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French Quarter Tour

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From $25.00

Price varies by group size

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Departs: Hanoi, Hanoi

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

Hanoi’s French quarter, the grid of streets south of Hoan Kiem Lake, is unique amongst Asian capital cities. It is packed with buildings from different eras in the city’s history. It features ancient pagodas; classical European architecture; international modernist architecture (avant-garde Art Deco residences) as well as a fusion between Asian and French style architecture. Each of these styles is a tangible sign of the ideological shifts, which have influenced Vietnamese culture over the centuries. Much more than just bricks and mortar, they are monuments to the vision of French, Vietnamese and Soviet thinkers and architects.

What's Included

Coffee and/or Tea

Snacks

What's Not Included

transportation during the tour

Traveler Information

CHILD: Age: 6 - 12
YOUTH: Age: 16 - 30
ADULT: Age: 31 - 40
SENIOR: Age: 41 - 60

Additional Info

Face masks required for guides in public areas
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Public transportation options are available nearby

Face masks required for guides in public areas
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Public transportation options are available nearby

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

Experience may be cancelled due to Insufficient travelers
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

What To Expect

Cultural Friendship Palace (Cung Van Hoa Huu Nghi)

We will start our tour in the heart of French quarter. This is also our meeting point. This palace recently re-built by the help Of Xo Viet union. So the Architecture is quite strong and grey. There was another type of architecture insisted before that. We will then find down the mystery of that story by a cup of tea of the street. Our guide will then let you know the important information about the tour. Such as timing, plan in general. And history, time-linen relevant with its evident we will see later in particular.

The beauty of landscape with mixed match architecture from Vietnamese to Chinese, from French to Russian will amaze you how stunning of the history effected to our lifestyle. We will walking through those streets with many French architecture villas in Semi classic, Indohina, Art deco.... Like Train station, train company office, clinic, prison, court house.Some are old and rotten, but some are in great quality. All together have make the experiences more extradinary.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Hanoi University of Science and Technology

We get on the taxi and go from the first location to the second location. This is the first university of Vietnam, Indochina University where The French government used to teach local about: Medicine, Science, Art, construction, literature.... The beautiful building in Indochina style marked clearly with yellow mustard color. This is the few building in Hanoi that has been built since early 1900 but still have the great condition. There are Universities and 1 museum in this building.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Hanoi Opera House

After the universities and the museum, We are walking to the Opera house. This is another very well preserved building. Once you walking into this area. You will not thing that you are in Asian country but somewhere in Europe. All the building in this area has to follow the policy from the Government. They need to build in French architecture style. We will also see the first and most popular hotel in whole indochina: The Metropole hotel. We will also have a look at the Art Deco style of the Indochina bank, Semi classic of Resident superieur du Tonkin by architect Auguste HenriVildieu.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

St. Joseph's Cathedral

We take the second taxi to the 3rd location which is right on the edge of Old quarter. So from here, you will see clearly the mixed match of the architecture everywhere. This area used to have many catholics families living. This is the biggest church in the North that built by the French in 1887 by the money they raise from the city lottery. The Gothic design with its quality is great and well preserved. Walking inside in any day especially on Sunday morning, you will see 3 different communities participate in different timing: French, English and Vietnamese catholic community.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum

The 3rd taxi will take us to the last location: Politic area. After had the whole of Vietnam in 1884. The French government had built a lot of facilities in this area. Including President palace, Indochina Finance..... right next to the old Citadel. The area also has many villa which built by the French business. Nowaday, they are using at the Embassy. There are not many Vietnamese residents live in this area.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

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