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December 2018
Hanoi city walk (English) – back alleys of Hàng Da Market area
Hidden pagodas, small communal houses dedicated to patrons of craft guilds, narrow streets full of local life, Chinese merchant mansions, legends you haven’t heard before, bits of the old citadel, and more characterize this charming walk through the small streets and alleys surrounding the old leather market. Meet 9:30am @ 51 Đường Thành, in front of the Hồng Hà Theatre Register with Loan via: 70,000 vnd pp Please leave your mobile phone number so we can contact you in…
Find out more »Music event: Christmas music/carols – The Hope Choir
The Hope Choir have a Christmas performance at their blind centre in Lac Trung - Saturday 22 December @ 3pm. We hope as many people can attend as possible to support them. Apart from being blind they are amazing singers and musicians in their own right What Triem and his wife Thanh have achieved is amazing If you would like more information please contact Stella - stella@fvheritage.org - we will have a donation envelope for the choir. The below…
Find out more »Hanoi CHRISTMAS DAY city walk (English) – City walks: Nguyễn Công Trứ Street and surrounding area – FULL
THIS WALK IS FULL (RSVP for the waiting list) (H A P P Y C H R I S T M A S EVERYONE Join us for our Christmas Day morning walk Our walk starts outside number 5D Hàm Long street, where the first Communist Party Cell of Hanoi was established. Then along Lò Đúc Street to the Pasteur gardens, and outside the National Institute of Hygiene & Epidemiology (originally the Pasteur Institute). Back up to Lò Đúc and into…
Find out more »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 …..…
Find out more »January 2019
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…
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