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Hanoi rewards visitors who ride between neighbourhoods and walk the sights, and the countryside within a day’s ride adds pagodas, craft villages, lakes and mountains.
Hanoi Routes & Sightseeing
Riding a motorbike is still the fastest and cheapest way to see Hanoi, but “cheap” only works if you know what things actually…
Read guide: A Hanoi Motorbike Day Budget: Fuel, Parking and Food WorksheetHanoi Routes & Sightseeing
Hanoi is one of the easiest cities in Southeast Asia to buy motorbike gear. Helmets, gloves, jackets, rain layers — all of it…
Read guide: Shopping for Riding Gear in Hanoi: Check Fit Before BuyingHanoi Routes & Sightseeing
Hanoi is one of Southeast Asia’s most photogenic cities for architecture — a layer cake of French colonial facades, 19th-century tube houses, thousand-year-old…
Read guide: A Hanoi Architecture Photo Route: Stop, Park and Walk Between ShotsHanoi Routes & Sightseeing
Hanoi makes vegetarian eating easy — the Buddhist “ăn chay” tradition means almost every neighborhood has a tofu-and-rice shop, a buffet counter, or…
Read guide: A Vegetarian Lunch Route in Hanoi: Parking Before Choosing the StopHanoi Routes & Sightseeing
A Hanoi coffee crawl by motorbike is easier when you plan where to leave the bike before choosing each stop. Confirm that the…
Read guide: Hanoi Coffee Stops by Motorbike: A Route Built Around Legal ParkingHanoi Routes & Sightseeing
If you live or ride on the Gia Lam side of Hanoi, the Red River is the single biggest fact of your daily…
Read guide: Gia Lam to Central Hanoi: Compare Legal River Crossings for MotorbikesHanoi Routes & Sightseeing
In December 1972, American B-52 bombers flew the largest bombing campaign of the Vietnam War over Hanoi, and Hanoi shot enough of them…
Read guide: B52 Victory Museum by Motorbike: A Small Hanoi History RouteHanoi Routes & Sightseeing
Hanoi has a street where the entire point is standing still. Book Street — Pho Sach, on December 19 Street just southwest of…
Read guide: Hanoi Book Street by Motorbike: Parking and Nearby StopsHanoi Routes & Sightseeing
Hanoi’s biggest flower market does not open when the city wakes up — it closes when the city wakes up. Quang Ba Flower…
Read guide: Quang Ba Flower Market by Motorbike: Early-Hour Planning and ParkingHanoi Routes & Sightseeing
Dong Xuan Market is where Hanoi shops when Hanoi is actually shopping. It is the city’s oldest and largest covered market — a…
Read guide: Dong Xuan Market by Motorbike: Shopping, Parking and Carrying Purchases09:00–21:00 daily
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