Hanoi Full-Day Guided City Tour with Entry Fees

8:00 -8:30am: We will pick you up from your hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter or Hanoi Opera House. In the morning, we will visit: Tran Quoc Pagoda, complex of president Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, The temple of literature, Hoa Lo prison

Located on an east side isle of the West Lake (Tay Ho district), It is considered as the most ancient pagoda in Thang Long - Ha Noi with its historical progression in 1500 years. It has a harmonious combination between the majesty, hoariness architecture and peaceful landscape of the West Lake. From the period in the Ly and Tran dynasties, it had become the Buddhist center of Thang Long.

Visit the President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum complex, which includes the Stilt home and Mausoleum. This is where the illustrious leader resided and worked till the end of his life. You can discover more about Uncle Ho's modest life here. You will also visit One Pillar Pagoda to see one of Hanoi's four icons.

One Pillar Pagoda is a spiritual and cultural symbol of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. With special features in its structure along with historical values, the temple will surely be a real eye-opener for tourists.

Vietnam Museum of Ethnology is a unit under the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. Vietnam Museum of Ethnology is both a research center and a public museum exhibiting the ethnic groups of Vietnam. The mission of the Museum is scientific research, collection, documentation, conservation, exhibition, and preserving the cultural and historic patrimony of the nation's different ethnic groups. The museum also serves to guide research, conservation, and technology that are specific to the work of an ethnographic museum.

Return to the Old Quarter to have lunch at the restaurant. After lunch, you will see 36 streets from the car and listen to the guide tell stories about the streets of the ancient urban marketplace.

Being an ancient school of Thang Long and the first university in Vietnam, Temple of Literature is acknowledged as an ancient historical-cultural heritage which gives tourists a deeper understanding about Hanoi's years of culture and tradition.

Built in 1899. The French held mainly political prisoners here, along with those awaiting sentencing at the nearby Court of Justice, as well as American pilots who had been shot down and captured as prisoners of war. The pilots sarcastically called it the "Hanoi Hilton. John McCain was held here at various times during his five and a half years as a POW.

16:00: End of Hanoi City Tour, the car will take you back to the hotel