Full Day Hanoi City Tour with Lunch and Limousine

Our driver and guide will pick up guests at the hotel lobby where you stay around Hanoi Old Quarter Area. Please ready everything before departure time.

First Stop at Tran Quoc Pagoda – the oldest pagoga located on Golden Fish IsLand in West Lake. Tran Quoc Pagoda is located on a small islet of West Lake (Tay Ho District, Hanoi). Visitors can go inside the pagoda through its main gate on No. 46, Thanh Nien Street. Tran Quoc Pagoda worships Amitabha Buddha, Shakyamuni Buddha, and Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. Additionally, there is an altar dedicated to Guan Yu, Guan Ping, Zhou Shang, and Anathapindika.

Next stop visit Ho Chi Minh complex, you have a chance to see the embalmed body of Ho Chi Minh then walk around the garden to see 2 houses where he lived & worked from 1954 to 1969. Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum is one of the most significant constructions in Vietnam. Visiting this place will help you enhance your knowledge of Vietnamese history and enjoy a meaningful experience on your vacation. Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum has long been considered the first place to come for first-time travelers to Hanoi, as this place has a reputation for its great cultural and historical values.

Then visit One Pillar Pagoda where worships the Goddess of Mercy which is the most unique pagoda in the world. The One Pillar Pagoda was originally built by the Emperor Ly Thai Tong who ruled from 1028 to 1054. According to the annals, the heirless emperor dreamed that he met Quan The Am Bo Tat, the Goddess of Mercy, who handed him a male child. Ly Thai Tong then married a young peasant girl and had a son and heir by her. As a way of expressing his gratitude for this event, he constructed a pagoda here in 1049.

We continute visit Vietnam Ethnology Museum to learn about the culture of 54 ethnic groups living in the whole country of Vietnam.Vietnam Ethnology Museum Hanoi offers an insight into the 54 different ethnic groups of Vietnam in an effort to preserve cultural heritage and promote sociology-cultural diversity within the country. Visitors are welcome to browse some of the vast research on offer at this public museum which is also a centre for ethnographic research.Then we stop at local restaurant for having lunch with Vietnamese cuisines.
Special Note : we will visit Women Museum instead of Ethnology Museum closed on Mondays.

After lunch, continue to visit Temple of Literature – the first university of Vietnam, established in the 11 century. The Temple of Literature is the first university complex in Vietnam. Not only is it a cultural and historical relic, it is also where many students come to pray for luck in their upcoming exams and studies. As the first university of Vietnam, the Temple of Literature is a popular cultural and historical relic in every Hanoi travel tour. Visiting this place, you will be enchanted by its grandeur and serenity. Here, you will have a deeper understanding of Vietnam’s history of development from the early days.

Leave for Hoa Lo Prison which originally used by the French colonists in Indochina for political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam for U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War. During this later period, it was known to American POWs as the "Hanoi Hilton. Located at address 1 Hoa Lo Street, Tran Hung Dao Ward, Hoan Kiem District (Ha Noi), Hoa Lo Prison Relic was known before as "hell on earth" right in the heart of Ha Noi. Coming to Hoa Lo Prison Relic, visitors will have a chance to experience the images recreating the scene where political prisoners were tortured.
After Hoa Lo Prison, our driver and guide will take you back to hotel/place in Hanoi Old Quarter Area between 16h15 to 16h30 PM. Tour finishes.