Old City Gate Hanoi

Wow, really counting down the entries now. A month to go of my placement! This is the last of three quick catch up entries to get back on schedule. This Wednesday I'll push out another entry about how my placement has been going.

This is another catch up, and trip, report (short video if you can't be bothered reading ;-)). I visited …

Morning,
Checked into central backpackers

got sorted and walked out to lunch at Ban cha hang manh
which was bun cha, with meat. we had intended to have only a small dish but ended up stuffing ourselves instead.

Went to Dong xuan market, a big market full of only clothes and wholesale cloth.
Very big with lots of …

Hanoi er frekar klikkuð borg, vorum aðalleg að ráfa um í „gamla hverfinu" þar sem milljónir vespa koma úr öllum áttum í þröngum götum og það er ekki hægt að labba á gangstéttunum fyrir öllum vespunum sem er lagt þar og fólki, aðallega innfæddum sem sitja á litlum bláum plaststólum og borðar eða er að selja eitthvað. Kíktum á markaði, þar sem …

We both had no idea that when we were arriving into Hanoi that up here was the winter season so we had to rug up in any warmish clothes we had. it was our first mistake when traveling, we didn't prepare for any cold weather as we were told from our travel agent that it was their summer over there. boy were we wrong!

Another thing to go by …

Got off the plane and stepped onto the street to the Vietnamese people all wearing parkas and gloves. A lot colder than Malaysia! Got a cab to the hostel which may have been the scariest half hour journey of my life. They don't have rules on the Vietnamese roads. There isn't lanes or right of way, and people go down the wrong side of the road if …

... it)....Ho Chi Min's Mausoleum (closed by the time we got there, he must need his rest)...and the most difficult to find, Old City Gate (hard to find as its pathetic). Now give us some credit, we tried the cultural sightseeing and worked up a thirst...so ...

... a toilet by this time we had no idea where we were only to find that we had walked to the dodge part of town near old city gate that you are not suppose to go to of a night time. By the time we recognised a familiar landmark I had a small incontinence ...

... ...we did try to mimic what he may look like but we got shouted at by 1 of the guards...we saved the worst for last, Old City Gate a little arch over the road. So as far as seeing the sights of the city go...unless you really have nothing else to do ...