Hanoi
Travel Blogs from Hanoi, Vietnam
30th Anniversary
... Not sure where it will lead, but it sounded genuine and encouraging. Incidentally, the big holiday coming up is April 30, Vietnam's Independence Day. Because all government including schools will be closed for four days, I left early for my next ...
Ha Nói, Ha Long, Ha Bloody Cold!!
... a meal and our own TV's! Day 1 We found our driver as soon as we got out of the airport, and made our way to Vietnam's capital, Hanoi. Let me tell you, the city roads are like nothing I have ever seen....it's like a sea of motor bikes coming at you from ...
Sleeper bus between Hue and Hanoi
... des problèmes d'être un étranger et un voyageur est que vous devez faire confiance aux gens à qui vous parlez et ici au Vietnam, très souvent, on nous ment en plein visage, sans même avoir une légère ombre de culpabilité. Bien que nous avions ...
Hanoi - Mopeds, mopeds, mopeds
... teach us how to prepare and cook traditional dishes such as spring rolls, chicken and catfish. You can find Pho everywhere in Vietnam and our hotel offered it for breakfast. It's a sort of noodle soup with chicken or beef served with onions and ...
Midnight Not-So-Express
... and positive, but I fear this one may not be so jolly! We arrived back to Hanoi, and are to make our way down the coast of Vietnam to Hué. However, we are travelling by sleeper train.....and we booked too late to get a 'Soft Sleeper' so we are in a 'Hard ...
Christmas in Hanoi
Xin Chào from Hanoi! We’d always dreamed of visiting Hanoi, capital city of Vietnam, and it surpassed all our expectations. It is beautiful and vibrant, blending exotic, effervescent south-east Asia with French colonial elegance, or as Lonely ...
"Old Quarter"
About a one hour plane ride and we touched down in Hanoi the capital of Vietnam. The ride from the airport to downtown was crazy, thousands of motorbikes on the highway going in and out of lanes. We had a major traffic jam when about 30 cows and bulls ...
I see dead people
... terrible that I woke the young man up. So after a night of sleep in the most comfortable bed yet in Vietnam (stay at the Gecko Hotel if you are in Hanoi, honestly, it is fantastic), I woke up and after a bit of room fiasco ventured out into the city. I ...
Gooood Morning Vieeetnam :)
... after landing we walked from Arrivals to departures and within 2 hours we were on another flight, 3 hours later landing in Hanoi, Northern Vietnam. On this flight i had the same scary experience i have had on a flight previously...Basically i drift ...
Tour of duty complete
First flight in asia since arriving 3 months ago - the rest of the travels have been all ...
Hello Hanoi
... There are also no lanes - it's simply who can out manoever the person beside him/her! Hanoi, population 3.5 million, is the capital of Vietnam. Vietnam's population is about 81 million, making it the 13th most populous nation on earth. Vietnamese are ...
Hanoi, Halong and Ho Chi Minh's Corpse
... the anniversary of the fall of Saigon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reunification_Day) and also Labor day, so everyone in Vietnam is travelling around, hence tickets being hard to get... Luckily we had great success! We now have sleeper train tickets ...
The length of Vietnam in 21 days......
... are as friendly, if not friendlier, and the food (which as you might have guessed is very important to us) is delicious. We leave Vietnam tomorrow to cross the border to Laos, where we will be for between 2 and 3 weeks. The e-mails seem to have dried ...
Good Morning, Vietnam
... wanted us to come eat at his restaurant. Which we did. All in all, you couldn't have scripted a more spectacular entrance into Vietnam. Let there be no mistake, the Americans have arrived. The train ride to Hanoi was scheduled to take 10 hours. We ...
New friends
... . He was working for one of the big 3 American autos at the time. Around 2001, his request to transfer to Vietnam was granted. This year he left to open his own business. His main store is in Hanoi's first shopping mall that ...
Hue, Hanoi and Halong Bay
... and maybe travelling to China with. From Hue we were all excited to catch the Reunification Express train to Hanoi, as we've only used buses so far in Vietnam. It was to be a 12 hour overnight journey and we'd booked a sleeper carriage...however upon ...
New Years
January 4, 05 Northern Vietnam is spectacular in its diverse scenery and people. I caught a bus to Halong Bay the day after I arrived. I was a day behind the group I had met, but figured I would catch up to them in the bay somewhere. Our first stop ...
Capital of Vietnam
... amount of bus time, 24 hours on and off, and a full recovery from the hangover from hell, we arrive in the capital of Vietnam in the north of the country. Although the weather from Hue was wet, the weather here is noticeably cold (not compared to home), ...
Hanoi, second time around
... piles of "ghost money" on the sidewalk-fake money which is burned as an offering to the gods. Despite my reluctance to leave Vietnam, I am also relieved (just a little) to be getting back "home." To all of the die-hard, ardent backpackers out there, ...
The sights
... was a little shocked. "Of course!!" Whatever communism they practice, it's sure not East-Bloc. What else about Hanoi? Eight days in Vietnam and still no sun. Somehow I thought it was always hot here. One thing I like is ...
Vietnam
Hello. Of all the countries I'm visiting, Vietnam was the one I was looking forward to the most. I eat regularly at a Vietnamese restaurant in Seattle. Many of my friends at the hotel where I work are Vietnamese. I'm intrigued by the ...
The people
... , sincere and helpful. It tends to go to extremes here. I've made a couple friends in Hanoi who I hope to come back and visit. Vietnam can be too intense for some people. I can handle the traffic. And the vendors. ...
Hanoi in a day
... from. It is Bun Ga Ri. I'm no longer a stranger! I come from the land of roses, ..and Stoichkov! I knew it! Vietnam still loves us Bulgari! I only brought the little camera. It is broken. It can't focus. I kind of ...
Nam maN! - mirror?
... of 3) made our excuses and left. I made loose arrangements with Gary and James to meet the following day as we were all off to Vietnam.... I left thinking i'd never see them again! So, there i was, sat on a bus with a, what turned out to be 36 hours bus ...
Hanging out in Hanoi
... Unfortunately the one daily bus had already left by the time we arrived (7am) so we were left with the option of hanging around Hanoi for the day and catching the night train instead. I thought I'd take advantage of the free ride into the old city and ...
A Return to Vietnam
... took a 2-day boat trip on Halong Bay. So punctuated by all of that, in the right circumstances, Vietnam is an incredible destination, and Hanoi is the price we pay for that. But these particular two days in Hanoi just shopping for some winter ...
Temple Tour
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 ...

