Hanoi, a city with more than a thousand of years hidden lots of charm, is always attractive to many people coming here. In these days traveling around Hanoi by bike and releasing your soul in the street corners is an unforgettable experience for everyone. Cycling to explore the landmarks in the heart of Hanoi is an exciting new experience. The slow rotations of the wheel will take you closer to the rhythm of the ancient Capital. No noise, no rush, and be workout, cycling around towns has become the pastime of visitors traveling to Hanoi. In your excursions around Hanoi, on an iron horseback, seeing the sunrise in the West Lake, the sunset on Long Bien Bridge, traveling Hanoi by bike on roads with full of yellow leaves or drinking a lemon tea cup in old town brings to you a very different Hanoi, strange and lovely.
Hoan Kiem Lake
Hoan Kiem Lake is the first destination you should go when coming to Hanoi. Cycling around Hoan Kiem Lake is a soothing experience for all those who first came to the capital. Here, outside the scenic streets, visitors can visit the Ngoc Son Temple, the small streets but bustling passers. In the early morning, you can feel a peaceful atmosphere with many elders taking exercise, and at night, you can find a colorful and busy place with a lot of people walking around and talking together.
Old Quarter area
Cycling a tour around the old quarter of Hanoi, you will be amazed by the daily life of the people here taking place in a slow motion, in an authentic and lively way instead of the noisy boisterous, and cramped alleys that you often see. Going around the old town by bike in the evening, you will enjoy a lot of delicious sidewalk food in different streets such as a mix of fruit in To Tich, beer, roasted birds in Ta Hien, boiled snails in Dinh Tien Hoang and so on.
Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum
Streets around the mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh President are great roads for those who want to explore Hanoi at night by bicycle. The roads around this place are surrounded by lots of green trees bringing fresh air that rarely has in other places in the capital. Riding around here, you can admire the beauty of the mausoleum at night or pictures of people relaxing by walking is also a slow motion reflecting the most vivid life in Hanoi.
Long Bien Bridge
Cycling on the iron bridge over hundred years old, sometimes you will be startled by the trains running in front of you, which shakes the bridge. It is also an interesting experience in your trips. Slowly according to each beat of rotation, you will have quiet moments towards an immense, nostalgic and serene space. In the evening, stop riding to see the sunset view, and wait until the city becomes sparkling when lighting up will give you a great feeling about a different scene in Hanoi.
West Lake
In the evening, West Lake is also a romantic place for couples in love. In a certain beautiful day, try biking together around the lake, you will feel your soul like being rejuvenated. If you want to stop longer here, just park on Xuan Dieu, Ngoc Van, Dang Thai Mai street, enter the snail, coffee, iced tea stores in the lakeside, and enjoy a pleasant cool breeze from the immense water.
Beautiful streets in the city center
Cycling between the two rows of old trees on Phan Dinh Phung, Tran Phu, Hoang Dieu, Thanh Nien streets, the most beautiful streets in the capital, you will feel the inherent romance and charm of Hanoi. You not only enjoy the fresh air but also can watch a lot of old villas built from French colonial and the famous buildings such as Cua Bac church, Thang Long imperial citadel, Tran Quoc Pagoda on the way of discovering.
Kim Ma Street
Kim Ma is named the “the most romantic street in Hanoi” with very strange parallel road. On this road, whether winter or summer, although leafless or green trees also have romantic and poetic features separately. In the spring, the road is covered with red buds of Lagerstroemia trees, highlighting in the blue sky. In the summer, cool green grassland becomes brilliant and fresh in the sunshine. In the autumn, fallen leaves fill the road. And even in the cold winter days, the spindly trees also attracts many young couples cycling here.
The middle land of Red River
From the middle of the Long Bien Bridge, going down iron stairs, you will discover a completely different Hanoi from what is called noisy and gaudy place of a capital, it is the middle land of Red river. The middle land is the familiar name for a strip of fertile alluvial land emerged in the middle of the Red River, the part flowing through Hanoi (from Chuong Duong Bridge, Phuc Tan ward, Hoan Kiem to Nhat Tan Ward, Tay Ho). It has become so familiar to young people because of the peaceful and quiet beauty, a rare liberal airspace in the heart of Hanoi. Cycling here, when you are admired the romantic and pristine views with long sandbanks, immense green lawns, the white bushes of reeds, green vegetable fields, the floating boats on the water, between the blue clouds and rich crops, you will find that Hanoi is beautiful more than ever.
