Many visitors and tourism firms have complained about the VND400,000 (USD17.60) package to enter the Hanoi Opera House. Hanoi Opera House was opened to tourists from September 6. The visitors can tour the opera house, enjoy tea and an art performance for VND400,000. Students and people under preferential treatment policy have half price entry. Other …
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Summer is in the air and Hanoi has been chosen once again as the best destination worldwide for a cheap vacation, beating Mumbai and Bangkok. The TripIndex 2016 report by the travel guide site TripAdvisor has named Vietnam’s capital city as the least expensive among 20 favorite cities surveyed, for the third year in a …
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Thang Long, which is Ha Noi’s centre nowadays, was chosen by Ly Thai To, the founding king of Ly Dynasty, as the capital of Dai Viet Kingdom (nowadays Vietnam) since Autumn of 1010. Thang Long means ascending dragon, symbolizing the will and thirst for independence of the Vietnamese people after more than one thousand years …
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Location: In Yen Village, Thach That District, Hanoi. Characteristics: It is also an exposition gallery for many national engraving and sculpture masterpieces. The pagoda was built in the 8th century and has been restored several times since. In 1632, the pagoda was rebuilt according to the Sino-Vietnamese character Tam (three), featuring three sections: the upper …