Four Things You Didn't Know About Hanoi Tourist

Hanoi tourist attractions are all around the city, we listed a complete details of what to see that gives you full guide on how to plan your trip in capital of Vietnam. And to make your walking tour easier, our good friend Alex Huynh of created a simple map of the Old Quarter highlighting the best spots to visit in the area. Experience it and learn Hanoi's culture in its truest form.

Every street is like another page of a bestselling novel. A walk in the Old Quarter and in the bustling streets of Hoan Kiem district is as captivating as the scene in a fairytale, even better. As well as there being plenty of street food on offer and lots of pavement vendors selling fruits and vegetables, there are also stalls selling traditional medicines and Buddhist religious trappings.

The backstreets here are a great opportunity to soak up the buzz of Hanoi street life. If you look up while you're wandering, the area has plenty of vernacular shophouse architecture, where merchants would traditionally live above their shops in very long but narrow two-storey dwellings, squeezed together on the alleyway rows. It's a delightfully dilapidated place, where the odd piece of medieval era architecture has managed to cling on within the modern hubbub of whizzing motorbikes, street vendors, and pulsating commerce.

This labyrinthine quarter of narrow alleys is the commercial heartbeat of town and has a history that stretches back 1,000 years. For many visitors to Vietnam's capital, the major attraction is strolling the streets of the city's ancient core. Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) is in the south of the country and has prospered into a thriving, modern metropolis since the times of the Vietnam War.

It is especially appreciated for the winding lanes of the lively Old Quarter district. The country's capital city, Hanoi is awesome to visit and known for its rich culture and centuries-old architecture. My friend went to Ha Noi several times and each time, her family (who all come from Ha Noi) told her not to speak to vendors because if they ever heard her accent (she's from the South), she would definitely got scammed.

I know not all of them are like that but still. People in Ha Noi are countrywide known for being not very friendly, disagreeable, rude and region-ist (if that's even a thing). Even for Vietnamese people, Ha Noi is not considered an ideal destination, that explains why most tourists in Ha Noi are foreigners.

As a Vietnamese, I attest that what you said about Ha Noi is pretty much accurate. All in all Vietnam was an ‘experience' but not one that I would like to repeat. The people were really lovely and the food very tasty.

We did try to make the most of our time there however and did a few really good tours in Saigon including a motorbike street food tour and the Chu Chi tunnels and a water buffalo cart trip in Hoi an. By contrast our short time in Siem Reap in Cambodia was fab.