Perfume Pagoda Hanoi

Hanoi , Vietnam

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    It's Been a While....

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    Gosh, It certainly has been a while since the last entry. All of the distractions aside, I thought that it was time to continue on with my blog...

    I am very sorry for the lateness of this blog! I went to Vietnam on the 1st of October until the 8th of October. To help speed up the process of this entry, I will do what I do best... speak …

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    Tagesausflug zur Perfum Pagode

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    Heute ist Donnerstag, 10.11., eigentlich unser letzter Tag in Hanoi. Wir wollen aber we***** in der "Smog geschwängerten" Stadt bleiben sondern einen Ausflug zur berühmten Perfum Pagode machen, diese liegt etwa 70km südlich von Hanoi in Chua Hong.

    Ein morgendlicher Blick aus dem Fenster verheisst schönes Wetter, blauer Himmel. Der Schritt …

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    Breathtaking pagoda, my ****...

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    I realise that the title sort of gives the game away about my feelings towards the perfume pagoda, but I feel strongly about this one.

    We booked a trip to visit the 'stunning' pagoda, having been assured, even by Lonely Planet (!) of its' beauty. In fairness it actually started well. After a quite interesting hour and a half minibus drive …

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    Day Trip to Perfume Pergoda

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    Another early start ( for me anyway) up at 6am brekkie by 7am pickup at 7:30am by Mr Fok (means Happy apparently) and Tuan(Tim) our guide for the trip to the Perfume Pagoda on Suoi Yen River.

    It took approximately 2hr to drive the 60kms South the region then the 6 of us climbed into a small metal rowboat where a lovely lady the size of my …

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    Missed out on the porcupine. Dang it.

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    Hanoi is such a cool city. Surprise number one... there were so many foreigners. I almost felt like I blended into the crowd. Almost. One of the pictures I posted here shows a long line of Vietnamese Grandmas doing a massage congo line thing. As I walked through the park and saw this I instantly wanted to join. So I did. The lady I got in line …

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    A Little Hanoi-ed

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    ... lady is more than happy to help, she guides us through the options as she must make a rake on the commission. We book the Perfume Pagoda tour up in the hills, A Halong Bay overnight cruise and we are talked into buying the overnight bus instead of our ...

  • 2

    Pleasant Perfume Pagoda

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    ... 't help but moan the entire day. First they had a good whine about the fact the boat seats were wet (no kidding, we're in Vietnam and it rains all the time), and another time when they didn't want to get the boats back from the pagoda because the journey ...

  • 3

    Temple Tour

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    I had gotten sick after the Perfume Pagoda trip. I had a cough and a fever. I had a sore throat. I had the bird flu. I had Japanese encephalitis, yellow fever, West Nile virus, and malaria. I had a cold. I took cheap antibiotics and DayQuil. I spent a ...

  • 4

    Imperial cities and majestic landscapes

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    ... born. Hanoi and its outer areas offer spectacular and dramatic landscapes. We hired a rowboat for the 1-hour ride to the Perfume Pagoda outside the city, where we were surrounded by limestone mountains, water so calm it looked like glass, and ...

  • 5

    The Perfume Pagoda

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    The most popular day trip from Hanoi is to the Perfume Pagoda.  It is a collection of temples and shrines that sits in Huong Tich Mountain.  The major shrine is in a large cave at the top of the mountain.  It's mildly impressive, but like ...

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    The Old Quarter and a few other things

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    ... this. The building was impressive though, as was most of the governmental quarter. I did a day trip out to the Perfume Pagoda, which is really a mountain dotted with pagodas some in caves, some hosting monasteries. Vast amounts of waving rice ...

  • 7

    The Perfume Pagoda

    ... girl of my, of my, I can't explain what, but there was Happy. As I only had one more day left in Vietnam, we decided to do the Perfume Pagoda tour. We jumped on a bus and then into these little boats with each one having a boy or woman manning the oars ...

  • 8

    Hairy women

    12 May - Another early start - how rude! This time we were off to the Perfume Pagoda which is supposed to be a must do in Hanoi. We were collected from our hotel and walked to the bus by a grumpy guide who didn't say a word. Unlike the trip to Halong ...

  • 9

    Back to the City Again!

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    ... night to eat pizza and drink beer and blow our day's budget. It felt good. The next morning Ben went on a tour to the Perfume Pagoda, but came back early as it was rained out. We bought an Open Bus Ticket which includes 6 stops for $20 (special price) ...

  • 10

    Dodging traffic

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    ... game what invited much conversation and advice from the others watching. Again on recommendation, we took a day trip to visit the Perfume Pagoda, a series of fifteen temples built in and on a mountain about 70km south east of Hanoi.  The first two ...