This Capital city has a lot of interesting offers to travellers such as Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, One Pillar Pagoda, Ethnology museum, Hoan Kiem (Restored Sword) lake, Water puppet show, old quarter as well as handicraft villages as Bat Trang ceramic village and Van Phuc silk village.

The Vietnamese nation was born among the lagoons and marshes of the Red River Delta around 4000 years ago, and for most of its independent existence, it has been ruled from the area of present-day Hanoi. A village existed here at least as early as the 3rd century AD, and a defensive citadel was established in the 8th century. The official origins of this great capital city go back to the year 1010.  According to legend, while the new king, Ly Thai To, was in his royal barge on the river, he saw a golden dragon fly up towards the heavens.  This was a good omen, so he moved his court from Hoa Lu to here, renaming his new capital city, Thang Long, “City of the Rising Dragon”. The heart of Thanh Long Citadel was the king’s sanctuary in the ‘Forbidden City’, but a growing collection of villages of commoners grew up around the walls. There were more name changes over the centuries, and in 1802, the Nguyen dynasty moved their capital from here to the central city of Hue. In 1831, Emperor Minh Mang changed the name of the former royal capital to ‘Ha Noi’ - “City in a bend of the River”. While Ha Noi was no longer home to royalty, it was destined to soon become an important political centre again.