Hanoi cultural tour with handicraft villages

Morning & Afternoon activities:

Our guide and driver will welcome you at Noi Bai International airport. Check-in hotel and relax at the hotel

Evening activities:

Our guide will pick up you at your hotel and start to explore Hanoi by night with a street food tour. You will have the chance to immerse yourself into the world full of street food vendors.

As we come to the market, dozens of street vendors sell an incredible range of products from raw seafood to exotic fruits and spices. Your local English speaking expert will provide you with insight into the complexity and traditions of Vietnamese culinary culture including details about the ingredients and historical context of the dishes. a popular food in the North.

Next, we’ll try different street foods and a French-inspired snack through a street cart and local street food restaurants.

Wander through the maze of the bustling streets that make up Hanoi’s old quarter, we are tempted by Hanoi’s famous street food like Bun Cha (44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017- Obama’s food in Hanoi), Nom Bo Spring rolls, Vietnamese spring rolls. “Spring rolls is one of the most favourite dishes in Vietnam.

The skilled chefs showing you how this delicious dish is combined. Continuing to the heart of the old town, we wander through street stalls where you can find the little changed local life since Hanoi 1000 years ago.

Our next two snack stops are at the outdoor barbeque stalls. We sat down with the people of Hanoi and tasted various meat, vegetables and bread specialities baked on hot coals to add flavour. Then, the time for dessert as we walked into a small alley to join the local tradition was to eat fresh fruit served in a cup and mashed with crushed ice milk and condensed milk – this speciality can not be ignored! Your local tour guide will then take you to one of Hanoi’s best-kept secrets, a hidden street food restaurant to sample the top ten street food in Hanoi, Banh My. Hanoi, Vietnam Rice Wine and famous Egg Coffee in Hanoi.

This hard-to-find cafe is one of the few remaining on the narrow street inside the old quarter of Hanoi. If coffee is not your style, a cold beer is waiting!

And then enjoy the Water Puppet Show, the most amazing cultural show at Thang Long Theatre. At the end of the great trip, you are free to continue exploring the area or guides will take you back to your hotel. Overnight in Ha Noi

Morning activities:

Our guide and driver will take you to Duong Lam Village. Take a souvenir photo at the banyan tree and village gate – one of the most famous traditional Vietnamese village gates in the country.

Go to visit Mong Phu temple over 400 years old, Giang Van Minh Flower Detective Church and one of several old houses – where you can watch and take photos with an old rice mill, buy soy sauce, buy Lam Tea and enjoy lunch in a traditional house made of wood and laterite.

You visit Phung Hung Temple, Ngo Quyen temple … Legend has it that King Ngo Quyen used to tie elephants centuries ago.

Continue to visit a few more old houses on the way to visit the Mia pagoda – the famous temple of the land of Doai. Have lunch at the restaurant.

Afternoon & evening activities:

Move on to the Thay Pagoda. The most famous feng shui pagoda in Vietnam. This pagoda represents the architecture of the ancient pagoda in the North.

Next, you visit Van Phuc silk village. This is a silk weaving village with a history of over a thousand years and also the pride and cultural symbol of Ha Dong land in particular and Hanoi capital in general. Not only brings the beauty of a thousand-year-old traditional village but also an attractive destination for domestic and foreign tourists.

Visit the silk factory, learn about the best silk production process and shopping for the best silk products with colourful clothes, hats, bags, ties in Van Phuc village. You return Hanoi and free to have your own dinner.

Evening is the time you are free to wander around Hanoi Old Quarter, Hoan Kiem Lake, etc as your own experience.

Morning activities:

Savour the last breakfast at the hotel. Morning is the time to discover Hanoi city with Vietnam Fine Art History, Hoa Lo Prison Museum, tunnel right in Metropole Sofitel hotel to learn more of Vietnam history and cultures. Free to have your own lunch.

Afternoon activities:

You are free to relax at the hotel or walk around for shopping. Depending on your departure flight time, our guide and driver transfer you to Ha Noi International Airport for depart. Have an enjoyable time to discover Hanoi city!