HANOI HALF-DAY CITY TOUR WITHOUT LUNCH

MORNING TOUR
8.00- 8.30: Get picked up by our friendly guide and start to explore Hanoi City. 

08.45: Arrive at Tran Quoc Pagoda which was built in the 6^th century located on Golden Fish Island in West Lake.

09.30: Visit Ho Chi Minh complex, you have a chance to see the embalmed body of Ho Chi Minh then walk around the garden to see 2 houses where he lived & worked from 1954 to 1969. Then visit One Pillar Pagoda where worships the Goddess of Mercy – It is the most unique pagoda in the world.

• Should dress modestly by covering from shoulders to knees when visiting Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, temples, pagodas…
• Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum is closed on Mondays and Fridays.
•  Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum is closed at least 2 months (15^thJune -15^thAugust) for the annual maintaining but still can take picture Mausoleum and visit around that area

11.15: Visit Vietnam Ethnology Museum to learn about the culture of 54 ethnic groups living in the whole country of Vietnam

Special Note: we will visit Women Museum instead of Ethnology Museum closed on Mondays.

12.30: Drop off at hotels in Old Quarter. 

AFTERNOON TOUR

13:30: Pickup at hotels in Old Quarter.

14.00-14.15: Visit Temple of Literature – the first university of Vietnam, established in the 11^th centuries. 

15.15: Leave for Hoa Lo Prison Museum which originally used by the French colonists in Indochina for political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam for U.S. prisoners of war during the war. During this later period, it was known to American POWs as the "Hanoi Hilton”.

16.15 -16.30: Tour ends. Back to hotel or get dropped off at Train Street.