Hanoi Landmarks, Culture, and Street Food Experience
Meet your tour guide at your hotel at 8:30 AM.
Visit the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, an important place of pilgrimage for the Vietnamese. See Ho Chi Minh's House on Stilts, built in the style of Vietnam's ethnic minorities, and enjoy the surrounding gardens.
Make your way to the One Pillar Pagoda, built in the 11th century out of wood on a single stone pillar resembling a lotus blossom, symbolising purity rising from a sea of sorrow.
Explore the Temple of Literature, a Confucian temple and Vietnam's very first university during its feudal era.
Follow your guide to local restaurants for a street food lunch at 12:30 PM.
Visit the Museum of Ethnology and learn about the fifty-four ethnic groups of Vietnam.
Enter a local boutique coffee shop, where you may taste local beverages such as egg coffee.
Understand Vietnamese farmers' history and local life through a water puppet show at Bong Sen Theatre at 5:30 PM.
Your local guide will then order a cyclo for you so you can ride around the Hanoi Old Quarter and Hanoi Opera House on a quick forty-minute tour.
Conclude your tour with a drop-off at your hotel.
