Group tour – Hanoi City Explore

Morning:

8.00- 8.15: Get picked up by our friendly guide and start to explore Hanoi City

• Tran Quoc Pagoda located on Golden Fish IsLand in West Lake It is the oldest pagoda in Ha Noi built in the 6th century.
• 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. Then visit One Pillar Pagoda where worships the Goddess of Mercy – It is the most unique pagoda in the world. Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum is closed on Mondays and Fridays and also from 15 June – 15 Aug for maintenance but visitors can take pictures outside of Mausoleum and walk around that area
• Visit Vietnam Ethnology Museum to learn about the culture of 54 ethnic groups living in the whole country of Vietnam. This museum is widely acknowledged as the best in the country and has an extensive display dedicated to Vietnam’s 54 Ethnic minority peoples. As well as the comprehensive array of exhibits inside, there are also traditional tribal houses reconstructed within the ground. The Museum will be closed on Monday, thus we will replace by Women Museum instead.

Note: Should dress modestly by covering from shoulders to knees when visiting Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, temples, pagodas…

Lunch at 12:30

Afternoon:

• Temple of Literature – the first university of Vietnam, established in the 11th century. Originally built as a temple to Confucius, this is the site of Vietnam’s first University dating back to 1070. Inside are the stone steles mounted on the backs of turtles, inscribed with names of Vietnam best scholars. The temple highlights the importance that Vietnamese society placed then and now on education.
• Hoa Lo Prison Museum 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”

Tour finishes. Back to hotel around 17:00