Walk the guild streets of the Old Quarter

Streets still named for their trade

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Hazy cityscape viewed from high vantage point, urban skyline blending into overcast sky — PiktourUK · CC BY 2.0

Weathered yellow-walled café interior with exposed brick, period furniture, two men at small table — PiktourUK · CC BY 2.0

Elderly street vendor at market stall surrounded by stacked goods and colorful product containers — PiktourUK · CC BY 2.0

Narrow evening street thronged with colorful storefronts, people in traditional dress posing among vendors — PiktourUK · CC BY 2.0

Young woman in brown shirt seated below traditional Vietnamese conical hats in tiered shop display — PiktourUK · CC BY 2.0

Streets still named for the trade that occupied them, and several still doing it: votive paper on one, festival flags and religious goods on another, silver since the fifteenth century on a third.

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Local Vietnam — Hanoi 36 streets
ThingsAsian — Hanoi's Old Quarter: the 36 streets