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30th Anniversary, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

30th Anniversary

A travel blog entry by eric

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... 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!!, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Ha Nói, Ha Long, Ha Bloody Cold!!

A travel blog entry by bowney

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Sleeper bus between Hue and Hanoi

A travel blog entry by ieeworldvoyage

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Hanoi - Mopeds, mopeds, mopeds

A travel blog entry by stephen.j.booth

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Midnight Not-So-Express

A travel blog entry by bowney

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Christmas in Hanoi

A travel blog entry by nickiemoore

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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"

A travel blog entry by goodrichodyssey

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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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

I see dead people

A travel blog entry by smartandsassy

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... 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 :), Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Gooood Morning Vieeetnam :)

A travel blog entry by thomaswguy

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... 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, Hanoi, Hanoi Province, Vietnam travel blog

Tour of duty complete

A travel blog entry by jawad

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First flight in asia since arriving 3 months ago - the rest of the travels have been all ...

Hello Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Hello Hanoi

A travel blog entry by kimandmartin

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Hanoi, Halong and Ho Chi Minh's Corpse

A travel blog entry by emmaandemma

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... 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 ...

Hanoid with the Scams, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Hanoid with the Scams

A travel blog entry by meandher

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The length of Vietnam in 21 days......, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

The length of Vietnam in 21 days......

A travel blog entry by wanderers

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Good Morning, Vietnam

A travel blog entry by luolan

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

New friends

A travel blog entry by eric

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... .  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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Hue, Hanoi and Halong Bay

A travel blog entry by lizandsteve

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

New Years

A travel blog entry by arlash

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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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Capital of Vietnam

A travel blog entry by mills-mcshea

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Hanoi, second time around

A travel blog entry by luolan

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

The sights

A travel blog entry by eric

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Vietnam

A travel blog entry by eric

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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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

The people

A travel blog entry by eric

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... , 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Hanoi in a day

A travel blog entry by orizarska

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... 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?, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Nam maN! - mirror?

A travel blog entry by jeffs

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... 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, Hanoi, Hanoi Province, Vietnam travel blog

Hanging out in Hanoi

A travel blog entry by jawad

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... 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 ...

Exploring more of Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Exploring more of Hanoi

A travel blog entry by emanddave

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A Return to Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

A Return to Vietnam

A travel blog entry by dane

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... 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 ...

A Few More Photos from Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

A Few More Photos from Hanoi

A travel blog entry by dane

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From our walk to the train ...

Temple Tour, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Temple Tour

A travel blog entry by dane

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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 ...

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