The Old Quarter

Hanoi’s Old Quarter is an enchanting maze of 36 narrow streets named after the products that were traditionally sold here - such as ‘paper street and medicine’ street - and home to the amazing tunnel houses which have a very narrow frontage hiding very long and deep rooms. Now the streets are more likely to have a mix of shops including places selling household items, silk clothes, funerary items and traditional medicine. Interspersed will be bars, boutique hotels and even karaoke clubs. A great way to see the Old Quarter is to cruise through the chaotic traffic in a cyclo.