🌙 HANOI SECRET LIFE EXPERIENCE – A HIDDEN CITY TOUR
“Walk – Taste – Create – Connect”
Duration: 4–5 hours
Transport: Jeep / Vespa / Electric car / Walking
Special highlight: Meet artisans – enter heritage homes – explore unseen alleys – experience real local life
🔶 1. HANOI AWAKENS – MORNING RITUAL EXPERIENCE (45 min)
• Begin your journey at 7:00 AM, when Hanoi is calm, quiet, and beautifully authentic.
• Visit a local morning market where residents buy fresh flowers, snacks, and breakfast.
• Enjoy an authentic Hanoi-style breakfast: sticky rice, bánh mì, pho, or bún riêu.
• Sip a cup of morning tea, a tradition rooted in the post-war era.
👉 A rare chance to witness the real rhythm of Hanoi – peaceful, local, and untouched by tourism.
🔶 2. HIDDEN HERITAGE WALK – EXPLORING SECRET SPACES (1 hour)
Enter into private historic houses rarely accessible to tourists:
• A 100-year-old wooden house preserved in its original form inside a tiny alley
• A timeworn French villa with antique interiors and fascinating family stories
• Hear tales of old Hanoi, daily life, and the cultural layers behind the city
👉 This is what makes the tour truly unique: meeting homeowners, hearing their stories, stepping into real living heritage.
🔶 3. HANDS-ON ART WORKSHOP – CREATE WITH ARTISANS (1 hour)
Guests choose one of the following cultural workshops:
Hand-painting traditional paper fans with a master artisan
Printing miniature Đông Hồ folk art using carved woodblocks
Shaping mini Bát Tràng ceramics with a local craftsman
• Learn the craft, hear the history, and take your handmade creation home.
👉 A deeply personal cultural experience — a piece of Hanoi you can hold in your hands.
🔶 4. BACKSTREET SAFARI – HANOI’S HIDDEN LANES (45 min)
Travel by Jeep or Vespa through places tourists never reach:
• Narrow back alleys only 1 meter wide
• Old Soviet-style apartment blocks
• The famous “train-track neighborhood”
• Local tea stalls and vintage street cafés
👉 This segment delivers the biggest “WOW” factor — raw, real, unscripted Hanoi.
🔶 5. HANOI TASTING TABLE – A SECRET DINING STOP (45 min)
Enjoy lunch at a hidden, no-sign local restaurant known only to insiders:
• Charcoal-grilled chả
• Claypot fish noodles
• Crispy crab spring rolls
• Traditional Hanoi-style desserts
• Each dish comes with stories of its origin and why locals are so particular about flavor.
🔶 6. CULTURE TALK & SIGNATURE COFFEE (30 min)
• Taste the original Hanoi Egg Coffee or the rising trend: Salt Coffee.
• Meet a “local storyteller” who shares insights into Hanoi life, history, art, and culture.
• Open conversation – guests can ask anything about Hanoi.
🔶 7. PHOTO MOMENTS – RITUALS & MEMORIES
• Your guide captures beautiful photos in alleys, heritage houses, and beside vintage Jeeps.
• Guests receive a digital photo album after the tour.
💎 WHY THIS TOUR IS TRULY UNIQUE
✓ Not sightseeing – but living like a true Hanoian
✓ Meet real people, listen to real stories
✓ Access to private heritage homes
✓ Personalized cultural workshops
✓ Designed for creative travelers, premium guests, Europe/US markets
