Fly to Hanoi. Upon arrival, our shuttles bus & guide will be holding a sign with your name and welcome you at Noi Bai International airport, transferred to your hotel for check in. Free at leisure or relaxing at hotel, overnight in Hanoi.

Our driver will pick you up at the hotel transfer to Hanoi Full day excursion. Because this tour just include vehicle and driver, the itinerary should be previously confirmed by guests and our driver will take guest to spots as confirmed itinerary. You will be picked up in your hotel to take part in Hanoi City Tour, firstly visit Ho Chi Minh’s mausoleum (outside view on Monday and Friday/Fine Art Museum as alternative), his house on stilt, the botanical garden and the Presidential palace while learning about his life and revolutionary activities. On the way out visit One Pillar pagoda. The pagoda was constructed in 1049 by King Ly Thai Tong according to his dream of Bodhisattva seating on a lotus flower and led him to the pagoda and Temple of Literature. You will have lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch, you will visit Hoan Kiem Lake (Restored Sword lake) with Ngoc Son temple and Ethnology Museum (closed every Monday/ Vietnam Women’s Museum as alternative). Then take the 1 hour cyclo tour around the Old quarter through its streets which are named after the guilds that used to represent such as Hang Bac (Silver Street), Hang Gai (Silk Street), Hang Tre (Bamboo Street) and much more. Return to hotel after this unforgettable full day in Hanoi!

Our driver will pickup you at your hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter, then leave by coach to Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre (57B, Dinh Tien Hoang Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi) - (ROWS E,G, H,I). Vietnamese water puppetry is a unique variation on the ancient Asian puppet tradition. Water puppetry showed the daily life of Vietnamese farmers (cultivating, tending buffalo, catching fishes…), communal entertainment (swimming contest, dragon dancing…), ancient Vietnamese legends, myths and history. Most shows also feature the famous Legend of the Restored Sword of King Le which tells the tale of Hoan Kiem Lake and the giant tortoise. The puppets are made out of wood and then lacquered. The shows are performed in a waist-deep pool. A large bamboo rod supports the puppet under the water and is used by no more than eight the puppeteers, who are normally hidden behind a screen, to control them, puppeteers work in harmony with one another to create magic on stage. Thus the puppets appear to be moving over the water. Water puppet program which is the extremely attractive spiritual speciality. It can say that the appearance of plays with various forms and types has contributed to respect Vietnamese water puppetry, deserving to be Vietnamese cultural quintessence.

Free at leisure until transfer to airport for flight back home. End of service!