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Archaeological site in Vietnam

Xuân La, Hanoi

Xuân La is an archaeological site in Tây Hồ District of Hanoi, near ancient Hà Đông in the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam.

Xuân La, Hanoi
Xuân La, Hanoi · Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (CC BY 2.0)
The place

Xuân La is an archaeological site in Tây Hồ District of Hanoi, near ancient Hà Đông in the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam. Excavations there yielded a number of coffins containing relics of the Bronze Age Đông Sơn culture.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Xuân La, Hanoi

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Lotte Center Hanoi

    Lotte Center Hanoi is a skyscraper in Ba Đình district, Hanoi, Vietnam. Completed on 2 September 2014, the tower has 65 floors.

    3.8 km · skyscraper in Hanoi, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Trấn Quốc Pagoda

    Trấn Quốc Pagoda, the oldest Buddhist temple in Hanoi, is located on a small island near the southeastern shore of Hanoi's West Lake, Vietnam.

    3.8 km · Buddhist temple in Hanoi · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Nhật Tân Bridge

    The Nhật Tân Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge crossing the Red River in Hanoi, inaugurated on 4 January 2015. It forms part of a new six-lane highway linking Hanoi and Noi Bai International Airport.

    3.4 km · bridge in Vietnam · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    West Lake

    West Lake is the biggest freshwater lake of Hanoi, Vietnam, located northwest of the city center. With a shore length of 17 kilometres and 500 hectares in area, this is the largest lake of the capital and a popular place for recreation with many surrounding gardens, hotels and villas.

    1.9 km · lake in Hanoi, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Vietnam Museum of Ethnology

    The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology is a museum in Hanoi, Vietnam, which focuses on the 54 officially recognised ethnic groups in Vietnam. It is located on a 43,799-square-metre property in the Cầu Giấy District, about 8 km from the city center.

    2.9 km · museum in Hanoi, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology

    The Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology is the largest and most prominent research institute in Vietnam. It was founded on 20 May 1975 as the Vietnam Academy of Science, and subsequently assumed its current name in 2008.

    2.1 km · largest and most prominent research institute in Vietnam · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    VNU University of Medicine and Pharmacy

    VNU University of Medicine and Pharmacy is a university specializing in medicine and pharmacy in Vietnam, a member of Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

    3.7 km · Public university in Vietnam · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Le Quy Don Technical University

    Le Quy Don Technical University, is a university in Vietnam. It was founded in 1966 and is one of the Vietnam's national key universities.

    2.8 km · higher education institute in Hanoi, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    University of Languages and International Studies

    VNU University of Languages and International Studies, or Hanoi University of Languages and International Studies, is one of the nine colleges that comprise Vietnam National University, Hanoi. The school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in pedagogy and linguistic studies in Arabic, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, and Southeast Asian.

    3.8 km · university of linguistic studies located at VNU Cau Giay campus at Hanoi · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Huu Tiep Lake

    Hữu Tiệp Lake is a small artificial freshwater lake located in Ngọc Hà Ward, Hanoi. The lake was once part of a river.

    3.8 km · Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Xuân La, Hanoi

Airports
Noi Bai (HAN), 17 km · Cat Bi (HPH), 99 km · Nanning Wuxu (NNG), 299 km
Stations
Hanoi Vietnam National University Station, 4 km · Chùa Hà railway station, 3.6 km
  • Haiphong (Hai An) → Xuân La, Hanoi
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · ₫106,000–142,000
  • Da Nang → Xuân La, Hanoi
    580 km · quickest by air, 6h 6m · ₫1,889,810–2,909,970
  • Nanning (Jiangnan) → Xuân La, Hanoi
    313 km · quickest by road, 6h 15m · ¥150–200
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No local-transport research exists yet for Xuân La, Hanoi

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Xuân La, Hanoi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBy shuttle bus – (It is not clear if these are still running as of June 2022.) Hourly between the airport and the Tickets at the airport are sold in the building in front of which the minibuses park, or you can give the fare directly to the driver.
  • Go nextThe Sapa mountain region close to the Chinese border, home to ethnic minorities, gorgeous mountain scenery, and trekking paths connecting many tiny mountain villages, is the second-most popular trip.
  • Go next320 km northwest from the capital, Sapa is accessible by direct private bus services from Hanoi, which now only takes 5h30 thanks to excellent new highways; or by 8-hour train journey from Hanoi Station to Lao Cai, then onward by minibus or hired motorbike.
  • Go nextTam Coc/Hoa Lu in Ninh Binh Province, is a day trip is combining heritage tourism and natural landscape tourism.

From Wikivoyage: Hanoi, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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  2. 02
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  3. 03
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  5. 05
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Around it

Next door to Xuân La, Hanoi

Xuân La, Hanoi is 6 km from Hanoi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.