{"id":80,"date":"2026-08-05T08:53:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T08:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/?touriza_city=hanoi"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:19:38","slug":"hanoi","status":"publish","type":"touriza_city","link":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/?touriza_city=hanoi","title":{"rendered":"Hanoi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why go<\/h2>\n<p>Hanoi is quieter and more layered than Ho Chi Minh City: French villas, colonial railway lines running between houses, and an Old Quarter where each street once sold one trade and several still do.<\/p>\n<h2>Five things to do<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"rule-list\">\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">01<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Ph\u1edf for breakfast<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Standing, before 8am, at a street kitchen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">02<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Ho\u00e0n Ki\u1ebfm at dawn<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Tai chi around the lake.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">03<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Temple of Literature<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Vietnam&#39;s first university, founded 1070.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">04<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>B\u00fan ch\u1ea3 in a plastic chair<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Grilled pork, herbs, dipping broth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">05<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Ceramic mosaic river wall<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Four kilometres of it, walkable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Neighbourhoods<\/h2>\n<div class=\"grid g2\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">Old Quarter<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">Thirty-six guild streets, still specialised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">French Quarter<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">Opera house, boulevards, the old prison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">T\u00e2y H\u1ed3<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">West Lake, temples and expat caf\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">Long Bi\u00ean<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">An Eiffel-era bridge and a riverside market at 3am.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Getting around<\/h2>\n<p>Buy the transport card on arrival \u2014 every city on this list has one, and it is cheaper than single fares within about four journeys. Walking covers more than the map suggests: most of the districts above are within thirty minutes of each other on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Taxis and ride apps are worth it late at night and when you are carrying luggage. Everything else is faster on the metro, the tram or the ferry, in that order.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to eat<\/h2>\n<p>The rule that holds in Hanoi is the rule that holds everywhere: eat at the busy place, at the hour the locals eat, and order the thing the kitchen makes most of. Reserve for dinner in the districts above; lunch rarely needs it.<\/p>\n<h2>Two days here<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Morning: Ph\u1edf for breakfast<\/li>\n<li>Afternoon: walk Old Quarter<\/li>\n<li>Evening: Temple of Literature<\/li>\n<li>Day two: Ceramic mosaic river wall<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thousand years old and still built around its lakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"touriza_continent":[2],"touriza_theme":[],"class_list":["post-80","touriza_city","type-touriza_city","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","touriza_continent-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/touriza_city"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city\/80\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"touriza_continent","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftouriza_continent&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"touriza_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftouriza_theme&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}