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Travel Blogs from Hanoi, Vietnam

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Snake blood juice, South to North, Vietnam travel blog

Snake blood juice

A travel blog entry by lucky

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

Back in Hanoi - Cooking up a feast....

A travel blog entry by mikeandmarisha

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... 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 ...

Back to Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Back to Hanoi

A travel blog entry by djchurch

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Nothing. ...

Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Hanoi

A travel blog entry by roadtrip

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Vietnam in Retrospect

A travel blog entry by faff

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

Stuck in Hanoi...

A travel blog entry by worldofbintang

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Hiding in airports

A travel blog entry by mattmcshane

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

Leaving Vietnam...Hello India...

A travel blog entry by nicandpete

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... 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 ...

Air Asia to Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Air Asia to Hanoi

A travel blog entry by canaussie

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Air Asia to Hanoi from Bangkok to catch plane to Hiroshima via ...

From phnom penh remo and i went on the ..., The South, Vietnam travel blog

From phnom penh remo and i went on the ...

A travel blog entry by rebecca.jacob

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... - 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..., Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

One more for the road...

A travel blog entry by rebn

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Back in 'Nam

A travel blog entry by kris

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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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Chew, chew train

A travel blog entry by pidgeandpie

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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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Vietnam auf Deutsch

A travel blog entry by faff

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Hanoi

A travel blog entry by roundtheworld

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... 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 ...

Good Morning Vietnam!, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Good Morning Vietnam!

A travel blog entry by pidgeandpie

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Life is a box of Vietnamese Spring ...

Ho Chi DVD, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Ho Chi DVD

A travel blog entry by stevejames

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The Royal Minsk, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

The Royal Minsk

A travel blog entry by pidgeandpie

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... 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 ...

Sinister, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Sinister

A travel blog entry by stevejames

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Post Hate, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Post Hate

A travel blog entry by stevejames

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Hue to go, Hue and Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Hue to go

A travel blog entry by uncle_davros

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Day 1/2 of Tour

A travel blog entry by shanewilson

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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, Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Kim

A travel blog entry by arewethere.yet

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... (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 ...

Overnight sleeper train, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Overnight sleeper train

A travel blog entry by canaussie

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It's not right, I don't get it..., Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

It's not right, I don't get it...

A travel blog entry by benandtrudie

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Vietnam

A travel blog entry by siandcath

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Hatred

A travel blog entry by bonkers

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... 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 ...

Jaaping Away, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Jaaping Away

A travel blog entry by stevejames

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Motorbikes, noodle soup and Halong Bay, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Motorbikes, noodle soup and Halong Bay

A travel blog entry by mightylongway

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... 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, Hanoi, Vietnam travel blog

Hanoi and Halong Bay

A travel blog entry by jonnyandjanette

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... 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.  ...

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