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Hanoi Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Hanoi, Vietnam
The Heart of Hanoi
This is a top pick! ... manipulate painted wooden puppets over a pool of water--the stage. Immediately, the choice of water made sense: Northern Vietnam's people are intricately connected with water, whether through growing rice in paddies, fishing, boating, or raising ducks. ...
The Dong Xuan Market
This is a top pick! ... weren't any incredibly exotic goods. It's mostly dishes, dresses, shoes, and brand name jeans for low prices courtesy of Vietnam's proximity to China. Some people we met said they saw a meat vendor selling dog, but we missed that. It ...
Imperial cities and majestic landscapes
This is a top pick! ... on a single bamboo pole, who are probably stronger and tougher than most men you'll see at your gym. - rice paddies (though Vietnam is only the 2nd largest producer in the world, Thailand being 1st) - the incessant honking (the idea behind it is the ...
Long Bien Bridge
This is a top pick! ... side for foot and motorbike traffic. It spans the Red River and was of great strategic importance during the Vietnam War, providing a communication link to China. The structure was repeatedly bombed by Americans and then hastily repaired by ...
Ha-long is the Hue to Hanoi?
This is a top pick! ... had been better, nevertheless- it was a phenomenal sight to see. We had a great experience our last night in Vietnam at a restaurant in Hanoi. There are a couple of restaurants there that are set up to train homeless street kids for a career in the ...
Back to Hanoi
This is a top pick! On our last night in Vietnam, I met professional soccer players for the V-League, the Vietnamese Professional Soccer League. But these soccer players weren't Vietnamese! They were imported to play in Hanoi from Rwanda and Nigeria. Earlier that night I ...
Hostelling in Hanoi
This is a top pick! ... Bay on offer, beer and pizza deals and nightly drink-fueled games. Comfiest bed since we left London though so no complaints! Hanoi is a really great city. It’s a bit manic like any city in this region, however it manages to do it ...
First Impressions of Hanoi
This is a top pick! ... . Such a change from the Vietnamese cuisine we've become used to. Today we began to take in the sites of Hanoi, Vietnam's northern and sedate capital. The city shows much more geometrical French planning than Saigon. Our tour began at Hao Long ...
Back in Hanoi and Goodbye to Vietnam
This is a top pick! ... plans. I realize many travellers are faced with similar incomprehensions from their friends before embarking on journeys, but Vietnam is a wonderful and easily accessible country for travellers and I would recommend that anyone visit here, regardless of ...
Good Morning Vietnam!!!
This is a top pick! ... , a bit harsh by anyones standards. While taking in Hanoi we stumbled across a tour company that were offering bike tours of vietnam, and we couldn't resist... mmm, bikes! So we packed our stuff and headed to the northeast of Vietnam, two bikes, a ...
The Old Quarter
This is a top pick! Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam. Our guidebook describes the city as "bustling." I would have chosen "insanity." I've never been to a place where just walking down the street made me want to assault people. I'm not a fan of ...
Noerken in der Koerken
This is a top pick! ... from Saigon to Hanoi was romantic in a Paul Theroux's 'Great Train Bazaar' kind of way. We met people from not only Vietnam, but Japan and Holland. From the windows we saw tropical jungles and factories, then went to sleep and woke to rice paddies from ...
Chinese New Year
This is a top pick! The Chinese New Year was nothing spectacular. Being so close to the home of fireworks, I expected more of a show. And it was hard to figure out when they'd celebrate. We always do it at midnight, following 11:59 p.m. of New Year's Eve. Their fireworks ...
Good Morning Vietnam!!
This is a top pick! Good Morning Vietnam!! Well its more like good evening really. We arrived from Guangzhou by plane at about 10.30pm and stood in a que at airport immigration for about an hour while our luggage got lonely on the conveyor belt. After they finally let us ...
The Prison
This is a top pick! ... that vivid photo of children running naked from the jungle with their skin melting away. Just the name of the country - Vietnam - brings forth an ominous feeling with nothing attached to it. Certain cities touch on some memory I can't place: ...
