Hanoi Trip Overview
Get an overview of Vietnamese history, culture, and lifestyle on this classic city tour of Hanoi. A private guide takes you sightseeing to the capital’s major sites, including the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, and Hanoi’s Old Quarter. Your personalized full-day tour includes round-trip hotel transport by private vehicle.
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Duration: 7 to 8 hours
Starts: Hanoi, Vietnam
Trip Category: Tours & Sightseeing >> City Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Hanoi, Vietnam, Vietnam
Get an overview of Vietnamese history, culture, and lifestyle on this classic city tour of Hanoi. A private guide takes you sightseeing to the capital’s major sites, including the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, and Hanoi’s Old Quarter. Your personalized full-day tour includes round-trip hotel transport by private vehicle.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, 2 Hung Vuong Ba Dinh Square, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Complex, an important place of pilgrimage. A traffic-free area of botanical gardens, monuments, memorials and pagodas, it’s usually crowded with groups of all ages, from all over the nation, who has come to pay their respects. Within the complex you can visit Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum , Ba Dinh Square, the Presidential Palace, Ho Chi Minh’s Stilt House, Ho Chi Minh Museum
Closed by, the famous One Pillar Pagoda which is built of wood on a single stone pillar 1.25 m in diameter. It is designed to resemble a lotus blossom, which is a Buddhist symbol of purity, since a lotus blossoms in a muddy pond.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Temple of Literature & National University, Quoc Tu Giam Street Dong Da District, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
After that, continue to visit the Temple of Literature (Vietnamese name is Quoc Tu Giam) – The Vietnam’s first University, which was built in 1070 in honor of Confucius, his followers and Chu Van An, a moral figure in Vietnamese education.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Nguyen Van Huyen Street Cau Giay, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
Following an included lunch, you are transferred to visit Vietnam Museum of Ethnology. Almost no foreign tourists to Hanoi refuse to visit the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, where they can look into a vivid picture of the miniaturized Vietnamese ethnic community’s life
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Hoa Lo Prison, 1 Hoa Lo St Hoan Kiem, Hanoi 10000 Vietnam
Continue to visit the Hilton Jail or Hoa Lo prison, a prison used by the French colonists in Vietnam for political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam for prisoners of war during the Vietnam War when it was sarcastically known to American prisoners of war as the “Hanoi Hilton”.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Old Quarter, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
Take a cyclo (rickshaw) ride through Hanoi’s Old Quarter, a network of narrow alleys and shop-houses also known as ’36 Streets.’ It’s a wonderful place to absorb local life and peruse items, from fabrics to crafts to exotic medicines.
Duration: 1 hour
