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December 2018
Hanoi city walk BOXING DAY (English) – Lê Duản street and surrounding area
Join us for a Boxing Day stroll around Lê Duản street and the surrounding area. Starting at Cửa Nam we explore the history of the former Cửa Nam gate, nearby streets, where parasols were traded, one of the homes of the lady with the flared skirt (statue of liberty), one of the original pho ga stalls, what used to be where Quan An Ngon is, the Mandarin road, what was originally on the site of Hanoi railway station and so on …..…
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Hanoi city walks (English) – Đền Quán Thánh & stories of Trúc Bạch Lake + Ngũ Xã island
THIS WALK HAS 2-3 PLACES AVAILABLE - NEARLY FULL Please arrive by 8.50am ready to start the tour at 9am. Meet outside Đền Quán Thánh, the very important, old almost purely Taoist temple with its 3.7-ton 350-year-old bronze statue of Trấ́́n Vũ, Hanoi’s Protector of the North. While the main theme of this walk is bronze casting, we will also walk along Trấn Vũ around Trúc Bạch lake and hear about a number of past and modern day stories, legends…
Find out more »Hanoi city walk (English) – Lê Duản street and surrounding area
THIS IS FULL (new RSVPs will go on a waiting list) Join us for a stroll around Lê Duản street and the surrounding area. Starting at Cửa Nam we explore the history of the former Cửa Nam gate, the nearby streets and stories of the area, who was the 'French Lady with the flared skirt, where were parasols were traded, which is one of Hanoi’s original Phở gà stalls, what used to be where Quan An Ngon is, where was the Mandarin road, what was…
Find out more »Hanoi City Walk (English) – tour around the Revolutionary Museum
We are excited to add a new English walk - this time a tour around the Revolutionary Museum. It is led by Mike who teaches English to the Vietnamese guides and he has kindly offered to lead tours for FVH around the museum. The building at 216 Tran Quang Khai street (the former National Museum of the Vietnamese Revolution) was constructed in 1917 as the headquarters of the Indochina Department of Trade. In 1954, when the North was liberated, the Government…
Find out more »FVH book club – “Dumb Luck” by Vu Trong Phung
FVH Bookclub members For January the book we will be discussing is: Dumb Luck by Vu Trong Phung Dumb Luck, by the brilliant, controversial, and influential Vietnamese writer Vu Trong Phung, is a bitter satire of the rage for modernization in Vietnam during the late-colonial era. First published in Hanoi in 1936, it follows the absurd and unexpected rise within colonial society of a street-smart vagabond named Red-haired Xuân. As it charts Xuân's fantastic social ascent, the novel provides a…
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