Hanoi
Travel Blogs from Hanoi, Vietnam
Friendship Pass and Hanoi, Part I
... at 8am this morning to getting to Hanoi it was about 8 hours, 9 if you count the time difference between Vietnam and China. Hanoi. It's been a while Hanoi, capital of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, has shaken off its unwelcoming attitude to ...
Goooooood Morning Vietnam!
Ok, no time to write now, but you faithful readers know we are good on our word that we will write very shortly. We'll get you those photos of Bangkok, as well as some from Vietnam. peace. ...
Back to Hanoi, via the caves
... . Some of the views looked almost space like. Well worth the visit. Then it was off to get the bus back to Hanoi, with a pit stop at a handicapped workshop for some lunch. This is where families that have been affected by Agent Orange during the ...
Completely Un-Hanoid
... the puppets were well worth the £2 entrance fee, definitely something never seen before. At the end of the day, we both agreed Hanoi was a brilliant city, and we could happily have spent longer there. I like that there’s loads to do in such ...
From dalat it was another long bus ride ...
From Dalat, it was another long bus ride through the mountains to the beaches of Central Vietnam. In Nha Trang, I went on Mama Hanh's famous booze cruise where I met soooooo many good people, one in particular. We chilled on the beach for a few days, ...
Hanoi
... are looking up, we got through the Christmas period and even managed to get a Christmas lunch. I was wondering what to write about Hanoi as it is a beautiful city etc but I seem to say that about most places then it struck me that the most interesting ...
On a hi !
... odds with the country's peasant-worker communist state ideals, but so far it is managing the transition to rampant capitalism quite well. Hanoi has a very welcoming feel to it, and is certainly our favourite city in SE Asia so far. We had a couple of ...
Onwards to the capital of Vietnam....
... also very shrewd at business and it is a little more difficult to try and haggle with someone here than it is elsewhere in Vietnam. After a day exploring the sites we booked ourselves on a cooking course and also a trip to Halong bay. One thing ...
Vietnam - Hanoi
... on we encountered a whole list of problems. Now, we could fill an entire Travelpod with the hassles we came across in Hanoi and the rest of Vietnam but we'll try and make it brief! The hotel we had booked before arriving in Vietnam turned out to ...
Back in Hanoi
... rotten teeth. I joined Kenny and Hannah for a drinking session at Funky Monkey... one of the more popular hangouts here in Hanoi. A great bar, very relaxing with 'funky???' music. Drinking here is very cheap, with beers costing a ridiculous $2 or ...
Good Morning Vietnam
... ) and Halong Bay (Karst hills plus water) on a boat. Go with Explorer Travel and leave tomorrow but will come back to Hanoi after. After dinner and welcome glass of wine drift off to sleep in our double bed watching BBC News 24 - could almost be at ...
Ethnology Museum and Temple of Literature
Hanoi was a crazy couple of days. I will state once again that the city is insane and makes its visitors feel the same. We really wanted to see the Ethnology Museum, which is quite far from the city center. So we had to rent a ...
"Some day we'll all look back on this and laugh"
... . After working through our third breakdown and winding through the mountains we stopped off for breakfast and our first meal in Vietnam, though we were a little too tired and a little too wary of the toilet situation over the next several hours to enjoy ...
flashbacks from 'Nam
... skin). Back in town we checked out the market but it was mostly stuff for locals. I never could find a magnet throughout Vietnam. There was a popcorn seller roaming the streets and his cart would play various Christmas songs (I thought this a little odd ...
Hoi An & Hanoi - Day 116-117
... and folklore. A traditional live band accompanies the the visual show. Really impressive art-form. The puppeteers in Hanoi are suppose to be the best in Vietnam. Really enjoyed the show even though I didn't understand a word being said, but you can get ...
Erin sees all the pickled communists
... nbsp; Finally we went to the Museum of Ethnology, a fine collection that succeeds in illuminating the minority cultures of Vietnam. There are loads of artifacts and several videos, along with descriptions of each group, where it ...
The moto revolution
... ; We've heard a lot of negative reports from travellers about Hanoi. True, its hard to like on the surface. Vietnam, like many other Asian countries, is almost drowning in motorbikes. Hanoi has almost 3 million of them. There are ...
Wandering the streets again....
... exciting) and then to the Temple of Literature. This was lovely and very well kept and was the first university in Vietnam with obligatory temple and lots of stone turtles around (a symbol of long life). Having completed our cultural duties for the ...
Feeling Like A Million Dong
Hi Everybody, Now that Spring Break in Laos is over, we've been roughing it here in Vietnam. After a cush flight from Vientiane, Laos on Vietnam Airlines - the lesser of two flying evils, the other being Lao Aviation - into Hanoi, we were whisked ...
Exploring Old Quarter Hanoi
Had a lie in and fantastic french bread with butter and jam and a coffee (feels weird doing this in Vietnam but they sell french bread and cakes everywhere). Decide to just wander today so virtually walk through every street in Old Quarter seeing ...
Conspiracy Theory
... thought along those lines - I don't think the Americans really knew what they were letting themselves in for when they attacked Vietnam did they? These guys have sucessively defeated the Chinese, the French, the British Royal Marines, the US and all other ...
The Bus Ride
I have finally made it to Hanoi. What an freaking epic that was! First I got on the bus from Vientiane at 6pm, we got 3 hours down the road and the bus broke down. After people getting choked at the driver that no contingency plan was in place, I ...
Meeting Ho
EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT Greetings all you chook lovers from downtown Hanoi. Shock horror but Anal and I just couldn't keep up with the Ab Fab girls and their Bollie Stollies so we just had to lose them for the time being. But wait there is ...
Vietnam Tour of Duty: Hanoi to the DMZ
... rules, driving in Hanoi is not as dangerous as it looks at first glance, and even can be fun. Motorbikes are the backbone of Vietnam's transport sector; there's nothing you can't strap on to one. Things I saw on a motorbike: - a cage with dozens of ...
