Documents, photographs and memorabilia of American prisoners of war went on show at Tim Lai Ky Uc (Finding Memories) in Hoa Lo Prison on November 29 and will run until February, 2018.
Visitors could get a look back at the glorious days of Hanoi in the "Dien Bien Phu battlefield in the air" at the exhibition "Recalling memories" in Hoa Lo prison relic site.
Visitors to Hanoi will have a chance to experience the “golden tour” which was launched on October 10, connecting hotels, restaurants, shopping centres and the most popular tourist destinations in the capital city.
The noble sacrifices of Vietnamese wars heroes and martyrs, who shed blood for national freedom and independence, are being honoured at an exhibition at Hoa Lo Prison Museum in downtown Hanoi.
The Management Board of the Hoa Lo Prison relic site on January 17 received valuable items from the family of US war veteran Walter Eugene Wilber for the second time.
Charles Jackson, a US veteran and prisoner during the war in Vietnam, expressed his wish to find his war-time rescuers during a meeting with the Vietnam-US Society (VUS) on January 11.
The Voice of Vietnam (VOV) held a ceremony in Hanoi on December 19 to mark 70 years since it spread broadcast President Ho Chi Minh’s appeal for National Resistance Day.
The Hoa Lo Prison historical relic site in Hanoi on August 15 received valuable remembrances from the family of Water Eugene Wilber, a US pilot who was detained in the prison from 1968 to 1973.
Nearly 200 photos, documents and objects capturing the life and revolutionary cause of five former Party General Secretaries are being introduced to the public at an exhibition in the Hoa Lo prison.
Website SmarterTravel has listed nine reasons explaining why Vietnam is
becoming the best place to go in Southeast Asia, including food,
language, hospitality, history and amazing sites.
Hanoi welcomed 270,000 domestic tourists and 70,083 foreign tourists
during the nine-day lunar New Year holiday (February 15-23), up 8
percent from the same period last year.
A photograph exhibition featuring generations of Hoa Lo revolutionary
prisoners was launched in Hanoi on September 30 to mark the 60 th
anniversary of the capital’s Liberation Day (October 10).
President Truong Tan Sang has said the combat spirit and sacrifice of
revolutionary soldiers who were once held at Hoa Lo Prison in Hanoi are
everlasting examples in the cause of national construction and defence.
Hanoi welcomed 4.87 million domestic tourists and 705,000 foreign
arrivals in the first quarter of 2014, up 8 percent and 15 percent
respectively from the same period last year.
Hanoi’s electric buggy service has carried more than 1 million tourists
on tours around the capital’s Old Quarter and Hoan Kiem Lake in the
heart of the city over the past three years, overtaking the traditional
cyclo as the ride of choice for visitors.
Hanoi’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism plans to upgrade the
historical relic sites of Hoan Kiem Lake, The Temple of Literature and
Hoa Lo Prison.
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