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Ngoc Son temple is on a small island on Hoan Kiem Lake in the center of Hanoi, Vietnam.
It hosts a mumified giant turtle which allegedly came out of this same lake several decades ago.
The 18th-century Ngoc Son Temple is located on a small island of picturesque Hoan Kiem Lake, in Hanoi...
Taken from the bridge to the Ngoc Son temple on the Hoan Kiem lake just in the center of Hanoi, Vietn...
Ho Hoan Kiem street is probably the shortest street in Hanoi, 52m long street, it is connecting Cau G...
This is the historical central area of Hanoi, capital of Hanoi.
Hanoi estimated population 3,398,889 (2007), is the capital and second-largest city of Vietnam. From 1010 until 1802, with a few brief interruptions, it was the political centre of an independent Vietnam. It was eclipsed by Huế during the Nguyen Dynasty as the capital of Vietnam, but Hanoi served as the capital of French Indochina from 1887 to 1954. From 1954 to 1976, it was the capital of North Vietnam.