Cam Thanh is the first village in Viet Nam to produce bamboo bicycles with traditional processing methods.

The village is known as a crafts village and is a favoured eco-tourism destination that has 30ha of nipa palm forests and handicrafts made of palm and bamboo.

Hoi An aims to promote cycling as part of a plan to build the first eco-city in Viet Nam.