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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…
Find out more »Hanoi City walk (English) P.M – silver & coffee: Hàng Bạc to Nguyễn Hữu Huân- FULL
THIS WALK IS NOW FULL. PLEASE RSVP FOR THE WAITING LIST AND PRIORITY FOR THE NEXT TIME THE WALK IS HELD. THANKS A short distance as the crow flies. But we take the long way round zig zagging up and down the streets in this familar area of the Old Quarter to discover the unfamilar – from Đinh Liệt and Hang Bac to Cầu Gỗ and Nguyễn Hữu Huân streets. We touch on many subjects from the birth of silver making…
Find out more »Tour (English): Behind the scenes – State Records & Archives Department of Vietnam – FULL
THIS TOUR IS NOW FULL - PLEASE RSVP FOR THE WAITING LIST. One of our regular activities we aim to run once or twice a year. FVH is delighted to collaborate with the State Records and Archives Department of Vietnam. This afternoon we visit Archives Centre no. 3 which holds post-1945 to present day records. THIS IS A UNIQUE EVENT FOR THE HANOI COMMUNITY arranged specially for FVH. We meet the Director – Tran Viet Hoa – and some of her…
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