In this article, HoiAn Day Trip Company will list all world heritage sites in Vietnam that are recognized by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). Among them, there is 1 mixed heritage, 2 natural heritages, and all others are cultural heritages.
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Hoi An Ancient Town
– Location/adress: Minh An ward, Hoi An city, Quang Nam province, Vietnam
– Other name(s): Hoi An Ancient Town, Hoi An Old City, Hoi An Old Quarters, Hoi An Historic Center, Pho Co Hoi An
– Area: 30 hectares
– Year of inscription: 1999
– Main street(s): Tran Phu Street, Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Bach Dang Street, Phan Chu Trinh Street, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street
– Number of residents: around 10,000 people
– Ethnicities: Viet (Kinh) people, Hoa people
– Opening hours: 24hrs a day, 7 days a week
– Ticket price: 120,000 VND/adult & children above 15 years old (see more details)
– Reason(s) to visit: the best preserved historic town in Southeast Asia, a world heritage site, a tons of photo spots, gorgeous lanterns at night, great shopping experience, many local specialty dishes & much more
– Time to spend: at least 1/2 day
– Best time to visit: early morning, late afternoon to evening, lantern festival
– Recognition(s): Unesco world heritage site (1999), one of best tourist attractions in Vietnam, one of leading attractions in Asia, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, top cultural destinations in the world & much more
– Travel blog: https://hoiandaytrip.com/hoi-an-old-town-travel-guide
– Tour guide: contact +84968009827 (hotline/whatsapp/line/zalo)
– Food & drink: yes available
– Shopping: yes available
– Fact: Hoi An Old Town is known as ‘yellow town’ or ‘lantern town’ or ‘the prettiest town of Vietnam’
Universal outstanding values of Hoi An Ancient Town:
Criterion (ii): Hoi An is an outstanding material manifestation of the fusion of cultures over time in an international commercial port.
Criterion (v): Hoi An is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a traditional Asian trading port.
HOIAN DAY TRIP Company daily organizes tours and transfers to Hoi An Vietnam. Contact us by +84968009827 (hotline/whatsapp/line/zalo) or browse www.hoiandaytrip.com to see tours and make a reservation. Thank you very much!
My Son Sanctuary
– Location/address: My Son village, Duy Phu commune, Duy Xuyen district, Quang Nam province, Vietnam
– Name’s meaning: My Son means ‘beautiful mountain’, not ‘my son’
– How to pronounce: /mee son/
– Other name(s): My Son Ruins, My Son Holy Land, My Son Site, My Son Ancient Ruins, My Son Temples, My Son Cham Towers
– Area: 142 hectares
– Age: 4th to 13rd centuries
– Number of buildings: 71
– Opening hour(s): 6 AM to 5 PM everyday (latest 5:30 PM)
– Ticket price: 150,000 VND for foreign adults and children older than 15. It’s free for small ages, but parents still have to pay 30,000 VND for the transfer service.
– Reason(s) to visit: ancient Hindu temples amid dense jungles, a Unesco world heritage site, performances of Cham people
– Best time(s) to visit: early morning, late afternoon, sunny days
– Time to spend: 1,5-3 hours
– Recognition(s): national heritage, special national heritage, Unesco world heritage site (1999)
– Travel blog: https://hoiandaytrip.com/my-son-sanctuary-travel-guide
– Food & drink: yes availables
– Shopping: yes available
– Tour guide: contact us by +84968009827 (hotline/whatsapp/line/zalo)
– Fact: My Son Sanctuary is one of the most visited attractions in the region
Universal outstanding values of My Son Sanctuary:
Criterion (ii): The My Son Sanctuary is an exceptional example of cultural interchange, with an indigenous society adapting to external cultural influences, notably the Hindu art and architecture of the Indian sub-continent.
Criterion (iii): The Champa Kingdom was an important phenomenon in the political and cultural history of South – East Asia, vividly illustrated by the ruins of My Son
HOIAN DAY TRIP Company daily organizes tours and transfers to My Son Sanctuary Vietnam. Contact us by +84968009827 (hotline/whatsapp/line/zalo) or browse www.hoiandaytrip.com to see tours and make a reservation. Thank you very much!
