Hanoi Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

WARNING - Please don't read this if you're sqeemish!

As we were back in Hanoi (as a stopover before heading south), we decided to check out Le Mat, a snake village just outside of Hanoi.

We got a cab there and were dropped off outside an open house with lots of snakes in jars! The owners dragged us inside and took us to a large ca...

Yesterday a man drove up to the hostel in his converted Mercedes station wagon, complete with bed and shower. He'd come in from Holland via Chiang Mai and had been on the road for 9 month. Amazing what you can do if you put your mind to it. I was on a mad scramble to spend every last kip in my possession being that they were practically worthles...

Its overcast in Hanoi this moring as I venture out of my box room-a room with no windows-not the depressing place you imgine because its design is great as it quashes all the noise of Hanoi out!!!!Its a depressing grey sky- the sort which probably made me leave England all those years ago.Ive seen the main things in Hanoi and decide its a day of...

"To do business is safer than discuss politics." This quote was said to me by one man in a restaurant, but the logic is applied to daily life by everyone in Vietnam. You will go to jail if you speak out against the Communist government, so people just try to avoid talking about politics whatsoever. They do not want to talk about war either- they...

The start of our Odyssey.. 1st Jan 2008: We took the 3.00pm flight from Kuala Lumpur to Hanoi by Air Asia, the incredibly cheap airlines which made travel possible for everyone, well, almost everyone. No delay and no problem with the flight. Upon our arrival at the busy airport, Argi had to attend to obtaining his visa and as for me, being a Mal...

Well, day 2 finds us still in Hanoi. Today we went to the Ho Chi Mihn house and museum. We also took in the water puppet show. Both were very interesting. However, the most exciting part of the day was both Tessa and I on the back of the same moped traveling at break-neck speed throughout the city. Traffic in this city is amazing. We met an Iris...

Hue to Ha Noi This morning I was very lazy and didn't do any sightseeing, I just wasn't in the mood for it. Everyone else rushed off and saw things, but I took time out to chill and to be on my own for a while. It was enjoyable to do nothing with no one else around, a real luxury that I so rarely experience. We left the hotel in Hue at about 10:...

Turns out no one seems to be using the hotel computer so decided to get on while the coast is clear! Okay time for a beast of an update! We start with Wednesday 11th July... Wednesday ---------- Wake up. Dave rings up yet another person he met last year, this time Maneesa - very nice but also slightly crazy. The two of us go to meet her at the o...

I spent the day getting lost and unlost as I walked around the neighborhoods surrounding Hoam Kiem Lake. The lake is near the Old Quarter, where French colonial buildings crowd around narrow streets. I took a long time finding something to eat, as the caffeine headache creeped in. Not so many Vietnamese people drink coffee, I think. As I walked,...

The title of this entry is in honour of my sister, Emma. For reasons best left between ourselves.... I had fondly imagined that Hanoi would be a lot cooler than Singapore. I can be pretty stupid sometimes. The heat is the same, a little cooler I guess, and less hanging humidity. As I watched the news on BBC World in my hotel room, I cursed mysel...