vietnamnet – The two century old Cao Thon craft village in the northern province of Hung Yen is one of the largest incense-making villages in Vietnam.

At the village located about 50km southeast of Hanoi, the days leading up to the Hung Kings Festival are a non-stop work effort to churn out incense sticks for the festivities throughout the country.

Each household in the village can turn out twenty-to-thirty thousand sticks per day, using a time-tested mix of sawdust, cinnamon, sandalwood and sunshine.