Complex of Hue Monuments
– Location/address: different locations across Hue city, Vietnam
– Other name(s): Hue Ancient Capital
– Area: 315.47 ha
– Age: 1802 to 1945
– Number of component parts: 14
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– Ticket price: 50,000 to 200,000 VND per adult, depending on the site
– Reason(s) to visit: the last feudal capital of Vietnam
– Best time(s) to visit: early morning, late afternoon, the dry season
– Time to spend: a few days
– Recognition(s): UNESCO world heritage site (1993)
– Travel blog: https://hoiandaytrip.com/complex-of-hue-monuments/
– Food & drink: yes available
– Shopping: yes available
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Universal outstanding values of Complex of Hue Monuments:
Criterion (iv):The Complex of Hue Monuments is an outstanding example of an eastern feudal capital.
HOIAN DAY TRIP Company daily organizes tours and transfers to Hue City, Vietnam. Contact us by +84968009827 (hotline/whatsapp/line/zalo) or browse www.hoiandaytrip.com to see tours and make a reservation. Thank you very much!
Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park
– Location/address: Bo Trach district, Quang Binh province, Vietnam
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– Area: 217,447 ha (joining together with Hin Nam No National Park in Laos)
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– Reason(s) to visit: spectacular limestone caves and amazing underground rivers in an extremely rich rain forests, including the biggest cave passage in the world Son Dong Cave
– Best time(s) to visit: the dry season
– Time to spend: a few days
– Recognition(s): UNESCO world heritage site (2003)
– Travel blog: https://hoiandaytrip.com/phong-nha-ke-bang-national-park
– Food & drink: yes available
– Shopping: yes available
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– Fact: This is the first transboundary world heritage site in Vietnam
Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
– Location/address: Quang Ninh province and Hai Phong city, Vietnam
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– Area: 65,650 ha
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– Reason(s) to visit: one of 7 natural wonders of the world
– Best time(s) to visit: the dry season
– Time to spend: one to a few days
– Recognition(s): UNESCO world heritage site (1994)
– Travel blog: https://hoiandaytrip.com/ha-long-bay
– Food & drink: yes available
– Shopping: yes available
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Trang An Landscape Complex
– Location/address: Hoa Lu district, Ninh Binh province, Vietnam
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– Area: 6,226 ha
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– Ticket price: depending on attractions
– Reason(s) to visit: relaxing boat tour through amazingly beautiful limestone towers, underground caves, and holy temples
– Best time(s) to visit: early morning, late afternoon, sunny days
– Time to spend: people typically spend up to 3 hours here (according to Google)
– Recognition(s): UNESCO world heritage site (2014)
– Travel blog: https://hoiandaytrip.com/trang-an-landscape-complex
– Food & drink: yes available
– Shopping: yes available
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– Fact: Trang An is the first and only mixed world heritage site in Vietnam and Southeast Asia
Universal outstanding values of Trang An Landscape Complex:
Criterion (v): Trang An is an outstanding locale within Southeast Asia, for demonstrating the way early humans interacted with the natural landscape and adapted to major changes in climatic, geographical and environmental conditions over a period of more than 30,000 years. The long cultural history is closely associated with geological evolution of the Trang An limestone massif in late Pleistocene and early Holocene times, when the inhabitants endured some of the most turbulent climatic and environmental changes in Earth history, including repeated submergence of the landscape due to oscillating sea levels. Within the one compact landscape there are many sites covering multiple periods and functions, comprising early human settlement systems.
