Hanoi Top Ten

Hanoi

While the myths and ancient history of color and curiosity about the oldest capital of Southeast Asia, is more recent history, the city currently faces, old and brought in many places, but alive, full of character and expression changing. Discovering the Vietnamese capital, can be tolerance for those with traffic, a pleasure for the viewer is constantly surprised by the various parts of the city, clearly historical in form andAssociations.

Beware of pickpockets. Lenin, but he still got robbed. If this claim is not convincing because of something they have never visited Hanoi Lenin, just check his statue, which ended in Hanoi, when the rest of the communist world, his portraits brought crashing to the ground. Statue as a "thief ', looks a bit' scared, and when fishing in his pocket wallets, pickpocket while a flight and show'A thief crying stop'.

With his business booming free Hanoi is, undeniably, a manic city, with its background of DIN 24-7 screaming horns and screeching tires. Besides all the cacophony, it does, but also rewarding and fascinating places and deserves at least a short visit, except for visitors who have a nervous disposition should probably be avoiding the place.

Visitors from Vietnam Saigon arrival need a vacation from vacation to find thatHanoi is a big improvement. While most of the city is about laid-back, like juggling with Semtex, but has many cultural gaps by pandemonium in the streets. It is worth checking at least some of the following attractions.

Hanoi - Top Ten

Before One Pillar Pagoda
Remember, this is what the British call "madness", one pillar Pagoda was built in 1049 during the Ly dynasty, on the west side of the ancient capital of Thang Long. AfterLegend has seen a night in a dream, the old and childless King Ly Thai Tong, the Goddess of Mercy stands on a lotus flower, offers him a son. Soon after the queen was pregnant, and meets the anticipation. The king thanked the Goddess through the construction of the pagoda in a lotus pond and the name of Dien Huu, which means "luck". Luck ran in 1954, will be encouraged to run if from Vietnam, the French palace burned to the ground. Its replacement was built the following year, the sameColumn rebuilt in concrete. One Pillar Pagoda is perhaps the most pleasant of many pagodas in Hanoi. These are usually in their tap exciting as in their overall projects that usually are not as pretty as elsewhere in Southeast Asia.

Second Mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh
Born in 1890, Ho Chi Minh, the son of a Confucian scholar. During his youth he had met McJobs lower around the world and was influenced by radical influences, hasParadoxically, America. Ho Chi Minh subsequently developed a revolutionary, supported and guided the subsequent expulsion of the occupiers of his country: French, Japanese and finally the Americans. President from 1955 until his death in 1969 was the founder of the modern nation-state. Communist government of Vietnam has agreed with him was a divine reinforced by a cult of personality at national level. The focus of the state religion of Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum is his devotion to what has beendeveloped normally, but lead grand style by the Soviets. And 'managed to take control of the construction project which claimed that the Vietnamese lacked their experience in filling, staining and viewing dead leader. Few Hanoian visit in those days. It used to be popular back in the days when it was the only air-conditioned public buildings of the city and visitors had a brief respite from the heat. It 'easy to imagine what the spirit of Uncle Ho (aka Ho Chi Minh) makesthe place as he left instructions in his will that was cremated.

Third Temple of Literature (Van Mieu)
Vietnam's most famous Confucius Temple, Van Mieu originally housed the first university in the country, the Imperial Academy to educate the bureaucrats, royalties and other members of the elite. The university has over 700 years, 1076-1779, to complete, during which more than 2,000 physicians. Founded in 1484, Emperor Le Thanh Tong, the tradition of sculptureOn behalf of the University of winners on the stone stele on the backs of turtles stone cemented. The temple was planted directly in the heart of Vietnamese identity, with its image on the back of a hundred thousand dong note in the window.

Fourth Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum of Fine Arts is the building that once served as the French Ministry of Information. Eastern classical music with the curves, the museum is housed Impressionist, abstract, realistic, and even "super-realist" paintings andSculptures with wood carvings, reproductions of old prints and block. Section appears the ancient treasures of Vietnamese art is particularly interesting. Something unusual for Vietnam, none of the exhibits obvious forgery.

Fifth Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre
One of the funniest sights of Hanoi, have brought the water puppets art festivals around the world from Hong Kong and Spain to Switzerland. The theater is located across the street from Hoan Kiem Lake. Cross slowlybecause the traffic is even crazier than usual for Hanoi.

Sixth Hoan Kiem (Lake of Sword ')
"For nature lovers, the view of Hoan Kiem amazing," says the Vietnamese Tourist Authority. "It 's amazing contest would" probably push, but few realize that the vast area of water is nice and funny in the very heart of the old voyeuristic. Watch out for exercise nuts do push ups on his knees, windmills and Bust-extension exercises. After the completion of acozy womb of the lake, why not open one of the warehouses that dot the route, step rings the lake? It is possible, depending on the scale you find that you've lost five pounds miraculously.

Seventh Ly Thai to the statue
Emperor Ly Thai To established the Ly dynasty (1010-1225) and his old capital of Thang Long ("ascending dragon"), which is now the center of Hanoi, according to a story in 1010, Ly Thai To has been with the unusual name After a great golden dragonRises above the city in the sky. Perhaps these creatures really existed in ancient times, despite the lack of archaeological evidence. Or maybe the brain of the rulers of the regular time went AWOL because I do not know, the hallucinogenic properties of some of their favorite drug.

8th West Lake (Tay Ho)
The largest lake in central Hanoi, West Lake is one of the main attractions. The lake was once a place for the kings and mandarins, which built on the banks reserveLake, a series of beautiful buildings and impressive monuments. The 14 km long windy road that winds around the lake takes the visitor to these and other symbols, including the remains of the gardens fishing Nhat Tan and Tay I Temple, one of three main pagodas dedicated to Goddess Lieu Hanh Crusader. On an island in West Lake and the Tran Quoc Pagoda.

Ninth Tran Quoc
A highlight of the Vietnamese Buddhist Tran Quoc Pagoda in Hanoi's oldest. Built in the sixth centurythe banks of the Red River was the pagoda to its present position because of erosion of the river bank deported. Awash with statues of value, but it also provides complicated steps and a Bodhi tree from a cutting of the original under which Gautama Buddha found enlightenment. Tran Quoc is clearly one of the most fascinating sights in Hanoi.

10th Hoa Lo ("fiery furnace") Prison
Only when we came to believe that all of Hanoi is considered tasteful imperial splendor, The Hoa Prison.Or what is left of it: Also known as the Hanoi Hilton, the prison was demolished most. The museum, now a charming shell in a macabre way. Posted by French settlers used for political prisoners, the prison was used later by North Vietnam for prisoners of war during the Vietnam War. Attractive gross.