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Are you a BIG shopper? Are you fond of local artifacts? Check up the Vietnamese galleries and craft shops after visiting art museums and cottage villages surrounding the capital city. Day 01: Arrival Hanoi (Dinner) Arrive in Hanoi. Greeted by your guide at the airport. Transfer to your hotel in the city centre for check-in. Dinner with a 6-century-old specialties of Hanoi: rice vermicelli served with grilled fish and peanut. You must visit at least a museum in Hanoi before heading to the local shops. Historical Museum, Fine Arts Museum and Museum of Ethnology are highly recommended. Let's be busy with your shopping bags today. The galleries in Hanoi are featured by lacquer ware and lacquered pictures, oil paintings, silk paintings and traditional paintings drawn or woodblock-printed on "giay do", a special kind of paper made traditionally from rice powder, shell, straw and other ingredients. The Craft and Boutique Shops, especially in the Old Quarter, offer refined collections of Vietnamese and Chinese silks and linen, handicrafts and decorative fabrics of the hill tribal people, embroidery and beading products, counterfeit antiques and normal utensils made of traditional materials including silver, bamboo, wood and rattan. Day 04: Depart Hanoi (Breakfast) Certainly, you need time to pack the results of your shopping tour until your tour guide arrive and accompany you to Noi Bai airport for the onward flight. End of the tour. Tour Duration: 4 Days / 3 Nights |