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9 of the Best things to do in Hanoi (Part 1)
Have you ever wondered what makes Hanoi such a Popular destination for travellers from around the world?
1. Wander the Old Quarter
Chinese shop houses, a clutter of streetside markets hawking everything from handicrafts and wriggling snakehead fish to radishes and paper lanterns, roadside cafés serving treacle-black Vietnamese coffee, backpacker bars, massage spas… Hanoi’s Old Quarter is a mesmerising maze.
It’s been the centre of city commerce for centuries, and streets are still named after the goods that were once sold there. Hang Bac for instance means Silver Street and Hang Gai, Silk Street. The best way to see the area is to get lost in the Brownian motion, stopping for coffee or cooling beer along the way or lunching streetside on Pho or Bun Cha.
2. Visit the French Quarter
With its broad, tree-lined boulevards, Belle Epoque mansions and grand Opera House, the French Quarter stands in opulent, colonial contrast to the old part of town. This is where the city’s Grand Dame hotel, the Sofitel sits in anachronistic Indochine splendour, ceiling fans wafting, Vietnamese staff mouthing French and the bar looking like a period film set.
Close by is St. Joseph’s Cathedral – a gaudy, mini Notre Dame built on the site of the ruined Báo Thiên Pagoda, once home to the huge Chuong Giác Thế bell ‘that awakens all the people of the world’ that reputedly weighed some 12,000 kg. Sacked by the Chinese army in the 15th century, nothing remains of the what was once part of the Four Great Treasures of Annam.
Vietnam’s colonial history can be explored here, too. Hundreds of Viet Minh fighters were tortured and guillotined in French Quarter’s Hoa Lo Prison Museum. In 1945, Do Muoi (later Secretary General of the Communist Party) escaped through the sewer system, together with 100 fellow prisoners. In the Vietnam War, American prisoners, including senator John McCain, were kept here, with Hoa Lo earning the nickname ‘The Hanoi Hilton’.
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