Big Group: Ha Noi City Tour

Itinerary
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Stop At: One Pillar Pagoda, Ong Ich Khiem St Ngoc Ha, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam

We’ll pick you up at meeting point and take you to visit the Ho Chi Minh Complex, which includes Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum – the final resting place of the beloved national hero, Uncle Ho – and President Ho Chi Minh’s stilt house where he lived off and on from 1958 to 1969. Then, we head to the One Pillar Pagoda, which is actually a group of structures that collectively make up a pagoda built over the water in the middle of a square lake.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Chua Tran Quoc, Thanh Nien, Hanoi 10000 Vietnam

After that, you’ll have a chance to explore the Tran Quoc Pagoda on the shore of West Lake. From there, it’s onto the Temple of literature, which was Vietnam’s first university and is dedicated to Confucius. You have lunch at the restaurant in the Old Quarter.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Hoan Kiem Lake Walking Street, Around Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam

Afterwards, you’ll visit Hoan Kiem Lake - the heart and soul of Hanoi.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Bat Trang Conservation, 67 Giang Cao Bat Trang, Gia Lam, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam

OPTION 1: except Mondays
You’ll stop in at museum of ethnology. This superb museum showcases the depth of Vietnamese cultural diversity with an astounding collection of 15,000 artifacts gathered from throughout Vietnam. Maps, displays and dioramas are labelled in Vietnamese, French and English. Displays portray a typical village market, the making of comical hats and a Tay shamanic ceremony; videos show the real thing. You can also check out a traditional Black Thai house reconstructed in the museum. There's also a centre for research and conservation where scientists from all over the world study traditional Vietnamese cultures.

OPTION 2: only on Mondays
Depart for Bat Trang ceramic village which is about 20 km away from Ha Noi, this is pottery village with a half- millenary historic development.


Duration: 1 hour