Location: Hanoi Zoological Garden is on Cau Giay and Buoi streets, Hanoi; it is located on the west side of Hanoi center-city. Characteristics: Hanoi Zoological Garden is the place where hundreds of animals are exhibited. Hanoi Zoological Garden opened its doors in May 1977. It covers a total area of 29ha, in which water is 6ha. [...]

Location: Ho Tay Water Park is located in Tay Ho District, Hanoi. Characteristic: Ho Tay Water Park covers an area of 35,560m², comprising five entertainment sections. The first phase of its construction was completed on 19 May 2000, putting into operation several entertainment amenities. Among them are seven sliding lanes with the average height of [...]

Location: The Hanoi Opera House is situated on Le Thanh Tong St., Hanoi; near the Red River and several hundreds meters east of Hoan Kiem Lake. Characteristics: It is an old theatre with French architecture and typical Gothic and Mosaic characters reflected on the door domes and the glassed room respectively. For a long time, [...]

Location: Hoan Kiem Lake is located in the center of Hanoi. Characteristic: Hoan Kiem Lake also called Lake of the Restored Sword. The name Lake of the Restored Sword is derived from a legend. After ten years of hard fighting (1418 – 1428), the Lam Son insurrectionists led by Le Loi swept the foreign invaders [...]

Location: Flag Tower is on Dien Bien Phu Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi; near Ba Dinh Square. Characteristic: Hanoi Flag Tower, also called Cot Co, is one of the rare architectural works in Hanoi that was fortunate enough to not be destroyed by the French administration between 1894 and 1897. It was used by French [...]

General information: Hanoi is the capital of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the center of culture, politics, economy and trade of the whole country. Area: 3,324.92 sq. km Population: 6,448,837 habitants (4/2009). Administrative divisions: – 10 urban districts: Hoan Kiem, Ba Dinh, Dong Da, Hai Ba Trung, Tay Ho, Thanh Xuan, Cau Giay, Long Bien, [...]

Quang Nam tourism and culture week will take place in Hanoi from November 20 to 23 with aim to promote culture, history and tourism of the central province of Quang Nam to Hanoians and domestic and foreign investors. This event will be organised to welcome Vietnam culture heritage day November 23 by the Ministry of [...]

On the main festival day, villagers get sacred water for moc duc ceremony (washing statues) and worshipping. The festival involves the incense offering, food offering, praying the Buddha for blessings. The pilgrimages come to the festival to enjoy the landscape, the architecture of the pagoda and the wooden statues of the 18 arhats as well [...]

Tu Dao Hanh was a Buddhist monk in the Ly Dynasty. He had outstanding merits regarding the popularization of the religion, thetreatment of diseases for people and the creation of many games original to Vietnam, including water puppetry. The Thay Pagoda Festival is held on the seventh day of the third lunar month in remembrance [...]

The Capital City Flower Festival will straddle the New Year, running from December 12, 2009 to January 3, 2010 at Hoan Kiem Lake area. This festival, which is being held for the second time, will be Vietnam’s first major cultural and tourism activity in 2010. Nguyen Thi Hoa, Deputy Chairwoman of the Flower Festival’s Organisating [...]