Den dau Street Hue

Some Hue shopping streets are the ideal place for young boys watching the beautiful young girls passing by shop to shop and dreaming of a possible romance! Den dau Street, Hue is like that kind of hub where along with lots of stalls and shop-front houses you can also come across the local guys sitting idly in coffee shops and watching passers by.

Silk paintings are Hue's major shopping piece and a vital part of Vietnamese society as well. Silk painting has been done for ages in Vietnam. Artists draw on a white silk canvas with the use of several colors that recreate the colors of nature. On Den dau Street also, you will find those paintings being sold in many a stalls.

Besides, Den dau Street houses lots of shops which display various gift items, presentations, fashionable clothes, shoes, various types of garments and other things which you would like to buy. Moreover, these shops sell what are the most special things in Vietnam, so that a foreign tourist can buy those and take back home.

The motives of the paintings which are the special items in this country refer to natural landscapes and landscapes of everyday life in Vietnam. Just have a look at the display by the shops at Den dau Street. Topics of those pictures comprise scenes from the harvest season, rowing a boat, the cyclo trip, going to the market and historical buildings such as the pagodas and citadel.

The landscapes synthesize the loveliness of the country with limited but commanding and exact strokes. The colors communicate tranquility as they merge the blue and the yellow hues with the white background of the canvas. Be sure to purchase at least one of those pictures which will give you an essence of Vietnamese art of which not only Hue, but also Vietnam is famous for years.

You can buy the silk paintings framed by two bamboo rolls that will make it easy to hang. Besides, from the stalls at Den dau Street calligraphic artwork is another item which can be bought and generally travelers purchase. Calligraphic work can be found on silk but also on lacquer, stone and wood.