Hanoi's Old Quarter, north of Hoan Kiem Lake, is the historic and tourist heart of the city: a maze of narr...
Hanoi is the capital of northern Vietnamese street food: pho soup, grilled bun cha, banh cuon rice rolls, b...
Dong Xuan Market is the largest covered market in Hanoi's Old Quarter, at the northern end of the...
Train Street is the name given to a stretch of the Hanoi–Ho Chi Minh City railway line running th...
Hanoi's weekend night market sets up every Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening in the pedestrian ...
Hoan Kiem Lake, the "Lake of the Returned Sword", is the heart of Hanoi: it touches the Old Quart...
Ngoc Son Temple, the "Temple of the Jade Mountain", sits on Jade Islet in the north of Hoan Kiem ...
The Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre, at 57B Dinh Tien Hoang Street, about 200 m from Hoan Kiem La...
Bach Ma Temple, the "White Horse Temple", stands at 76 Hang Buom Street in the Old Quarter. Its f...
The French Quarter is the part of Hanoi south and south-east of Hoan Kiem Lake that the French co...
The Hanoi Opera House, at 1 Trang Tien Street, is a neoclassical theatre built by the French betw...
At weekends, traffic is cut around Hoan Kiem Lake and in several neighbouring Old Quarter streets...
Entry to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum is free, with no ticket or booking, but only in the morning: T...
Hoa Lo Prison is the former Maison Centrale built by the French in the late 19th century to hold ...