Criterion (vii): The exceptionally beautiful tower-karst landscape of Trang An is dominated by a spectacular array of forest-mantled limestone rock towers up to 200m high, which are linked in places by sharp ridges enclosing deep depressions filled by waterways that are inter-connected by a myriad of subterranean cave passages. These features all contribute to a multi-sensory visitor experience that is heightened by contrasting and ever-changing colours – the deep green tropical rainforests, grey limestone rocks and cliffs, blue-green waters and the brilliant blue of the sky, and areas of human use including the green and yellow rice paddies. Visitors, conveyed in traditional sampans rowed by local guides, experience an intimate connection with the natural environment and a relaxing sense of serenity and security. The dramatic mountains, secretive caves and sacred places in Trang An have inspired people through countless generations.
Criterion (viii): Trang An is a superb geological property that displays, in a globally exceptional way, the final stages of tower-karst landscape evolution in a humid tropical environment. Deep dissection of an uplifted limestone massif over a period of five million years has produced a series of classical karst landforms, including cones, towers, enclosed depressions (cockpits), interior-draining valleys (poljes), foot- caves and subterranean cave passages decorated with speleothems. The presence of transitional forms between ‘fengcong’ karst with ridges connecting towers, and ‘fenglin’ karst where towers stand isolated on alluvial plains, is an extremely significant feature of the property. Trang An is an unusual autogenic karst system, being rain-fed only and hydrologically isolated from rivers in the surrounding terrain. Former inundation by the sea transformed the massif into an archipelago for some periods, though it is fully emergent on land today. Fluctuations of sea level are evidenced by an altitudinal series of erosion notches in cliffs, with associated caves, wave-cut platforms, beach deposits and marine shell layers.
Citadel of Ho Dynasty
– Location/address: Vĩnh Tiến, Vĩnh Lộc District, Thanh Hoa, Vietnam
– Other name(s): Ho Citadel, Tay Do Capital
– Area: 155.5 ha
– Age: 1397-1400
– Number of components: 3 (Inner Citadel, Outer Wall or La Thanh, Nam Giao Altar)
– Opening hour(s): 7:30 am to 6:00 pm
– Ticket price: 40,000 VND per adult and children above 15, 20,000 VND for children from 8 to 15
– Reason(s) to visit: capital of Vietnam in 15th century, the largest stone fortress in Southeast Asia
– Best time(s) to visit: early morning, late afternoon, sunny days
– Time to spend: people typically spend up to 1 hour here (according to Google)
– Recognition(s): UNESCO world heritage site (2011)
– Travel blog: https://hoiandaytrip.com/ho-citadel
– Food & drink: yes available
– Shopping: yes available
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Universal outstanding values of Ho Citadel:
Criterion (ii): The property exhibits Chinese Confucianism influence on a symbol of regal centralized power in the late 14th – early 15th century. It represents new developments in architectural style with respect to technology and, in adapting pre-existing geomantic city planning principles in an East Asian and South-east Asian context, makes full use of the natural surroundings and incorporated distinctly Vietnamese and East and Southeast Asian elements in its monuments and landscape.
Criterion (iv): The Ho Citadel is an outstanding example of an architectural ensemble in a landscape setting which illustrates a flowering of pragmatic Neo-Confucianism in late 14th century Viet Nam, at a time when it was spreading throughout East Asia to become a major philosophical influence on government in the region. The use of large blocks of stone testifies to the organizational power of the Neo-Confucian state, and the shift in the main axis distinguishes the Citadel layout from the Chinese norm.
Central Sector of Imperial Citadel of Thang Long – Hanoi
– Location/address: 19C Hoang Dieu Street, Dien Bien ward, Ba Dinh district, Hanoi city, Vietnam
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– Area: 18.395 ha
– Age: 10th to 21st centuries
– Opening hour(s): 8 am to 5 pm
– Ticket price: 100,000 VND per adult & children above 16 years old
– Reason(s) to visit: the most important historical place in Vietnam
– Best time(s) to visit: early morning, late afternoon, sunny days
– Time to spend: people typically spend up to 2.5 hours here (according to Google)
– Recognition(s): UNESCO world heritage site (2010)
– Travel blog: https://hoiandaytrip.com/imperial-citadel-of-thang-long
– Food & drink: yes available
– Shopping: yes available
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– Fact: This place also includes 18 Hoang Dieu Archaeological Site
Universal outstanding values of Imperial Citadel of Thang Long:
Criterion (iii): The Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long bears witness to the long cultural tradition of the Viêt populations established in the Delta and the lower Red River Valley. It was a continuous seat of power from the 7th century through to the present day.
