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April 2022
Hanoi City Walks: Ba Đình area – FULL
THIS WALK IS NOW FULL PLEASE RSVP FOR THE WAITING LIST A weekday walk This walking tour gives an overview of the changes to Hanoi during the French colonial period in Vietnam, which lasted more than six decades. By the late 1880s, the French controlled Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, collectively known as Indochine Français (French Indochina). We touch on the development of the education system, town planning and architecture (including that of the political and diplomatic centre) as well as other eclectic…
Find out more »Hanoi City Walk (English) – French concession to Thiền Quang Lake
Our afternoon walk starts in front of the Opera House. From here, we walk to the School of Pharmacy, designed by Ernest Hebrard and make our way along Lý Thường Kiệt Street to Thiền Quang Lake. Learn about the height of French presence within Hà Nội and its influence on architecture and urban design. The walk is led by Alvaro Opera House to Tien Quang Lake Please RSVP via this registration form max 9 people Walk led by Alvaro Please note at…
Find out more »May 2022
City Walk (English): Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long – FULL
THIS WALK IS NOW FULL - ITS A VERY POPLULAR ONE SO WE OFTEN RUN THIS WALK SO PLEASE LOOK OUT FOR THE NEXT TIME THIS IS SCHEDULED Our informative walk led by Alvaro starts in front of the Flag Tower on Điện Biên Phủ with a brief introduction to the Citadel. We will then proceed into the Citadel complex, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, on Hoàng Diệu to learn about/discuss the architecture, the different historical periods of…
Find out more »Bookclub -The Sorrow of War by Bảo Ninh.
"The first critical portrayal of life in the North Vietnamese army ever to appear in Vietnam . . .”—Time “Vaults over all the American fiction that came out of the Vietnam War to take its place alongside the greatest war novel of the century, All Quiet on the Western Front. And this is to understate its qualities, for, unlike All Quiet, it is a novel about much more than war. A book about writing, about lost youth, it is also a beautiful,…
Find out more »Cultural series and workshop – Shan Tuyet tea trees, VN tea culture and a tea tasting experience
Part lecture/presentation, part workshop on Vietnam's tea culture MAY HAVE 1-2 LAST MINUTE SPACES - PLEASE CONTACT STELLA The team at Tien Thien Tra space have been running these presentations and workshops for a while but mainly to a purely Vietnamese audience. They have approached FVH for advice regarding how to make their sessions more relevant to a wider community and especially for those who want more cultural detail about Vietnam's tea traditions and tea tasting experience. We have worked…
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