Hanoi
Travel Blogs from Hanoi, Vietnam
Snake blood juice
... Train Hue was a quick stop over. Once the DMZ tour was firmly checked off our to-do list, we left for Hanoi, the northern capital of Vietnam. Linda had already bought a bus ticket to Hanoi. I had been reading Tim's book in which the Reunification ...
Back in Hanoi - Cooking up a feast....
... you couldn't notice the difference. Besides we needed another day sack for going on our trek when we arrive in Laos. Vietnam is a great country to visit with lots of sights to see and many a bargain to be had. The people are warm ...
Hanoi
... how beautiful Halong Bay is so I thought I'd check it out. I also sorted out most of my transport for Vietnam. For $20 I had 4 bus journeys starting Hanoi and ending in Ho Chi Minh City, that stops are fixed but the dates are completely flexible. Compared ...
Vietnam in Retrospect
... from the coffee you come to expect but it really grows on you to the point at which nothing else will do. Vietnam has some beautiful countryside from the mountains and rice terraces to the north to the rolling hills and plains of central Vietnam to ...
Stuck in Hanoi...
... outside restaurants over the last couple of days we gave the dog a miss but the pig and goat were very tasty!! Vietnam has been a really interesting experience, especially as so little English is spoken here, but having collected my Chinese visa I have ...
Hiding in airports
... airport baggage claim area, but sadly this was what we had to do. Because of our time-scale, we caught a flight from HCMC upto Hanoi, Vietnam's second biggest city. It was on this flight Jo and I sat next to a really nice man flying home. Like most ...
Leaving Vietnam...Hello India...
... to India for a month. We are very excited and somewhat nervous, at the same time...More about India to come... As for Vietnam, our last stop was Hanoi, the capital of the country. Hanoi was great, like other parts of the country. I have to say, I have ...
From phnom penh remo and i went on the ...
... - and a bad hangover from a night out in PP. While enduring this, Remo asked if it would be green over in Vietnam. - Stupid question, I said. Why should it be different from this desert just because of that line between two countries? It's the same ...
One more for the road...
... peanuts while generally bull-shiting. It's a pleasant change from sitting in a smoke filled bar. The food in Hanoi has been the best I've had in Vietnam. Period. I just can't seem to go wrong! My last culinary discovery was in the coffee department. ...
Back in 'Nam
i resisted the "good morning Vietnam" title.. the bus arrived a few klicks outa town.. The price of 60,000 was shared between two rasta backpackers from Norway to the downtown hotel district of Hanoi.. The hostel is the classic busy, party, Lonely Planet, ...
Chew, chew train
No rest for us today as we were up for breakfast and then about town in order to take the Minsk back a day early. We also wanted to try and book last minute train tickets for this evenings overnight train journey to Hue. Luckily we were successful and ...
Vietnam auf Deutsch
... eingeladen, waren interessiert und Dave hat fuer Stunden mit ihnen Musik gemacht. Mein persoenliches Highlight von Vietnam ist der Norden. "Hanoi" ist interessant und mit viel zu engen Strassen fuer all die Mopeds, Fahrraeder und Fussgaenger scheint ...
Hanoi
... to smoke a big water pipe that looked like a didgerido. And yes, it was tobacco, thanks for asking. Dinner out at Little Hanoi restaurant...in the book, so all 'travellers' and they have expanded to 3 places, but still good and cheap. The next day ...
The Royal Minsk
... both hands and jump of the nearest cliff! In other words we wanted to do our own thing, get away from the confines associated with tourist organisations and get out there and see the real Vietnam for ourselves (read on to find out what happened ...
Hue to go
... second class hard sleeper. She removed us again. Soft seats maybe, but no, she got us hard second class seat for the journey to Hanoi. Why ??? God only knows, so we celebrated at Apocalypse Now number two. Next day, we did the DMZ tour. It did sound good, ...
Day 1/2 of Tour
I have now begun my 21 day organised tour through Vietnam, from north to south. At 6pm, we had our introductory meeting and were introduced to our Vietnamese guide, Anh. He speaks fairly good English - I'm very glad to have a local guide. The group ...
Kim
... (Vietnamese people are just not afraid to die). True...extremely true if one tries to analyze the driving techniques in Vietnam. Crossing a street in Cambodia was unsafe; here it is facing too many fears. Not only is the driving ...
It's not right, I don't get it...
... slow and uncomfy. We're soon back in Hanoi at the Hanoi guesthouse (at NZ$14 per night including breakfast!) We don't know about Vietnam. It is very weird, soooo many people and the roads are chaos! Total chaos, we thought that we'd seem chaos in Thailand ...
Vietnam
... turned out to be alright, and when not dodging bags flying out the windows, the view was at times spectacular. We got into Hanoi and decided that we were entitled to a treat. We checked ourselves into the Veit Ahn Hotel (3 stars) which turned out to ...
Hatred
... almost every day of your existance here - and there's not a goddamn thing you can do about it! The best thing about being in Vietnam is knowing you can leave. Raul - I'm always a man to find out things for myself, but I wish I'd taken your advice and ...
Motorbikes, noodle soup and Halong Bay
... and started an altercation in the middle of a highway), all precariously balanced on the back of a bicycle. Shopping in Hanoi seems a bit different - first you need to find the relevant street (book street, lantern street, paint street, tombstone ...
Hanoi and Halong Bay
... a cool to see. We decided to go to the Temple of Literature which was the first university in Vietnam. We didn’t realise that half of Hanoi also decided to go to the Temple Of Literature to offer money and incense to the gods. ...
