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Hanoi offers free tourism bus services on national holidays

Hanoi has offered free double-decker buses for people on the Reunification Day (30/4) and International Labour Day (May 1) holidays.

Lang Pagoda Festival: Unique heritage in Hanoi

Lang Pagoda Festival is a traditional Spring Festival of people living by To Lich River.

Hanoi to open three more walking streets

This year, the People’s Committee of Dong Da District will set up a plan to open a food zone on Nguyen Van Tuyet Street and a pedestrian zone on Van Mieu and Quoc Tu Giam streets.

The unique 600-year-old Tibetan pagoda in Hanoi

Long Quang, located on Kim Giang Street in Thanh Liet Commune, Thanh Tri District is the only Tibetan pagoda in Hanoi.

VN Village for Ethnic Culture showcases unique culture of 54 ethnic groups

Visitors do not have to travel far from Hanoi to get a sense of the ethnic minorities living in northern Vietnam.

Hanoi to develop golf as key tourism product

Golf tourism is being considered a potential tourism product that can make important contributions to drawing international guests to VN in general and to Hanoi in particular, especially guests from South Korea, Japan, the US and Europe.

Top places surrounding Hanoi for upcoming public holiday

Ba Vi national park, Bat Trang pottery village, and the Trang An-Ninh Binh ecological tourist complex are among the ideal destinations for travelers to enjoy around Hanoi.

Hyper-realistic venerable monk statue at Hanoi pagoda

The statue of Venerable Thich Thanh Tu at Hanoi’s Quan Su Pagoda is astonishing as it looks like a real person.

Stunning beauty of 300-year-old Hoa Bun tree in Hanoi

A 300-year-old Hoa Bun tree which can be seen in full bloom covers a local village on the outskirts of Hanoi in special white and yellow flowers every April.

Pearl Island-Ngu Xa night food street: An attractive rendezvou in Hanoi

The newly established food street in the inner district of Ba Dinh brings fascinating cultural, tourist, and culinary experiences to travelers at home and abroad.

Hanoi bars ’tours’ to popular ’train street’

Hanoi's tourism department has asked travel and transportation companies in the city not to organise tours to ’train street’.

Hanoi opens tour to Co Loa Ancient Citadel

Locals and foreign travelers to Vietnam will have a chance to experience and learn the stories of the Co Loa Ancient Citadel in the suburb of Hanoi through a fresh storytelling style.

Hanoi’s ancient pagoda in the red-silk cotton tree season

In March, red-silk cotton trees bloom, showing off their beauty at the thousand-year-old Thay Pagoda in Quoc Oai district in Hanoi.

Hanoi drafts to restore local relics with US$593.6 million

Restoring relics and heritage sites is one of Hanoi's goals and is part of the city's efforts to boost its tourism sector.

Centuries-long lake in Hanoi gets facelift

With the facelift and the special value it boasts, Ho Van, a big lake belonging to the system of the Temple of Literature, is expected to become an appealing cultural-creative space of Hanoi in the years ahead.

Hanoi digitizes tourist attractions improve travel experience

Digital transformation is one of the important solutions for tourist sites and travel businesses to build tours and attract visitors to Hanoi.

Hanoi to have more cultural tours to the suburbs

The ancient temple and pagoda dedicated to the Empress-regent in Duong Xa Commune, Gia Lam District, are expected to become a new heritage tourism destination, aiming to diversify the capital’s tourism products.

Hanoi makes good use of heritage-based cultural industries

Fostering heritage values to promote tourism and attract more local and international tourists is an important mission of Hanoi’s cultural policy-makers in the coming period.

National Museum of History launches first night tour for local and foreign visitors

Local and foreign visitors now can enjoy a 90-minute night tour of the Vietnam National Museum of History in Hanoi, with the activity promising enticing cultural, culinary, and architectural experiences for guests.

Embroidering in a royal tradition

Dong Cuu Village lies on the bank of the Nhue Giang River in Hanoi's suburban Thuong Tin District, and has been long famed for its traditional embroidery.