Criterion (vi): The Imperial Citadel of Thang Long at Hanoi, with its political function and symbolic role, is directly associated with numerous and important cultural and historical events, and leading artistic expressions and moral, philosophical, and religious ideas. The succession of these events marks the formative and development process of an independent nation over more than a thousand years, including the colonial period and the two contemporary Wars of Independence and reunification of Viet Nam.
Yen Tu – Vinh Nghiem – Con Son, Kiep Bac Complex
– Location/address: Quang Ninh, Hai Duong, and Bac Giang province (centrally Yen Tu Mountain, Uong Bi city, Quang Ninh province)
– Other name(s): Yen Tu Complex of Monuments & Landscapes
– Area: 525.748 ha
– Age: 13rd and 14th centuries
– Number of components: 12
– Component parts: Hoa Yen Pagoda, Lan Pagoda, Thanh Mai Pagoda, Ngoa Van Pagoda, Con Son Pagoda, Vinh Nghiem Pagoda, Bo Da Pagoda, Nham Duong Pagoda, Kiep Bac Temple, Thai Mieu Ancestral Shrine, Kinh Chu Cavern, Yen Giang Stake Yard
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– Reason(s) to visit: homeland of Truc Lam Buddhism (a uniquely Vietnamese Zen tradition), hometown of Tran dynasty (1225-1400)
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– Recognition(s): UNESCO world heritage site (2025)
– Travel blog: https://hoiandaytrip.com/yen-tu-complex
– Food & drink: yes available
– Shopping: yes available
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– Fact: Yen Tu Complex is the first serial world heritage site in Vietnam
Universal outstanding values of Yen Tu Complex:
Criterion (iii): A strategic alliance of the State, religion and the people developing from the Yen Tu mountainous homeland created a unique cultural tradition of global significance that shaped nationhood and fostered peace and security in the wider region.
The property provides exceptional testimony to Truc Lam Buddhism, a uniquely Vietnamese Zen tradition dated in 13th century by Tran kings, royal family and leading monastic figures, notably King-Buddha Tran Nhan Tong, the only known monarch in Asia who voluntarily abdicated his throne to become a monk. Integrating Mahayana Buddhism with Confucianism, Taoism and local beliefs, truc Lam Buddhism contributed to the spiritual foundation and the rise of an independent state, resilient Vietnamese societies over time and foster peace amidst the global instability in the 13th century. The complex continues to be the place of enduring cultural – religious tradition practices and inspire
the community in Viet Nam and internationally.Criterion (vi): Truc Lam Buddhism is a globally significant illustration of the way a religion, derived from several sources of belief, originating and developing from its spiritual homeland in Yen Tu, influenced the secular society fostering a strong nation, ensuring regional peace and cooperation. The property is directly associated with the founding and diffusion of Truc Lam Buddhism. The continual celebration of rituals, festivals, scriptures and pilgrimage to sacred sites – both in Viet Nam and Truc Lam Buddhism institutions internationally – attest to the enduring global relevance of the spiritual philosophy of self-discipline, living in harmony with the nature, peace loving and benevolence.
Oc Eo – Ba The Archaeological Site
– Location/address: Oc Eo town, Thoai Son district, An Giang province, Vietnam
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– Age: 1st to 7th centuries
– Opening hour(s): 24hrs a day
– Ticket price: free
– Reason(s) to visit: one of the most important historical places about disappeared Funan kingdom
– Best time(s) to visit: early morning, late afternoon, sunny days
– Time to spend: 30-45 minutes
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– Travel blog: https://hoiandaytrip.com/oc-eo-ba-the-archaeolofical-site
– Food & drink: yes available
– Shopping: yes available
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– Fact: Oc Eo – Ba The is the first world heritage site in southern Vietnam and ancient Funan kingdom
