Tag: Hanoi 2023

Another must-do activity in Hanoi is the food tour, where you’d get brought around the Old Quarter and possibly also other neighboring districts in Hanoi to sample local street food. There are just a few variations to this activity: whether

Prior to our arrival in Hanoi, we’d been discussing the itinerary with Hanoi Private Free Tours, and one place I was particularly interested in is Train Street. This famous, if not especially long, stretch of about 100 meters features an

Our next stop was St. Joseph’s Cathedral, one of the landmark sites in Hanoi’s Old Quarter. This church is neo-Gothic in style, and is a working church that has masses on weekdays and services on weekends. The church was built

One of the popular things to do when in Hanoi is to engage locals to bring you on tours by foot to explore the Old Quarter. There are many such possibilities around and listed on travel sites like Klook. From

There is a very large number of small hotels located in the Old Quarter. The one we’re staying at – San Grand Hotel – also just so happens to be very near Hoan Kiem Lake, a freshwater lake that is

I was sharing with our ang mo bud Matt that itinerary preparation-wise, we’d been pretty chill, relatively, when compared to the large amount of planning for last December’s Japan trip, for this 10-day trip to Hanoi. It’s probably in equal

We were initially planning for a nine-day trip to Hanoi, and had prepared an itinerary for that and did a soft booking for our stay at Lucien Hotel in early February. However, the trip length was extended to ten days

A new year, and again lots of exploration to see where to go to over the two long school vacation breaks in June and December. We were reasonably set to re-visit Japan at the end of this 2023 year, but