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
✔️Give one free tour from us. It is optional. You can choose one of those free tour ( Old quarter, Food tour, French quarter )
Additional Info
Duration: 2 days
Starts: Hoàn Kiếm, Vietnam
Trip Category: Outdoor Activities >> 4WD, ATV & Off-Road 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
✔️Give one free tour from us. It is optional. You can choose one of those free tour ( Old quarter, Food tour, French quarter )
Itinerary
Day 1: Full day city tour
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: 5 hours
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 minute
Stop At: West Lake, Tây Hồ, Hanoi, 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 hours
Stop At: Temple of Literature & National University, Quoc Tu Giam Street Dong Da District, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
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: Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Nguyen Van Huyen Street Cau Giay, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
Option 2: apply on Sun, Tue, Thu & Sat
10:00: Visit Vietnam Museum of Ethnology
This is the most recent yet probably the largest and undoubtedly the most interesting Museums in Ha Noi and Viet Nam. There are both indoors and outdoors section, while the in – housed exhibition is particularly infomative, the outdoors display and activities make the museum stand out from the rest. There are a number of houses modeling after the traditional architecture of ethnic minorities, especially those who live in Northern and Central highlands.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Meals included:
• Lunch
Accommodation included: No accomodation
Day 2: Free tour – optional
Stop At: Old Quarter, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
Go around, sightseeing, take photos, and shopping
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Dong Xuan Market, Dong Xuan and Hang Chieu Sts., Hanoi 10000 Vietnam
Do bargain here and have gift for your friends and your family
Duration: 1 hour
Pass By: Long Bien Bridge, Tran Nhat Duat Street, Hanoi Vietnam
You can come to visit here and take photos when you join the old quarter tour
Stop At: Hanoia Ma May, 87 Ma May Street Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
In the free old quarter tour, you can visit this ancient house to know more about Hanoian lifestyle
Duration: 30 minutes
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
