Hanoi Travel News

A flower festival will be organised this summer in the Hanoi’s ancient Thang Long Imperial City to mark the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long- Hanoi.

Many religious monuments and temples, along with other infrastructure works in Hanoi, are in a race of thoughtless renovation and reconstruction to welcome Hanoi’s millennium anniversary by October of this year.

Hanoi’s Department of Industry and Trade is putting together five tours of the city’s traditional craft villages to mark the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

Together with the landscapes and historical sites; there are many types of intangible culture which create specific characteristics for Hanoi in general and the city tourism sector in particular.

A 100-minute gala to celebrate Hanoi’s 1000th anniversary will take place at the My Dinh National Stadium in the evening of October 10, with 10,000 artists.

Besides water puppetry, tourists to Hanoi can enjoy traditional cheo (traditional operetta) extracts, quan ho (love duets) and chau van.

The Thang Long-Hanoi International Tourism Festival will run from October 2-5 at the Bao Son Paradise Theme Park.

The Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade is conducting research on local craft villages to put together five tours for tourists to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

Park Chung-bae and his wife, who’ve rented a two-storey house in Ha Noi’s My Dinh Ward, said they visited the centuries-old Buoi Market in the capital to buy ornamental plants for their home.

Nearly 10,000 people will join a walk to the statue of King Ly Thai To on June 13 to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

On June the 8th, 2010, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Hanoi and Hanoi Theatre of Traditional Opera jointly piloted an art program: “Pilgrimage in Spring”.

A memorandum of understanding on tourism cooperation between Hanoi and Chengdu city of China’s Sichuan province was signed in Hanoi on June 9.

A memorandum of understanding on tourism cooperation between Hanoi and Chengdu city of China’s Sichuan province was signed in the capital city on June 9.

The capital city is working on a plan to choose meaningful gifts for guests who will attend the city’s 1,000th anniversary this October.