Hoàn Kiếm Trip Overview
Discover the unique and captivating charms of Hanoi in a full day tour from the historical sites of the city to its cultural and entertaining side. Hanoi will find its way to your heart.
The tour is split into a morning and afternoon schedule, with a tasty lunch in between!
At 8am, you are invited to visit the Ho Chi Minh Complex including a tour of the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Ho Chi Minh Museum and One Pillar Pagoda. The visits continue with the Temple of Literature, the first University of Vietnam dated from the 16th century. The morning will end with a tour of Hanoi’s Art Museum.
After a good satisfying lunch in one of Hanoi’s famous restaurants, we will take you on a walk tour through 1000-year-old Hanoi Old Quarter until we reach the final attraction of the day, a Hanoian tradition, the Water Puppet Unique show at 4:00pm.
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Duration: 9 hours
Starts: Hoàn Kiếm, Vietnam
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Discover the unique and captivating charms of Hanoi in a full day tour from the historical sites of the city to its cultural and entertaining side. Hanoi will find its way to your heart.
The tour is split into a morning and afternoon schedule, with a tasty lunch in between!
At 8am, you are invited to visit the Ho Chi Minh Complex including a tour of the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Ho Chi Minh Museum and One Pillar Pagoda. The visits continue with the Temple of Literature, the first University of Vietnam dated from the 16th century. The morning will end with a tour of Hanoi’s Art Museum.
After a good satisfying lunch in one of Hanoi’s famous restaurants, we will take you on a walk tour through 1000-year-old Hanoi Old Quarter until we reach the final attraction of the day, a Hanoian tradition, the Water Puppet Unique show at 4:00pm.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, 2 Hung Vuong Ba Dinh Square, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Ba Dinh Square is one of the most visited attractions in Hanoi. It is the final resting place of Ho Chi Minh, the most iconic and popular leader of Vietnam, known to his people as ‘Uncle Ho’. His body is preserved here in a glass case at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in central Hanoi.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Ho Chi Minh Museum, 19 Ngoc Ha Street Ba Dinh District, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
One of the most resourceful museums in Hanoi. The whole museum describes Ho Chi Minh’s life, with 8 chronological topics from childhood to the national hero he became.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: One Pillar Pagoda, Ong Ich Khiem St, Ngoc Ha, Ba Dinh District Ngoc Ha, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
Rising from one pillar in the centre of an elegantly square shaped lotus pond, The One Pillar Pagoda is said to represent a lotus flower growing up out of the water.
Built between the years of 1028 and1054 during the reign of Emperor Ly Thai Tong of the Ly Dynasty, the One Pillar Pagoda is one of Vietnam’s most iconic temples.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Temple of Literature & National University, Quoc Tu Giam Street Dong Da District, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
The Temple of Literature is often cited as one of Hanoi’s most picturesque tourist attractions. Originally built as a university in 1070 dedicated to Confucius, scholars and sages, the building is extremely well preserved and is a superb example of traditional-style Vietnamese architecture.
This ancient site offers a lake of literature, the Well of Heavenly Clarity, turtle steles, pavilions, courtyards and passageways that were once used by royalty. Visiting the Temple of Literature you will discover historic buildings from the Ly and Tran dynasties in a revered place that has seen thousands of doctors’ graduate in what has now become a memorial to education and literature.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Fine Arts Museum (Bao Tang My Thuat), 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc St, Hanoi 10000 Vietnam
The excellent Fine Arts Museum is housed in two buildings that were once the French Ministry of Information. Treasures abound, including ancient Champa stone carvings and some astonishing effigies of Quan Am, the thousand-eyed, thousand-armed Goddess of Compassion, worshipped across the Far East. Look out for the lacquered statues of Buddhist monks from the Tay Son dynasty and the collection of contemporary art and folk-naive paintings.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
Stop At: Old Quarter, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
Hanoi in the North of the country and is one of the country’s top tourist hot spots. It offers French-colonial architecture, a rich food culture and a long history (the city celebrated its millennium in 2010.) The most well known and important districts in Hanoi are Ba Dinh District (aka the French Quarter) where the government offices are located and Hoan Kiem District (aka the Old Quarter) which is considered the city’s business hub and main tourist destination.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
Stop At: Thang Long Water Puppet, 57B Dinh Tien Hoang – Hoan Kiem – Ha Noi, Hanoi 10000 Vietnam
The world-famous Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre in Hanoi has its roots in an art form that dates back to the 11th century. The tradition of water puppet theatre stems from a time when rice paddy fields were flooded and villagers would make entertainment by standing in the waist-deep water with the puppets performing over the water.
Duration: 1 hour
