This video will hopefully help you if, like us you are visiting Hanoi for the first time. Follow us around the local sights and a couple of great places to eat!
- 'Free' walking tour - suggested payment 12 USD PP
- Hanoi Opera house
- Ho Chi Minh mausoleum and Presidential palace
- Train Street - check times before you arrive and grab a seat at the front or upstairs in cafes for best views. Put a bottle cap on the track and get a souvenir
- Banh Mi - highly recommend Banh M1 25 worth the hype
- Pho 10 - on Ly Quoc Sur. Excellent Pho, around 3pm tends to be quieter
- Exchange money - Cash is King in Vietnam, they love crisp high denomination USD. Use the places on Ha Trung and get a good rate
- Water puppet show - Lotus Puppet theatre, no need for audio as description comes up before each act. Just buy tickets at the theatre
- Best Vietnamese egg coffee - in our opinion and a local, Cafe Pho Co situated on 11, Hang Gai st. Very steep steps to get to top but the lake view is worth it
- Night market
- Hoa Lo Prison - aka 'Hanoi Hilton' definitely worth a visit to learn about French colonisation and the American/Vietnam war. In English and very visual.
- Foot massages - great after the amount of walking you'll be doing!
- Hanoi traffic - walk and don't run, keep your wits about you and look both ways!
Enjoy this wonderful city!
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