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Day
1: Hanoi Arrival -Old Quarter (D)
On
arrival at Noi Bai Airport, you are met and transferred to the
hotel. Ha Noi, Vietnam's capital, is a stylish and gracious city
that retains an unique old world charm and some Asia ‘s most
striking colonial architecture. Many lakes and parks are made for
relaxing atmosphere. If time permits, we embark on a cyclo for a
short excursion through the bustling old quarter streets named
after the specific goods once offered for sale at these places.
Overnight in Hanoi Melia Hotel.
Day
2 : Hanoi Hictory - Water Puppet Show (B,D)
Today we enjoy a full day city tour starting with the Ho Chi Minh
Complex, containing the mausoleum of the nation’s founder Ho Chi
Minh, the Presidential Palace and the Ho Chi Minh’s house on
stilts. This complex also comprises the One Pillar Pagoda, whose
origins date back to the foundation of city. We follow this with a
trip to the Temple of Literature, which is well known as the first
university of Vietnam and the impressive Ethnologic Museum,
dedicated to Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups. The beautiful West Lake
and the History Museum with an excellent collection of artifacts
illustrating the Vietnamese history, are not to be missed. We
visit these sights before continuing to the peaceful lake of Hoan
Kiem. In front of this lake is the famous water puppet theatre
where we will see a fantastic performance. Overnight in Hanoi
Melia Hotel
Day
3 : Van Phuc Silk Village & Hanoi Shopping Tour (B)
Pick up at your hotel in Hanoi,
drive to Van Phuc to visit
the
thousand-year-old village still keeps its traditional
features, which are seen along village lanes in craft workshops,
where manual looms are preserved, despite the powered ones that
are gradually replacing them in many families, or in the image of
the village market, located right at the centre of the village, or
in the curved roof of the communal house and moss-covered ancient
gate, return to Hanoi for lunch and in the after noon ,Let's
be busy with your shopping bags today. The galleries in Hanoi are
featured by lacquer ware and lacquered pictures, oil paintings,
silk paintings and traditional paintings drawn or
woodblock-printed on "giay do", a special kind of paper made
traditionally from rice powder, shell, straw and other
ingredients. The Craft and Boutique Shops, especially in the Old
Quarter, offer refined collections of Vietnamese and Chinese silks
and linen, handicrafts and decorative fabrics of the hill tribal
people, embroidery and beading products, counterfeit antiques and
normal utensils made of traditional materials including silver,
bamboo, wood and rattan.
Overnight in Hanoi
Melia Hotel
Day
4 : Hanoi at leisure & departure
There is free time to relax or further explore Ha Noi. The tour
ends after your transfer to Noi Bai Airport for departure. |
