Hanoi is relaxed and visitors are warmly received – you will not cause offence by accident easily. A handful of customs are worth knowing, mostly around temples, meals and showing respect to older people.<\/p>\n
Several of our routes pass temples and pagodas, such as Tran Quoc Pagoda on West Lake. Vietnam’s official tourism guidance asks visitors to dress modestly at religious sites – cover shoulders and knees – and to remove shoes and hats when entering a temple building. Even where a tour only stops outside for photos, it is respectful, and easier, to dress this way from the start.<\/p>\n
The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Ba Dinh Square is a place of national mourning, and its rules are stricter than at a pagoda. If you plan to visit on your own:<\/p>\n
More on what to pack for this in our what to wear<\/a> guide.<\/p>\n Meals are shared and sociable in Vietnam, and your guide will show you how each dish is eaten. A few customs are good to know:<\/p>\n Tipping is not expected in restaurants; see our money and tipping guide<\/a>. For food safety and dietary needs, see food on Hanoi tours<\/a>.<\/p>\n Vietnamese culture places great value on respect for elders and on “face” – keeping social harmony and not causing public embarrassment.<\/p>\n It is normal to remove your shoes when entering someone’s home, many guesthouses and homestays, some shops and most temple buildings. Look for a pile of shoes at the door or a low step, and follow what your host or those around you do. Slip-on shoes make this painless – handy on a day that includes a temple or a village home in Sapa.<\/p>\n Hanoi and Sapa are wonderfully photogenic, but a little courtesy matters:<\/p>\n Gentle bargaining is normal at markets and with street vendors, and not done at shops, cafes and restaurants with fixed prices. Keep it good-humoured:<\/p>\n On our tours:<\/strong> your guide is the easiest shortcut to getting this right – they will tell you when to take your shoes off, how a dish is eaten and whether a photo is welcome. Our Sapa guides wear their own ethnic dress, and on Hanoi jeep and Instagram tours you can add a guide or rider in a traditional ao dai. If you are unsure about anything cultural, just ask; nobody expects a visitor to know every custom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u8d8a\u5357\u6cb3\u5185\u4e0e\u6c99\u575d\u6587\u660e\u65c5\u6e38\u793c\u4eea\u5168\u6307\u5357\uff1a\u5bfa\u5e99\u4e0e\u80e1\u5fd7\u660e\u9675\u5893\u7740\u88c5\u89c4\u8303\u3001\u7b77\u5b50\u4e0e\u9910\u684c\u793c\u8282\u3001\u6253\u62db\u547c\u4e0e\u5c0a\u91cd\u957f\u8005\u3001\u62cd\u7167\u89c4\u8303\u3001\u8ba8\u4ef7\u8fd8\u4ef7\u53ca\u6838\u5fc3\u6587\u5316\u4e60\u4fd7\u3002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":367,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-379","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecotripasia.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecotripasia.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecotripasia.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecotripasia.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ecotripasia.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/379\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecotripasia.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecotripasia.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Dining and chopstick etiquette<\/h2>\n
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Greetings and showing respect<\/h2>\n
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Taking your shoes off<\/h2>\n
Photography etiquette<\/h2>\n
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Bargaining, markets and money manners<\/h2>\n
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A few more things worth knowing<\/h2>\n
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