Experience Hanoi's local culture while seeing the city's highlights and mingling with locals on this half-day tour by van. Choose from either the morning or afternoon departure.

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Duration 4 hours: Check availability to see starting times.
Live tour guide: English
Pickup included: Please be ready in the hotel lobby at the pickup time

Highlights

Visit the sacred site of Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum and the One Pillar Pagoda
Be guided around the mausoleum grounds learning about the history of the revolution
Visit the Temple of Literature, the first university of Vietnam
See the Hanoi Opera House and learn about the period between France and Vietnam
Visit the Tran Quoc Pagoda, the oldest pagoda in Hanoi which is more than 1,500 years old

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Explore Hanoi and see its highlights on a morning or afternoon city tour by van. See the Temple of Literature, Ho Chi Minh Complex, Tran Quoc Pagoda, and more. Enjoy fresh fruit along the way.

Begin your tour at the Hanoi Opera House in the French Quarter and wonder at one of the city's main architectural landmarks. Then head to the Temple of Literature, the first university of Vietnam built in the 10th century under the Ly Dynasty and greatly influenced by Confucianism.

Make your way to the Ho Chi Minh Complex, an important place for the Vietnamese. The complex is a traffic-free area full of botanical gardens, monuments, memorials and pagodas. Stop outside Ba Dinh Square and take a look outside the mausoleum, then continue to explore the One Pillar Pagoda. Go to Tran Quoc Pagoda, one of the oldest pagodas in Hanoi, before concluding your tour at St. Joseph's Cathedral to learn about religion in Vietnam. The church was one of the first structures built by the French colonial government in Indochina when it opened in December 1886.

Includes

English speaking guide, other languages on request
Transfers by air-conditioned vehicle, including pick-up and drop-off at your hotel (within the Old Quarter area)
All entrance and sightseeing fees (Temple of Literature, Ba Dinh Square and outside Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Tran Quoc Pagoda, outside Opera House, Catholic Church, St. Joseph's Cathedral)
All taxes and services
One drink for each person

Other beverages and meals
Electric car and water puppet show
Entrance ticket for Ho Chi Minh Museum or Ho Chi Minh's Stilt House
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Know before you go

This trip includes visits to temples/pagodas and Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, travelers wearing shorts and miniskirts will not be allowed to enter
Tour program is subject to change due to weather and operating conditions

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4.8 /5

based on 33 reviews

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Guide
4.7/5
Transportation
4.9/5
Value for money
4.8/5
Safety
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The guide was on time at the hotel pick-up with a good knowledge of the various sites. Excellent car transportation to the opera house, temple of literature and school, gardens, lake, HCM mausoleum, pagoda by the lake and the unique egg coffee restaurant at the end of the tour. Luckily, our guide was with us crossing the various roads where the traffic was horrendous. We are not used to just cross in the middle of a stream of cars but we eventually fund the courage with our guide to just hold up an arm and surprisingly the motorbikes and cars weave around you, something we eventually got used to. Good value for money.

November 20, 2019

Exactly the tour we were looking for.

Tracy took us on a private tour through Hanoi. It was exactly what we were hoping for and so much more! The experience was a true immersion into the culture. While we had a little knowledge of history and traditions before, this tour truly widened our horizon. We've absolutely loved trying egg coffee. Tracy also gave us some dinner recommendations and we very much enjoyed dining like a local.

October 18, 2019

Very interesting tour, it gave us the opportunity to see the main beauties of Hanoi in a short time. We were only 2 so it was actually like taking a private tour. Our guide Tom was a competent and nice guy. On the tour we were hungry, so he recommended a great place to eat their Bahn me sandwich. We ended the tour with a tasty egg coffee

September 5, 2019

Hanoi: Morning or Afternoon City Highlights Tour

Hanoi: Morning or Afternoon City Highlights Tour

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