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HANOI, North Vietnam
... walked into ours too. What a warm feeling.
Then the long drive back to the hotel. We had about an hour to ourselves where we jumped into a taxi and went into the old quarter of Hanoi. All kinds of action going on. WE had taken a rickshaw (cyclo) ride the night before, through all kinds of traffic, motor bikes and cars, buses and trucks breezing by us at high speeds. It was a thrill ride for sure. This quarter has streets called ...
Hanoi-ed with the timing
... cut, my only experience of note comes through an exchange with a travel agency.
Asking how much train tickets to China are, I'm quoted $55. After stating that I've heard they're around $30 at the station, the saleswoman begins explaining how the station doesn't sell tickets. She persists with the ideal that all the tickets are held by travel agencies. So in order to ...
Good Morning Vietnam
... our luggage and meet us at the train station (and give the bus driver a tip). Still hurtling through the streets at 10.55pm, we screeched up outside the train station, grabbed our luggage, stuffed some money into various people's hands and jumped on the train as it was pulling away accompanied by some smiling faces from some tourists already aboard. Hooray! We settled into our shelves, it would be wrong to call them beds, and had a good night's sleep.
Morning came and we ...
Ha Long Bay
Sunday Yesterday (saturday) was a day of setting up the schedule for the rest of the trip. As I said in the last update we set up the Ha Long bay trip and the Cuc Phoumg National park trips. I picked the Bay and Silvern Picked the park. Bill decided on his portion to fly to The Capital of Laos. So we worked for hours trying to buy tickets over the Internet. Finally he said Uncle and we had the hotel book our flights so we end the ...
A friendly welcome to Vietnam
... There were building works going on next door so she had booked us into a hotel across the road at the same price as the guesthouse. The most comfortable nights sleep of the trip so far. Hanoi is the most hectic city I have ever seen. The sheer amount of mopeds on the road with the lack of road rules just leads to carnage, but somehow there doesn't seem to be any accidents, everybody snaking round each other. Crossing the road is a brave decision, once you go you cannot ...


