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2023

Travelling to Hanoi Zoo: Address, ticket price 2023 and travel experience

Posted By : Threeland Travel / Hanoi-Travel Tips

Hanoi Zoo, also known as Thu Le Park. This is the place to nurture and preserve hundreds of different types of animals. Coming here, visitors can not only visit the zoo but also participate in interesting games.

Hanoi Zoo is an attractive destination when traveling to Hanoi. Especially on weekends or summer vacation, parents and teachers often let their children and children come here to visit and explore. Let's find out the address, experience of visiting ... the zoo with Threeland Travel in the article below.

1. About Hanoi Zoo

Hanoi Zoo is one of the most attractive children's play areas in Hanoi. Especially on holidays, weekends or summer holidays, the zoo in Hanoi is always crowded and full of people to visit. Most visitors are parents who take their children to see the zoo or teachers who take students to visit, combined with learning.

1.1. Where is Hanoi Zoo? How to move

Where is the address of Hanoi Zoo? Is it easy to find and easy to navigate? Zoo in Hanoi is located in Thu Le ward of Ba Dinh district. The zoo has 3 gates that visitors can enter located on the road surface: Grapefruit, Kim Ma and Nguyen Van Ngoc. According to the sightseeing experience of many tourists, going to the gate located on Buoi Street is the largest and easiest to go.

With a favorable geographical location located in the heart of Hanoi, if you are planning to visit Thu Le Park, you can choose the following two means of transportation:

  • Bus: There are many bus routes that go through the zoo such as: 09, 49, 38, 34. 32, 28, 27, 25. Depending on where you start going, you will choose a reasonable bus route. best. Taking the bus has the advantage of being safe and you will save money.
  • Motorbike/car: If you ride a motorbike or a car, you can refer to the route that goes through Lang, Cau Giay or Kim Ma streets to reach the cypress garden the fastest. In the zoo, there is a place to park motorbikes, and if you go by car, you can park your car in the parking lot opposite the University of Transport.

1.2. Opening hours and ticket prices Hanoi Zoo

Tickets to Hanoi Zoo include tickets for adults and tickets for children:

  • Adults: 30,000 VND/ticket
  • Children under 1.3m: 20,000 VND/ticket

Fares may change from time to time, so you should update the fare before coming. The opening time of Hanoi Zoo is from 8:00 to 18:00 every day of the week, so you can arrange a reasonable time to visit.

2. What does Hanoi Zoo have?

With an area of ​​up to 28 hectares, Thu Le Park after 2 years of construction has officially opened and welcomed guests to this day. After many renovations, this is a destination with many interesting entertainment and sightseeing items for visitors.

2.1. View the zoo with a lot of animals

When you come to the zoo, you will be able to visit many different animals, especially the little ones will be very interested and excited.

The common roof of the diversity of animals
Zoos are considered as the common roof of animals. It has many animals from Vietnam, from the world and some rare species listed in the Red Book of Vietnam such as Indochinese tiger, fire leopard, leopard...

Home to many animals of historical significance
The zoo also owns many animals of special historical significance. These can be mentioned as: Vientiane deer given to him by Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, a pair of pythons given to him by General Vo Nguyen Giap or a pair of Japanese cranes personally sent to Uncle Ho by the late Prime Minister of North Korea.

Animal subdivisions are divided by species
To make it more convenient for observation and sightseeing, the zoo in Hanoi consists of 3 main areas:

  • Reptile area: There are more than 35 different species of reptiles such as crocodiles, iguanas, snakes, pythons...
  • Bird area: With 50 diverse and colorful bird species such as storks, starlings, cranes, storks, lovebirds...
  • Animal area: Dubbed the king of the mountains and forests with lions, leopards, bears...

2.2. Take part in exciting games at the terrestrial amusement park

Not only can visit the diversity of animals, visitors to the autumn garden can also be immersed in the games on land. Some games for the little ones such as: painting, painting, tram train... Thrilling games such as: The haunted house of Thu Le park or watching 5D, 6D movies...

2.3. Discover exciting underwater games

The map of Hanoi Zoo not only has a zoo, a terrestrial game area but also interesting underwater games. You can choose to ride ducks, water balloons... to experience.

3. Eating experience when going to Hanoi Zoo

In the zoo, there are many shops, food and drink stalls serving visitors. In order for the tour to be complete, if you have a need for food, you should note:

  • You can eat and drink at the mobile stalls in the park, but the price is quite expensive, you should ask the price before eating.
  • Should bring snacks, drinking water to the park to use.
  • Visit restaurants and restaurants near Hanoi Zoo such as: Bun Cha Ba Thanh, Pho Bat Dan...

4. Some notes when visiting Hanoi Zoo

Families or groups coming to the zoo can keep a few notes to make the trip complete:

  • Limit standing too close to the protective fence, do not tease or provoke animals.
  • Always hold hands, follow the children closely to avoid getting lost.
  • Take care of your personal belongings.
  • Actively bring food, water, umbrella, hat or sunscreen.

5. Attractions near Thu Le Park

Within a radius of 5km, in addition to Thu Le Park, you can combine visiting other tourist attractions to know and explore more attractive places. Some attractions near the zoo attract visitors such as:

5.1. Hanoi Botanical Garden

Botanical Garden is like a "green lung of the city", so coming here you will enjoy the fresh, peaceful and relaxed air. Coming to Hanoi Botanical Garden, you will be able to visit a diverse flora and fauna ecosystem.

5.2. Hanoi flagpole

If you want to visit the historical vestiges of the past, do not miss the Hanoi Flag Tower. Not far from Hanoi Zoo, the Hanoi flagpole is considered a symbol of the country of thousands of years of civilization. You should come here at 8:00 am - 5:00 pm is the opening time to visit.

5.3. Hoa Lo Prison Relic

Hoa Lo Prison is a place to recreate the painful images of prisoners held at Hoa Lo during the resistance war against the French colonialists. At Hoa Lo Prison, there will be a map for each area and a voiceover station (the voiceover station you will rent in addition to the entrance fee" to be able to hear and better understand what more than 500 inmates have to go through. 

5.4. Imperial Citadel of Thang Long

Thang Long Imperial Citadel is also an ideal destination for tourists who want to visit and learn the history of the Vietnamese nation. This is a massive architectural work, a cultural symbol of Hanoi capital. In Thang Long Imperial Citadel, you can visit Hanoi flagpole, North gate, Kinh Thien Palace...

Travelling to Hanoi Zoo above that have enough informations from the way, the areas, the food… the above will definitely help visitors when they intend to come here. This is also an ideal destination for you to enjoy the fresh space of nature and trees. In addition, do not forget to explore many other zoos around Vietnam.

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