1 Day Ha Noi City Tour

Hanoi is the capital and also an important political, cultural and tourist center of Vietnam. Hanoi has a long history, many famous cultural and architectural works, historical relics, etc. It is also one of the most attractive destinations for domestic and foreign tourists in Vietnam because of its ancient appearance, quiet, elegant and hidden beauty in this thousand-year-old city of civilization! Let’s explore Ha Noi city tour in detail with Signatures of Asia!

08:00 – 08:30: Car and guide pick up you at your hotel, start your Ha Noi city tour.

In the morning, you will visit with:

• Tran Quoc Pagoda – located on an island east of West Lake (Tay Ho district). The pagoda has a history of nearly 1500 years, considered the oldest in Thang Long – Hanoi. Its architecture has a harmonious combination of majesty and antiquity with an elegant landscape amidst the quiet background of a vast lake. 
• Visit the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum relic site, a complex including:
• Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum – the final resting place of the father of the nation

* Note: on Mondays and Fridays, Uncle Ho’s Mausoleum is closed, so you can only visit from the outside.

• Uncle Ho’s stilt house, where Uncle Ho lived and worked from 1958 to 1969.
• One Pillar Pagoda, a small pagoda built on a pillar in the middle of a square lake, is also a symbol of Hanoi.
• 11:00 a.m: The group will visit an Ethnology Museum – a place to store and display many artifacts and antiques related to the costumes, culture, history and customs of 54 ethnic groups. This is a meaningful visit to ethnographic knowledge.

* Note: The group will visit the Vietnamese Women’s Museum to replace the Ethnology Museum, which is closed every Monday.

• 12:00: Have lunch

     In the afternoon, the tour guide continues to take you to visit:

• 14:00: Temple of Literature – Quoc Tu Giam, which is considered the first university in Vietnam. It is an ancient architecture, built on a fairly large scale, built in October 1073 and exists to this day. The Temple of Literature was built to worship Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, and Chu Van An – principal of Quoc Tu Giam – represents the high moral philosophy of Vietnamese education.

• 15:00: Hoa Lo Prison – built by the French in 1886, the prison is famous because it was the place where many great Vietnamese revolutionaries during the Indochina War and American pilots during the War were detained. Vietnam
• 16:00 – 16:30: End of the Hanoi City tour program, the car takes you back to your hotel in the Old Quarter.