Hanoi Highlights: Full-Day City Tour and Water Puppet with Small Group

The Bus will pick you up from 7:45 – 8:45 am, depending where you stay.

09:00 : Visit Ho Chi Minh complex, you have a chance to see the embalmed body of Ho Chi Minh then walk around Ho Chi Minh garden to see 2 houses where he lived & worked from 1954 to 1969.

09:50 : Visit One Pillar Pagoda where worshipping the Godess of Mercy – It is the most unique padoga in the world

10:15 : Visit the Lacquer Paintings workshop – the biggest center in Ha Noi

10:45 : Visit one of these :
• Option 1 : Bat Trang ceramics & pottery village

(On Mondays – Wednesdays – Fridays )
• Option 2 : Vietnam Museum of Ethnology

(On Tuesdays – Thursdays – Saturdays & Sundays)

12:30: Have lunch at our restaurant. You have an opportunity to enjoy Vietnamese cuisine with 8 delicious dishes. 

13:30 – 13:45 : Continue to visit Temple of Literature – the first university in Vietnam in the feudal system.

15:00 : Visit Tran Quoc Pagoda – was first built in Ha Noi in 6th century. You will see the oldest Bodhi Tree in Vietnam planted by Ho Chi Minh.

15: 45 : Leaving for Hoan Kiem Lake to visit Ngoc Son Temple where worships General Tran Hung Dao who defeated Mongolian invader in 13th certury.

16:15 : The bus transfer you to the Water puppet theater for the show ( for around 45-50 minutes). Tour ends, tourists find the taxi or walk back to hotel yourself.

Note :
• Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum is closed on Mondays and Fridays.
• Moreover, Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum is closed at least 3 months from Sept 5th until December 5th for maintaining every year
• Should dress modestly by covering from shoulders to knees in the public places like a temple, pagoda, HCM mausoleum …
• Should bring the necessary things such as : cash, cellphone or camera, raincoat/ umbrella ,sun block …( depending on the weather)