Private Tour: Hanoi City Highlights Day Trip

Itinerary
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Stop At: Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, 2 Hung Vuong Ba Dinh Square, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam

Start your journey by traveling to the Ho Chi Minh Complex with a hotel pickup at 8am. Here you'll see Ho Chi Minh's stilt house and Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum (closes on Monday and Friday morning. And closes during October), the final resting place of the beloved national hero. At 9:30am you'll visit the One Pillar Pagoda, a group of structures that collectively make up the pagoda built over the water in the middle of a square lake.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Chua Tran Quoc, Thanh Nien, Hanoi 10000 Vietnam

Afterwards, explore the Tran Quoc Pagoda on the shore of Hanoi's West Lake

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Temple of Literature & National University, Quoc Tu Giam Street Dong Da District, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam

Moving on to the Temple of Literature, Vietnam's first university and was dedicated to Confucius.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Quan Thanh Temple, Thanh Nien Street Quan Thanh, Ba Dinh, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam

Enjoy lunch at a restaurant in Old Quarter before heading to visit the Quan Thanh Temple

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Nguyen Van Huyen Street Cau Giay, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam

Continue to visit the Museum of Ethnology. This superb museum showcases the depth of Vietnamese cultural diversity with an astounding collection of 15,000 artifacts gathered from throughout Vietnam including maps, displays and dioramas. Displays portray a typical village market, the making of comical hats and a Tay shamanic ceremony complete with videos of the real thing. You can also check out a traditional Black Thai house reconstructed in the museum. There's also a center for research and conservation where scientists from all over the world study traditional Vietnamese cultures.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Lake of the Restored Sword (Hoan Kiem Lake), Hanoi 100000 Vietnam

Finally, you'll see Hoan Kiem Lake (Restored Sword Lake), the heart and soul of Hanoi including a visit to the Ngoc Son Temple.

Note: On Monday and Friday morning, Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and Ethnic museums are closed

Duration: 30 minutes