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Temple of Literature & National University Hanoi

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Halong Bay Hanoi

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  • Dec 19, 2008: ... a cooking course and also a trip to Halong bay.  One thing you will notice in Hanoi is the sheer volume of travel agents ...
  • Feb 24, 2009: ... ? it's 13p! Two of our days in the Hanoi area were spent at Halong Bay, about three hours drive away. We booked onto a ...
  • Feb 1, 2005: ... distaste for group tours, we signed up for an overnight trip to Halong Bay. Thirty-five dollars bought us a cabin on a boat, ...
  • Oct 28, 2008: ... time, and ranting around an island on a motorbike.  From Halong bay.....head south. Can view all pics here : http:// ...

Ocean Tours Hanoi

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  • Feb 22, 2008: ... Bay and Sapa areas as we want to go to both. Ocean tours runs good tours we were told by other travellers so we checked a few ...
  • Apr 21, 2009: ... list items. For the tour we signed up with Ocean Tours. The copious amounts of Vietnamese food was available at ...
  • Feb 20, 2006: ... a "Champagne Cruise" around the Bay with a friends company (Ocean Tours). Although the champagne turned out to be some sort ...
  • May 8, 2008: ... etwas schlau gemacht und so sind wir schlussendlich bei Ocean Tours gelandet. Die Leute dort waren unglaublich freundlich und ...

Just Massage Hanoi

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  • Mar 19, 2009: ... 4 of us treated ourselves to massages! We went to a place called Just Massage that employs visually impaired people. I had a ...
  • Jul 24, 2008: ... hotels - a very nice roof-top pool. Swedish massage at Just Massage with partially sighted masseurs - should've been ...

Ho Chi Minh's Residence (Nha Bac Ho) Hanoi

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Old Quarter Hanoi

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  • Apr 30, 2005: ... all assertiveness and just received. On the border of the old quarter is a charming area called Hoan Kiem Lake. It's ...
  • Dec 19, 2008: ... ; (Prince 1 hotel in case you want to avoid it). The old quarter in Hanoi has lots of character but is very cramped and ...
  • Feb 24, 2006: ... the jumper and the hats are out. We're staying in the old quarter of the city, which is the back packer area. The streets ...
  • Feb 1, 2005: ... and chaos in the streets. Our guesthouse is located in the Old Quarter, or the backpacker's ghetto, as I like to call it. ...

Thang Long Water Puppet Theater Hanoi

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  • Dec 2, 2007: ... up and eat the damn stuff. Okay, the Thang Long Water Puppet Theater - the original presentation of this kind of theater ...

Hoa Lo Prison Hanoi

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  • Jan 13, 2007: ... a baby eater of massive proportions. We also went to Hoa Lo Prison Museum. Essentially the museum is all that remains of ...
  • Jan 28, 2004: ... do a load of Museums today. First stop Hoa Lo Prison, otherwise known as The Hanoi Hilton by American guests during the war. ...
  • Mar 10, 2008: ... but the most interesting for me was what remains of the Hoa Lo Prison.  Or as the U.S. pilots called it who were held ...
  • Nov 17, 2007: ... an appropriate word, the highlight of our tour was Hoa Lo Prison, or the "Hanoi Hilton", as it was dubbed by the Americans ...

Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Hanoi

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  • Feb 1, 2005: ... you could ever desire... First on our list was the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, where you can go view the actual body, put on ...
  • Feb 20, 2007: ... that took us to a few pagodas and by the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. It's an impressive structure with nicely landscaped gardens. ...
  • May 27, 2006: ... gave me my fill of propaganda for the day as the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum was closed today, probably due to a visit to Madame ...
  • May 15, 2005: ... in the evening, five of us walked over to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. The huge courtyard outside, Ba Dinh Square, becomes a ...

One Pillar Pagoda (Chua Mot Cot) Hanoi

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  • Sep 18, 2003: ... area containing various museums and temples, and visited the One Pillar Pagoda. We also went to the Chinese embassy to pick ...
  • Feb 20, 2007: ... money for fake.  The gods are easily fooled. The One Pillar Pagoda (Chua Mot Cot) was mildly cool. I like the idea. ...
  • Aug 18, 2008: ... exciting moment, but worth the visit. A visit to the "One Pillar Pagoda" followed, which was amazingly a Pagoda on one pillar ...
  • Jan 16, 2008: ... of our trip. Originally built in 1049, the One-Pillar Pagoda is a wooden structure that sits on stilts over a lake. ...

