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It's cold!
Well looks like I won't be seeing the sun for a while. Have had to pull out a jumper now and it seems that the Northern part of Vietnam is going to be a lot colder and I'll have to give up the shorts and t-shirt for a while. I think February/March is about the worst time to visit but there's not much that I can do about that.
The bus only …
Sun finally came out for the cruise back
The sun finally made an appearance and the cruise back from Cat Ba through Ha Long Bay was incredible. Sat on the top of the boat for the 4 hours journey back and just enjoyed the sun and the view, it was brilliant.
Back to Hanoi the rice paddies were full of people in the iconic Vietnamese conical hats working the fields and apart from …
Sapa-Hanoi
... hij uiteindelijk opstond zag ik tot mijn grote schrik dat het wel een harige trol leek; oude vieze bruine ribbroek, overal haar op zijn lijf en geitenwollensokken in zn sandalen.... 1 ding, ik zou mijn bed niet verlaten in mijn nachthemdje zolang dit beest hier rondliep! Ik had al besloten dat ik hier sowieso niet nog 1 nacht door zou brengen.. Maar toen ik naar buiten keek, was de mist nog net zo dicht als gister, nog net zo koud (15 graden) en heb ik mijn 2e ...
Hanoi Day 2 - Culture and surviving traffic!
Our second day in Hanoi was definitely more eventful than our first where we were travel weary and caught between excitement and wanting to sleep for a day straight. Note: I am writing this as we are hustling to pack and enjoy breakfast with our new acquaintance Wanda. The day was definitely jam packed and not fully detailed in this posting. We started off our morning by enjoying the best "continental" breakfast I have ever had (I think Zeigs will ...
Mental, mental Hanoi!
... our first encounter with the violent history of Vietnam. This country has gone through a lot of wars and conflict and until not that long ago. Hanoi Hilton was also our first glimpse of what museums in Vietnam are like: propaganda-heavy. If you want to be properly informed then you have to do some research before or after because all the literature at the museums is very...one-sided, to say the least. Furthermore, they obviously ...