Hanoi on Foot: A Local’s Free Tour
Overview
Stop 1: Hoan Kiem Lake (30 minutes)
Experience the vibrant local culture as you observe residents engaging in activities like badminton, morning exercises, and social gatherings.
Stop 2: Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum (1 hour)
Explore a peaceful, traffic-free area featuring botanical gardens, monuments, memorials, and pagodas. Within this complex, you’ll find Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, the Ho Chi Minh Museum, and the historic One Pillar Pagoda.
Stop 3: Temple of Literature (1 hour)
Originally built in 1070 as Vietnam’s first university, this well-preserved temple honors Confucius, scholars, and sages. Admire its stunning traditional Vietnamese architecture.
Stop 4: Hoa Lo Prison (1 hour)
Learn about Vietnam’s fight for independence from France through compelling exhibits detailing the prison’s history up to the mid-1950s.
Important Notes: Please wear appropriate attire (no tank tops or shorts above the knee) when visiting spiritual sites such as pagodas, temples, the Temple of Literature, and the Ho Chi Minh Complex. The Ho Chi Minh Complex is closed on Mondays and Fridays.
This activity includes:
- Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum
- Hoa Lo Prison Relic
- Temple Of Literature
- Hanoi Train Street
- Hanoi Old Quarter
- Hoan kiem lake center
On arrival
The meeting point will be at Ly Thai To Statue. We will contact you via WhatsApp, Line, or Viber, so please leave us your phone number with the appropriate app.
Things to note
Before the tour, there’s something we need to tell you first: As you may know, we are a nonprofit organization; and this is our Fees policy: All tours from the “Hanoi Free Private Tour Guide” are provided at no charge. Therefore, our guides are mostly students and working people who want to take some free time to show you around the beauties of Vietnam, so you won’t need to pay for our guide’s service. However, as mentioned, our guides are free (they get no fee from this activity), so could you please cover all incurred expenses (such as, ticket, food, transport), if any, for both guides and you during the tour. Please feel free to let us know if you are ok with it.
Free Cancellation
You are free to cancel a booking anytime. We kindly remind you to cancel bookings you cannot arrive for. Being reported as absent decreases your customer level points and the benefits you can enjoy.
