Bonjour Vietnam Hotel Hanoi

... inside. It was incredibly cramped; I was on the back seat, evidently made for only three people but I had a Russian couple to my left, and a fidgety Vietnamese man to my right. We waited ten minutes to fill up with more passengers, then set off. Little did I realise at this point that it was to be the start of a rather hideous journey...

No sooner had we left the airport compound for ten minutes than we encountered rather a lot of traffic. Standard, I thought. However ...

... we can all learn from other cultures and use it to see ours with fresh eyes. Much like the anthropological idea that we can only truly begin to undertsand our own culture when we have got to know others.

The schools in Vietnam are much stricter, there is no accomodating special needs. for example in school if you are left handed you would get wacked on the hand and told to change (sorry K!), the class sizes are big (40-60) and creativity is promoted less. Despite this they ...

And what a weird welcome it was, but more of that in a moment.... Let me tell you first about the journey here. As you know, I had to stop off for a night in Nanning, in China. Well, I knew I wasn't going to see the best of the town as I was staying in a hotel near the station, but oh my god, it was sleazy! I can honestly say this is the first time I've stayed in a hotel that rents rooms by the hour (there was a sign out front advertising this fact), not ...

... to go outside so I ran out to go and fetch Mei. He didn't know what had happened as none of the tourists did. The police had cordoned off the road but there was no screen up for dignity. Electricians are not given any safety equipment or even earthed and accidents like this happen a couple of times a year and we were told the victims family would only receive $300 for his life. Mei and I were a bit shaken up so we went back to the hotel. Fortunately back at ...

... sat down, given a complimentary drink and a hard sale for a Halong Bay tour. Things certainly weren’t as relaxed as the South of the country. Over the next three days we were subjected to all manner of hard pressure sales tactics, touting and general scamming. From taxi drivers with extremely fast running meters to every other café adding the bill up incorrectly to constant short changing, we found the people of Hanoi far ...

... So my overweight bag and I drug onto the plane.
This was a rather uneventful 13hr flight except for the armload of power naps I took coupled with the 4 movies I watched and snippets of other ones I took in. Having extra leg room on China Air was nice although there was very little elbow room so I had to tuck my elbows in tight to eat or fear getting a fork jabbed into them from my fellow seat mates on the right and left of me. The ...

... need to lease cars for at least
two years. We are also working with various hotels on leasing cars for
their airport-transfer services. While nothing has been inked as yet,
things are looking very positive for this potential partnership."



Brun expected the company's chauffeur-drive service to do well in
Hanoi, where road conditions and driving regulations make self-drive
difficult.



Hanoi, Ha Nội, Vietnam stubbornchirpy

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... as much as our over night sleeper bus tickets. Quick thinking Emma White went to the hostel and got someone from reception to come check it out. When the driver saw her coming over suddenly he turned the meter off and was confused as to where exactly we'd got into the taxi at. We stuck to our guns and paid him a more appropraite price. Fail taxi. When we got to the hostel it was still not even 9am, even though the bus was actually late. We had a nap and tried to ...

... of my trip or else I would be coming home with a kid! We ended our motorcycle tour in a town called Hoi An. The town consists of guest houses, restaurants and tailors and thats it! We had to stay there for a couple days because we were waiting for Pam and her sister Taryn to meet up with us. We did the only thing there was to do.... we got clothes made! my backpack already weighed a ton so I ended up sending home a box weighing 8.5Kg and my bag is STILL ...