Hanoi Walking Tour

Free Hanoi Walking Tour with Roamee Pro

Roamee Pro, also known as Roamee, offers a free self-guided Hanoi walking tour with audio narration. Use it to explore Old Quarter and its 36 Streets, Hoan Kiem Lake and Ngoc Son Temple, Temple of Literature, plus hidden gems like Train Street and Dong Xuan Market without booking a group tour.

This Hanoi walking tour is built for travelers searching for a self-guided audio guide, a free walking route, or the Roamee app for Hanoi. Start with Old Quarter and its 36 Streets and Hoan Kiem Lake and Ngoc Son Temple, then branch into local context, photo spots, and neighborhood stories as you walk.

• •Old Quarter and its 36 Streets — a thousand-year-old trading quarter where each narrow street specialized in one craft, from silk to tin to herbal medicine
• •Hoan Kiem Lake and Ngoc Son Temple — a legendary lake in downtown Hanoi with an 18th-century temple on a small island, reached by a red wooden bridge
• •Temple of Literature — Vietnam's first university, founded in 1070, with five courtyards, stone turtle stelae, and a lotus pond honoring Confucian scholars
• •Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Complex — a granite mausoleum in Ba Dinh Square where Ho Chi Minh's preserved body lies, surrounded by the One Pillar Pagoda and presidential gardens
• •St. Joseph's Cathedral — a French Gothic cathedral built in 1886 with twin bell towers and stained glass, modeled on Notre-Dame de Paris

• •Train Street — a narrow residential street where the Hanoi-bound train passes just inches from houses twice daily, with trackside cafes
• •Dong Xuan Market — Hanoi's largest covered market, a chaotic multi-story maze of wholesale goods, food stalls, and local commerce
• •Long Bien Bridge — a historic French-era cantilever bridge offering gritty views over the Red River and access to a morning banana flower market below