HA NOI OPEN UNIVERSITY Faculty of Tourism SUSTAINABLE TRAINING TOURISM
Course: Sustainable Training Tourism Practice
Name: Bùi Thị Huyền Trang Class: 2246A02 Lecture session: Lesson 1
LESSON: INTRODUCTION OF HOAN KIEM LAKE
TOPIC OF LESSON: BA DA PAGODA &
THE STORY OF BUDDHISM IN VIETNAM INTRODUCTION
Good afternoon! Welcome to Ha Noi – the capital of Viet Nam. It’s my
pleasure to be your tour guide today. My name is Trang – spelled
T-R-A-N-G. I’ve been a tour guide for Sky Travel company for 3 years. On
behalf of the company, I would like to extend our deepest gratitude to you
for trusting and choosing our company for this trip.
Please allow me to check the number of members. You are Linh Anh right?
Thank you and I want to say: that you look beautiful.
So, I would like to inform you of the itinerary and main activities for the tour
around Hoan Kiem Lake. Today's tour will begin at 1 PM at Ba Kieu
Temple, finish at 5 PM at Saint Joseph Cathedral, and include one hour for
free exploration. During the tour, we will spend 10-20 minutes visiting each
point such as the Ly Thai To Monument, Ngoc Son Temple, Ba Kieu
Temple, and Ba Da Pagoda,…. You will have the chance to explore
important cultural and historical landmarks. Through stories, legends about
characters, and events associated with each location, you can learn more 1
about the history of Hanoi, the unique cultural features and traditional
values of Hanoi people in particular and Vietnamese people in general.
After visiting Ngoc Son Temple, we will have a 30-minute break. At the end,
I will wait from 5:00 pm to 5:15 pm. So, please pay attention to the time.
To ensure a successful trip, please note the following instructions.
First, do not touch the artifacts
Second, do not wear short clothes, and always be respectful when visiting sacred sites Third, do not litter
Finally, do not separate from the group
It is currently the tourist season so there are a lot of tourists here.
Therefore, I will hold up this flag to prevent our group from getting lost. In
case you get lost, go to the next attraction and wait for me there, or contact
me by phone and describe your location.
That's all the information for today's trip. Do you have any questions before we start? CONTENT:
We are standing at the Ba Da Pagoda campus, located at 3, Nha Tho
Street, only 100m from Hoan Kiem Lake. This is one of the four oldest pagodas in Hanoi.
To explain the name of this pagoda, the surrounding people say that they
dug up a female stone statue during the process of digging the land to build
Thang Long citadel and thought that it was a statue of Buddha, so they
brought it to worship in the pagoda and from there the name Ba Da Pagoda
was born. Due to historical changes, the structure of the pagoda has been
completely changed compared to the original. The small and narrow
pagoda gate is located between two houses, making it difficult for many
visitors to recognize. Currently, the statues worshiped in the pagoda are statues of Buddha Shakyamuni. 2
It can be said that it has a rather special history compared to other pagodas
in Thang Long Citadel and is located on the tourist route of historical and
cultural relics around Hoan Kiem Lake: Ngoc Son Temple, King Le
Memorial area, Ba Da Pagoda, Ly Quoc Su Pagoda... Ba Da Pagoda was
ranked as an Architectural and Artistic Relic by the Hanoi People's Committee on May 23, 2005. CONCLUSION:
This is the end of our tour for today. Do you have any questions about this
part of the tour? Today, we visited 9 places around Hoan Kiem Lake, to see
their history, culture, and architecture. If anyone has any questions or
concerns about the trip, feel free to ask. I wish you good health and many
more trips to Hanoi in the future. I hope to see you again soon. Goodbye! 3