Space to experience the surreal haunting past
Hoa Lo Prison Night Tour
For a long time, Hoa Lo Prison has been a relic filled with historical events and haunting past moments that many curious people want to explore. However, the reputation here has really exploded in recent years, becoming a “popular tourist phenomenon” especially among young people.
Simply derived from posts on social networks, but thanks to the mixing of information and historical events of this place combined with interesting and trendy ways of transmission, more and more young people are curious and determined to book a ticket to this “hell on earth”.
Photo: Hoa Lo prison ruins
Photo: Hoa Lo prison ruins
Located exclusively on Hoa Lo street in Tran Hung Dao ward, Hoan Kiem district, Hoa Lo Prison relic was built by the French in 1896, once a place where thousands of soldiers and revolutionary activists were imprisoned in Vietnam. . The original design of the prison to hold 450 people, but actually holds up to 2,000 people.
Notably, the decision to open a tour to explore the prison at night from October 2020 until now has caused the number of tourists to register to visit a sudden increase, the tours are always in a state of “sold out”. The night tour starts at 7:00 am, ends at 8:30 am and is usually held every Friday and Saturday. Currently, tours to explore the ruins of Hoa Lo Prison at night have been fully booked until the end of May and many people are still anxiously waiting for the day they can successfully book.
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The night tour at Hoa Lo Prison has been extremely interested by young people in recent times (Photo: New Hanoi)
Attracting visitors is one thing, but even the real experience of this tour is meticulously designed, helping visitors stimulate a variety of senses to “relive” the history of the past years. . The prison space is dark and stuffy with the glimmer of light falling down along with the sound, the music rushing… making the audience unable to help but be haunted. With the form of historical exploitation by topic, up to now, the tour program has had two themes serving the public: Sacred Night 1: Shining Vietnamese spirit and Sacred Night 2: Living like flowers. Ticket price for this tour is 299,000 VND/pax.
Decoding Thang Long Imperial Citadel
Most recently, following the success of Hoa Lo Prison Relic, the land of Thang Long Kinh Ky continues to successfully attract visitors to the journey of experiencing the night tour “Deciphering the Thang Long Imperial Citadel” that started in September. on the occasion of the last holiday April 30 and May 1.
In the world, it is very rare that the capital of a country still preserves a population of relics and relics with a long history and culture and has overlapping cultural layers, one after another. quite continuously like that. But it is thanks to the improvements in the way the tour is operated that the experience of this relic has been raised to a new level.
There is a route starting from Doan Mon – the door leading to the Forbidden City, where the king lived and worked in the past, 1.5 hours of decoding tour will help visitors live the mysterious royal palace space from ancient times, interact with palace ladies and guards in ancient costumes, enjoy lotus tea, royal lotus jam, enjoy the royal dance right on the unique archaeological remains; admire the precious artifacts and antiquities found at the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long in the display house with the theme “Thang Long Hanoi – A thousand-year history from the ground”, offering incense in memory of the ancestors at the palace. Dear Thien.
This place is a regal, mysterious and strangely attractive space that visitors only have the opportunity to experience through movies.
Another special feature that makes this tour both attractive and interesting with details that stimulate visitors to discover more about Vietnamese history is that at the end of the experience journey at the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long, people will visit Thang Long Imperial Citadel. Join a game of deciphering the Imperial Citadel’s secret.
Accordingly, some typical artifacts of the Imperial Citadel will be shown by laser on the foundations of archaeological remains or on the ancient river, for visitors to review the knowledge and information acquired while experiencing and answers. Correct decoding, visitors will receive meaningful souvenirs of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long.
Each week, the tour to explore the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long operates 2 sessions, on Friday and Saturday night. The tour price is 200,000 VND/person.
Cycling to explore the four towns of Thang Long
Thang Long Tu Tran includes: Bach Ma Temple, Voi Phuc Temple, Kim Lien Temple and Quan Thanh Temple. These are 4 sacred temples worshiping 4 gods who guarded 4 arterial positions in the east, west, south and north of the ancient Thang Long citadel.
Thang Long Tu Tran is the place to keep many important historical vestiges of ancient Hanoi
In this tour, visitors will learn the history, combine relaxing cycling to all 4 directions of Hanoi, clearly experience the blend between the ancient features of the monuments and the excitement and modernity. of the bustling city. Starting from Long Bien bridge, passing Dong Tran – Bach Ma temple on Hang Buom street in the center of Hanoi’s old town, continuing to Nam Tran – Kim Lien temple in Dong Da district, Voi Phuc temple in Ba Dinh district, temple Quan Thanh near West Lake. Each place worships a guardian deity with interesting historical details that make this cycling experience very useful, full of knowledge and extremely novel.
The type of bicycle used is also a power-assisted vehicle, which can be pedaled normally or use electric power to assist guests when cycling uphill, long distances (Photo: VOV)
After visiting the four towns, visitors will be taken to the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long to visit and watch the water puppet show. This is also one of the very unique national intangible cultural heritages that every Vietnamese should know and explore.
The total travel time of this tour takes about 6 hours, of which the total cycling distance is about 20 km. Currently, the tour price is at 1.2 million VND/person, attracting a lot of foreigners and domestic tourists to explore especially on weekends.
Source: Compilation
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