Ca Phe Ve Lo Hanoi

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Vietnam Museum of Ethnology Hanoi

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  • Jan 12, 2005: ... sight that I think gets easily overlooked is the Museum of Ethnology. Inside were several exhibits of the dress and housing ...
  • Jan 28, 2004: ... though. Memorial House also closed. Get taxi to much heralded Museum of Ethnology but it is also closed for Tet. Get taxi to ...
  • Mar 15, 2005: ... of history lessons; the first at the excellent Museum of Ethnology which describes the country's diversity, comprising 54 ...
  • Mar 11, 2008: ... the tripe.  Finally we went to the Museum of Ethnology, a fine collection that succeeds in illuminating the minority ...

Lake of the Restored Sword (Hoan Kiem Lake) Hanoi

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  • Jan 13, 2007: ... We started our exploration of the city at Hoan Kiem Lake ( Lake of the Restored Sword ) which is right next to the main ...
  • Feb 10, 2007: ... Old Quarter is on the northern end of Ho Hoan Kiem - the Lake of the Restored Sword.  This lake is the setting for an ...
  • Dec 30, 2007: ... the gigantic embalmed body of a tortoise. The lake is called "Lake of the Restored Sword" because as the story goes, a long ...
  • Nov 15, 2008: ... I made my way to Hoan Kiem Lake (Lake of the Restored Sword), the geographical and spiritual center of the Old Quarter ...

Fine Arts Museum (Bao Tang My Thuat) Hanoi

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  • Dec 21, 2006: ... in a mausoleum for everyone to gawk at. Went to the fine arts museum - far superior to the SG version, it was a 'Great ...
  • Aug 17, 2006: ... propaganda as we'd expected. We also went to the Fine Arts museum, a really pretty old building in a state of neglect, which ...
  • May 22, 2006: ... and seeing some of the sights of Hanoi. Yesterday I went to the Fine Arts Museum, which housed sculptures and carvings from ...
  • May 8, 2009: ... closed on Friday. Ugh!   We went to the Fine Arts museum which is located in an old colonial building. The displays ...

Old Hanoi Restaurant Cooking Class

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Wide Eyed Tours Hanoi

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  • Nov 27, 2006: ... restaurant we walked into has a tour company below called Wide Eyed Tours, hmm... I though where do i know that name from?!? ...

Hidden Hanoi

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  • Feb 24, 2009: ... rolls, chicken and catfish. You can find Pho everywhere in Vietnam and our hotel offered it for breakfast. It's a sort of ...
  • Feb 20, 2006: ... Immediately, the choice of water made sense: Northern Vietnam's people are intricately connected with water, whether through ...
  • Jan 16, 2008: ... POW's were imprisoned here during the Vietnam War and nicknamed it the 'Hanoi Hilton.' One of the young pilots shot ...
  • Aug 26, 2006: ... of the road (literally) on low furniture fit for a 5-year old Vietnam is definitely on our list of places we'd like to ...

Dai Cat Foot Massage Hanoi

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Ho Chi Minh Museum Hanoi

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  • Jul 29, 2003: ... Hue. Arrive in Hue at 1pm and take in the Ho Chi Minh museum before visiting a Contemporary Arts museum, which is closed! ...
  • Aug 15, 2004: ... ! 3, Statue of Ho Chi Ming - see attached photo 4, Ho Chi Minh Museum - again, a comical visit for Sarah, James, Nic ...
  • May 27, 2006: ... better idea to take one rather than struggle on foot over to the Ho Chi Minh Museum which by the time I got there I was just ...
  • Feb 14, 2006: ... a downward spiral to war with the U.S. and South Vietnam. The Ho Chi Minh Museum, amidst modern new exhibits and halogen ...

Opera House (Nha Hat Lon) Hanoi

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  • Jul 29, 2003: ... waiting for the visas. Walk across town to look at the Opera House, which is a fantastic sight. Back to the hotel to take ...
  • Jan 12, 2005: ... be coming back soon. The next day I walked over to the opera house to see what was playing. Next door was the Hilton, ...
  • May 19, 2004: ... We caught more xe om to the Paris Deli, near the opera house, for a late breakfast and then went for a walk around lake ...
  • Apr 26, 2004: ... trees. We took a walk around it and had a look around the Opera House which is quite impressive. We then headed back to the ...
 
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