Bus, Ferry, Bus, Bus back to Hanoi
This is a top pick! ... price tags. We were able to purchase our train tickets for Hue at the station, saving us the 100% surcharge the travel agents charge. It's a 14-hour ride, so we went with an overnight again. We left Hanoi behind, in no hurry to ...
Nothing is open in this place!
This is a top pick! ... painted in gold, against the clear blue sky. We then got a tuk tuk to deliver us to the airport to catch our first Vietnam Air flight to Hanoi. At the airport we tried top get on the earlier flight to Hanoi but no luck. We also tried to get rid of ...
Motorbike?
This is a top pick! ... I headed over the road for a tasty tuna baguette before walking some more to the Ho Lo Prison Museum otherwise known as the "Hanoi Hilton" by the American POWs kept here during the war. The prison had a number of displays and information about its history ...
A dog is for dinner not just for Christmas!
This is a top pick! ... I am not talking Crufts. Nearly every restaurant advertise Thit Chao which basically means dog meat. It is served all around Vietnam but is particularly a Northern Speciality and supposed to be good for colds. We decided to stick with Paracetamol! We ...
The Water Puppet Theatre
This is a top pick! ... so seemingly otherworldly. It was one of the coolest things we've done in Asia. So there's a redeeming quality of Hanoi. The show was so impressive that it made me forget all the noise and pollution and chaos. That's quite an ...
Revenge Of The Horn
This is a top pick! ... Google Search on her iPad and found a site that indicated there were over 1,000 motorcycle deaths per month in Vietnam. Yikes!! We were in the Old Quarter of Hanoi which was great for ambiance, and easy access to a number of key sites but it also meant ...
Motorcycles Galore
This is a top pick! Hanoi - Capital of Vietnam, faded French grandeur, Uncle Ho's communist legacy...and more bloody motorcycles that you can possibly imagine. Cars, it appears, are a recent invention, at least as far as the Hanoians are concerned. Here, the motorcycle ...
Ho Chi Mingin'..
This is a top pick! Welcome to the capital of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Hanoi. On first impressions Hanoi is sophisticated, modern, and yet maintains a touch of the old at every turn. It has broad boulevards, lush trees, ugly governmental institutions, and dozens ...
The rest of Vietnam... (original title isn't it?)
This is a top pick! ... of what used to be a "Love Market" in Sapa. It has, in recent years, degraded from this intercultural meeting of Vietnam's youth to a more touristed display of the local culture. Still, it was interesting. We walked around we spotted one man selling ...
Moped madness and gorgeous girls
This is a top pick! ... it that a photograph will never really truly capture or do justice to. Ruth joined me again for my last stop in Vietnam - Hanoi. Andy, his body, great organising skills and humour were sadly somewhere else. Having found out I'd been dumped by my ...
Train to Hanoi
This is a top pick! ... on the way back to Hanoi. It wasn't 5-star, but it was a hell of a lot better than the ride to Sapa. Once back in Hanoi, we immediately headed to Haiphong by train, then caught a ferry to Cat Ba island, the jumping off point for Halong ...
Beautiful...City
This is a top pick! ... the nickname of the prison where firstly the French kept Vietnamese, but more famously, the Vietnamese kept American pilots during the Vietnam war. We were actually half an hour early, so wandered around a local market, only to be revolted by seeing a ...
Back to the Madness
This is a top pick! Back to Hanoi for a day before heading to Ha Long Bay and Cat Ba Island. We arrived in the train station at about 5.30 am and even though it was ridiculously early the place was still mad. All around the central lake there were people doing excercises ...
Another day doing absolutely nowt!!
This is a top pick! After a good lie in this morning followed by the free buffet breakfast, we had to decide whether we wanted to actually get off our asses today. The decision was - maybe. We knew we had to go and collect our visas today at 3pm, so we will probably set out ...