Democracy Hotel Hanoi
64 Cau Go St, Hoan Kiem district Hanoi, 00844, Vietnam
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Super Bowl Sunday On Monday in Hanoi
I can't believe I am in Hanoi! Actually, I can't see much because my eyes are so watery. I can't even read the maps to find my way around the city, mostly doing it trial and error. My conjunctivitis is raging. According to what I found on the internet I've got about 3 to 5 more days of this. Just in time to go home. So, it was really weird, but I …
A Pocket Full of Motorbikes and Water Puppets
SUP BLOG-DOGS!!! It has been a fair while since our last post: 8 days thereabouts, which I find reasonable to deem a fair while, though some might argue otherwise, simply for the point of being quarrelsome. Nevertheless, to us it has been a fair while, in which a fair amount of highly enjoyable, though at times dubious, occurences have either been …
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... Well, the surprise about the Perfume Pagoda is that it is a cave. The guide explained to us about the cave - how the king about a thousand years ago saw this cave and pictured it as a dragon's head, and demanded that it become a pagoda. There are several formations of stalactites that are seen to represent something meaningful, such as Lady Buddha, or piles of rice, and as the dragon is the most sacred animal in Vietnam, this site really is very sacred ...
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... when relations between Vietnam and China was not smooth, only tourists from Eastern European countries could visit Halong bay, up until mid 1990s the number of visitors coming to Halong Bay soared drastically. Halong bay cruises at that time were pretty confused, most boats were small and lacked safety equipments and Halong Bay tours were limited to a few hours boat ride in the ...



