After breakfast, your guide and driver will meet you at the hotel in Hanoi and expose the REAL HANOI with a day in the life experiences, featured with the parts-unknown of the city with slices of life in the maze of backstreets, tiny alleyways, local homes, schools, random markets, and black market, experiencing where & how locals live, work and play. Other travel companies show just you the beautiful and tell you to run away from the bad and the weird of your destinations. On Hanoi Backstreet Tours’ journeys, not only do we show you the good, but we also expose the bad and the weird of your destinations as it is what it is. For us, the run-off-the-mill tourist sites are only the tip of the iceberg, the majority of your destinations remains hidden in the parts-unknown.
On the second part of the trip, we also take you to the poetic & peaceful villages and floating community along the Red river to enrich your experiences about the contrast in harmony of life between the city and the countryside of Hanoi.
Afternoon time: Hanoi city tour in a vintage Jeep.
After lunch, you will come inside to visit the MUST-SEEE places of our beautiful city such as the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum-the Mecca of Vietnamese, The 1000-year-old Buddhist and Taoist temples of Tran Quoc, temple of Literature, the historical training track, the enchanting French Quarter, The hustling & bustling Old Quarter, the romantic lakes of Hoan Kiem, West lake, Hanoi Opera House & famous Long Bien bridge, etc.
Last but not least, en route, you gonna stop at different AUTHENTIC restaurants, eateries and food stalls to savor the tastiest dishes of Hanoi including family heirloom & secret recipe dishes, local delicacies and specialties.
Return to your hotel in Hanoi
