Hoàn Kiếm Trip Overview
✔️ ✔️ ✔️ HIGHLIGHT ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
✔️ Visit Tran Quoc pagoda and one stilt pagoda – the most ancient pagoda in Vietnam, enjoy breathtaking view and ancient pagoda.
✔️Enjoy a tasty set menu lunch with Vietnamese cuisine at a local restaurant
✔️Exploring history of Vietnam when you visit Ho Chi Minh Complex and Hoa Lo Prison
✔️Learn more about examination culture of Vietnam in the past in The First University of Vietnam
Additional Info
Duration: 12 hours
Starts: Hoàn Kiếm, Vietnam
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội, Vietnam
✔️ ✔️ ✔️ HIGHLIGHT ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
✔️ Visit Tran Quoc pagoda and one stilt pagoda – the most ancient pagoda in Vietnam, enjoy breathtaking view and ancient pagoda.
✔️Enjoy a tasty set menu lunch with Vietnamese cuisine at a local restaurant
✔️Exploring history of Vietnam when you visit Ho Chi Minh Complex and Hoa Lo Prison
✔️Learn more about examination culture of Vietnam in the past in The First University of Vietnam
Itinerary
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Stop At: AZ Local Trip, No.4 12 – 95 Lane Chùa Bộc Street Đống Đa Hanoi City VN 100000, P. Chùa Bộc, Khương Thượng, Đống Đa, Hà Nội, Vietnam
We start from our office :
Office 1 : Az Local Trip Head Office
Office 2 : Az Local Trip no 91 C Hang Ma street
Stop At: Old Quarter, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
07:30 – 08:00: Tour guide from AZ Local Trip picks up you and your group from your hotel or at the confirmed meeting point in Hanoi Old Quarter. Please be ready before at that time
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Chua Tran Quoc, Thanh Nien, Hanoi 10000 Vietnam
08:15: Visit Tran Quoc Pagoda is located on an island east of West Lake (Tay Ho District), with 1500-year history, which is considered to be the oldest in Thang Long-Hanoi. It was the Buddhist center of Thang Long citadel in the Ly and Tran dynasties. With its historical and architectural values, Tran Quoc pagoda is famous for its sacred Buddha land, which attracts many Buddhists and visitors to Vietnam.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: West Lake, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
Passing the West Lake – enjoy fresh air and take great photos.
Stop At: Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, 2 Hung Vuong Ba Dinh Square, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
09:15 AM: Visitor to Ho Chi Minh complex ( Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, the presidential palace, house on stilts the final resting place of Uncle Ho,where He lived and worked from 1954- 1969).
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Ho Chi Minh’s Stilt House, 1 Bach Thao Alley, Ngoc Ha Ward, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
You will visit the final house of Ho Chi Minh president, know more about his memorable and meaningful stories.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: One Pillar Pagoda, Ong Ich Khiem St, Ngoc Ha, Ba Dinh District Ngoc Ha, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
The final destination in Ho Chi Minh Complex will be the ancient pagoda in the North of Vietnam. Listen about it’s legend, learn about architecture, history and religion.
Stop At: Ho Chi Minh Museum, 19 Ngoc Ha Street Ba Dinh District, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
Pass this place, have photos to say good bye to Ho Chi Minh complex and visit the next places.
Stop At: Authentic Bat Trang, 62 Hang Hom Hoan Kiem, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
Option 1: applied on Mon, Wed, Fri.
You head to Bat Trang pottery village, have lunch at a local restaurant. Then you will sightseeing the village, make pottery by yourself. After that you come back Hanoi
Duration: 3 minutes
Stop At: Temple of Literature & National University, Quoc Tu Giam Street Dong Da District, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
Option 2: applied on Sun, Sat, Tue, Thu.
13:30: After lunch, our guide will pick you up to the first university of Vietnam – Temple of Literature. Being an ancient school of Thang Long and the first university in Vietnam, Temple of Literature is acknowledged as an ancient historical-cultural heritage which gives tourists deeper understanding about Hanoi 1000 years of culture and tradition.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Hoa Lo Prison, 1 Hoa Lo St Hoan Kiem, Hanoi 10000 Vietnam
14:30: Visit Hoa Lo Prison. It were built in 1899. The French kept mainly political prisoners here along with those awaiting sentencing at the nearby Court of Justice,also where American pilots who had been shot down and captured were kept as prisoners of war. The pilots called it, sarcastically, the “Hanoi Hilton.” John McCain was held here at various times during his five and a half years as a POW.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Lake of the Restored Sword (Hoan Kiem Lake), Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
Drive back to Hanoi and drop off at your hotel or the same meeting point inside Old Quarter. Passing the heart of the city and say good bye to our guide and our driver.
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Stop At: Old Quarter, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
After the full – day city tour, you can take a snap and then have a full dinner with street food tour, or the old quarter tour with our student volunteer in the evening or join the next tour immediately. You can choose the time you want to join the tour. Our free guide will pick you up at your hotel ( Hanoi Old Quarter only ). Walk around Hanoi Old Quarter and enjoy Vietnamese street foods.
Duration: 3 hours
Pass By: Dong Xuan Market, Dong Xuan and Hang Chieu Sts., Hanoi 10000 Vietnam
You can pass this market, learn more about lifestyle of Hanoian.
Pass By: Long Bien Bridge, Tran Nhat Duat Street, Hanoi Vietnam
You can walk to Long Bien bridge and take photos here at night if you join the free old quarter tour.
