Camellia Hotel 3 Hanoi

Travel Blogs from Hanoi

From the serentiy of Laos to the madness of Hanoi

A travel blog entry by amyandtom

13th October

We woke at 5am to complete darkness and quickly packed our things. Our coach left at 6.30 from a station twenty minutes drive outside of town. We had no problems with tuk tuks during the day but I was unsure of their working hours and it seemed the whole town was still asleep. We woke the reception boy to pay our bill (though …

Hanoi, the first go around

A travel blog entry by gscoombe

I've neglected the blog for awhile and have 3 entries to catch up on so I'll have to make this brief. Hanoi was one of my favorite cities so far, I've definetly enjoyed northern Vietnam more than the south. Hanoi is a big city but far less westernized that Saigon. There arent as many of the huge 6 lane roads as in Saigon and everything seems much …

Prisons, Propaganda, & Pedicures

A travel blog entry by sql_spice

Yesterday was our 13th wedding anniversary- happy Lucky 13 to us! The 1st anniversary is "paper," the 25th is "silver," the 30th is "rubies"...bet you didn't know that 13th is "Prisons and Corpses." (well at least I say it is.) So to commemorate, we hopped an early taxi to Ho Chi Minh's tomb. Ho Chi Minh is the de factor "Father of Vietnam," …

Back to Hanoi

A travel blog entry by annek

After Cat Ba I went back to Hanoi for one night before flying to Bangkok the next day. I arrived in Hanoi in the afternoon and did some of my Christmas shopping, and then in the evening Tu picked me up and took me out to have dinner with friends from work, many of whom I had met at the baby's birthday party last time I was in Hanoi. We had a really …

Hanoi

A travel blog entry by annek

Gabriela and I spent a long, boring day in Hue en route from Hoi An to Hanoi. We thought it seemed like a good idea to break up the journey by taking the early morning short bus journey from Hoi An to Hue, so that we could spend the day there before heading up to Hanoi on the night bus, but the rain saw off our enthusiasm for exploring Hue, so we …