Hanoi
Travel Blogs from Hanoi, Vietnam
Motorcycle Madness
... our trip as she headed home to catch up with family and friends, especially her sister and new nephew Joe. I took a flight with Vietnam Airlines to Hanoi in an old rattly aircraft with well worn seats and not a tv in sight. The inflight food was amazing ...
What a crazy capital!
... a week in Laos, and Halong Bay's serene scenery and tranquil cruising (albeit with hundreds of other tourist boats), the bustle of Vietnam's capital came as quite a shock! We disembarked our Halong Bay junk at 8am on Monday the 25th, and, after a short ...
A Lovely Airport
... smooth journey I expected, or the night out with some Danes I was planning to meet again! I flew with Vietnam Airlines from Luang Phabang to Hanoi- a great short flight, nothing like Lao Airlines! When I got to passport control however, things changed. ...
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 ...
Good Morning Vietnam!!
... nbsp;little snorted laugh at our expense. We also find it quite funny. Shutters down, the place is asleep. Our first impressions of Hanoi are as a sleepy little town - this is soon to be dispelled.We knock hopefully on the shutter and Hallelujia, the ...
Lost at Sea
... into the old city. As we say our goodbyes I contemplate that Chung Sinh Tours has negatively affected everyones feelings about Vietnam, and has confirmed in my mind the country's reputation as a hard place to travel independently. Rachel and I decide ...
Hanoi Over Night
Just an over night after getting back from Halong Bay. We booked the train ticket the following morning to Sapa. Went to Mao's Red Lounge again. Our local in Hanoi : ...
Arriving in Nam
... to a nice hotel. I was relieved just to get off the bus after 24 hours of being unable to move. Vietnam is a huge culture shock after Laos. In Hanoi there are just so many people and bikes everywhere, it's noisy, smelly and polluted, but of all the ...
Vientiane to Hanoi
... felt obliged to take over my seat. He also ate like a horse. I hated my introduction to Vietnamese people. My arrival into Hanoi airport was a lot better, despite me being 90% deaf. I was so relieved that I was not interrogated at customs because I ...
Dragon Bay & Dodgy Driving
Having learnt our lesson in Japan we are in very good time for our Vietnam Airlines flight today (how grown up!). Arriving in Hanoi, we are immediately approached by a smooth talking guy offering us a taxi to the city centre an hour away - after a ...
SAME SAME BUT BETTER
... we went off to sleep in what turned out to be the No Star Hotel. After another day in Halong, we returned to Hanoi. Because our time in Vietnam is relatively short, we are trying to do one of those whirlwind, see everything in two weeks, if it's ...
Hill tribe markets and the capital city
... like a hoe or a $10 pig, that they all but ignore you & you don't experience the selling pressure you often receive in N.Vietnam. The markets are phenomenally colourful & the people are fantastic. They do their thing & you can do yours. I think I took ...
Last Day in Hanoi
... took up most of my afternoon before re-joining the tour group at the hotel for yet another train ride from Hanoi to Hue (central Vietnam). Strange enough I felt like this train ride. But the train was awful. I shared my compartment with Kenny, Bo ...
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 ...
Hustlers in Hanoi
... going to nice new homes when I remembered about 'Dog Alley’! This is a 1km stretch of restaurants in the outskirts of Hanoi all serving dog meat! Surely they don’t eat puppies? What kind of a sick person could eat puppies? Seriously! I know ...
Good Morning Viet...Oh, Ripped Off Already!
Rolling into Hekou on the China Vietnam border I had a couple of hours to waste before the border would open, actually had to double check the time due to the 1 hour time difference between the two sides - China really needs more than one time zone. As ...
Hello from vietnam everyone! arn here ...
... of nights in a very, very nice hotel only venturing out a couple of times so that we could slowly acclimate ourselves. So far Vietnam is very nice and clean, especially in comparison to Laos. And it's very orderly ... except for the traffic which is ...
